DUTCH thugs woke up the entire Spurs team at 3am today ahead of their crunch Champions League semi-final second leg tie tonight. A dramatic firework display could be heard from miles around the Tottenham base in Amsterdam. A club official told The Sun: “I was staying in a different hotel and the fireworks woke me […]
DUTCH thugs woke up the entire Spurs team at 3am today ahead of their crunch Champions League semi-final second leg tie tonight.
A dramatic firework display could be heard from miles around the Tottenham base in Amsterdam.
A club official told The Sun: “I was staying in a different hotel and the fireworks woke me up.
“They were deafening. Ajax fans are clearly rattled trying to disrupt the Spurs players like this.”
Ajax’s feared ‘ultras’ crept up on the city’s Van Der Vik Hotel in the south of the city for the fireworks blitz.
A fan staying there said: “It was impossible not to be awoken by the display. In the dead of night it sounded like bombs going off for five minutes.”
Ajax ultras were planning a ‘welcoming party’ for the Spurs die-hard fans in Amsterdam before kick-off.
The ‘entrada’ has been organised by Ajax’s ‘F-side’ fans – and a similar rally before a previous fixture had to be broken up by police water cannon, with over 100 arrests.
Last night as Tottenham supporters arrived in Amsterdam there was little sign of trouble, with hordes of fans watching Liverpool’s dramatic win over Barcelona in crowded bars.
Dutch fans carried out the same stunt ahead of Ajax’s earlier Champions League home games against Juventus and Real Madrid.
But police are breached for serious trouble in Amsterdam as 20,000 Spurs fans descend on the city.
At least nine arrests were made before the first-leg of the semi-final, when Ajax ran out 1-0 winners.
Footage posted on Twitter shows fans squaring up to each other as glass bottles and other objects are lobbed at each other.
The short clip was filmed on Tottenham High Road, close to Spurs’ Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.
Before the game the Dutch supporters lit flares and climbed scaffolding in Leicester Square.
Police made 140 arrests in Amsterdam before Ajax’s game against Juventus earlier in the competition.
Initial statements said “dozens” of fans had been detained in the hours before the tie, and items including batons, flagpoles and a hammer were discovered.
Later, officers picked up 46 suspects at the metro station before 61 more were arrested at the ground.
Police say investigations into the trouble continue.
