{"id":3581,"date":"2018-08-24T11:01:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:01:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2018-08-24T11:01:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T07:01:18","slug":"burnley-fan-stabbed-outside-olympiakos-stadium-at-europa-league-qualifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/2018\/08\/24\/burnley-fan-stabbed-outside-olympiakos-stadium-at-europa-league-qualifier\/","title":{"rendered":"Burnley fan stabbed outside Olympiakos&#8217; stadium at Europa League qualifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Burnley fan was stabbed, and four others injured, outside the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium ahead of the club&#8217;s Europa League tie at Olympiakos.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>More than 900 Clarets supporters attended the qualifying play-off first leg in Piraeus, Athens, which saw\u00a0Sean Dyche&#8217;s side lose 3-1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The vast majority were once again impeccably behaved with the coaching operation to transport supporters to the ground put in place by the club again a great success, as it was in the previous round in Istanbul,&#8221; the club said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>But Burnley confirmed one supporter received a stab wound to the leg and received medical treatment at the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Those injured had all travelled independently to the ground, rather than using Burnley&#8217;s organised travel, the club said.<\/p>\n<p>Burnley said they were working closely with Olympiakos and local police to investigate the incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Dyche&#8217;s side were unbeaten in their first European venture in 61 years prior to the game, having beat Istanbul Basaksehir and Scottish Premiership runners-up Aberdeen in extra-time in the previous qualifying rounds.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg against Olympiakos will take place at Turf Moor on Thursday, August 30 at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Skysports<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__misc-container\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Burnley fan was stabbed, and four others injured, outside the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium ahead of the club&#8217;s Europa League tie at Olympiakos. More than 900 Clarets supporters attended the qualifying play-off first leg in Piraeus, Athens, which saw\u00a0Sean Dyche&#8217;s side lose 3-1. &#8220;The vast majority were once again impeccably behaved with the coaching operation &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3582,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uaebarq.ae\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}