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    Angry Huracan fans demand life bans for officials

    Reuters

    Thursday, July 9, 2009

    Hundreds of Huracan fans demonstrated outside Argentine Football Association headquarters on Wednesday to demand life bans for the officials of Sunday's title decider, which their team lost 1-0 to Velez Sarsfield. The fans, some wearing the club's white and red colours and carrying banners, called for referee Gabriel Brazenas and linesman Ricardo Casas to be suspended for life. Hard core supporters aimed fireworks at police manning barricades, raising the spectre of violence though it did not ...

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