Rotterdam’s mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has said banishing flares from football matches is an almost impossible task because fans smuggled the explosives into the stadium in “intimate parts” of their body. The Dutch cup final on Sunday was twice suspended after fans of the two clubs, Feyenoord and NEC Nijmegen, set off fireworks and flares in Rotterdam’s De Kuip stadium. Referee Serdar Gözübüyük called the players off the pitch after 13 minutes after thick clouds of smoke billowed across the pitch Read this story
