Turkey – Football Fan Gets Stadium Ban, Hires Hydraulic Crane To See Match (Video)

A while ago I wrote an article about tensions and passion in Greece running high when it comes to local derby matches (when the President of Thessaloniki entered the match with a loaded gun, see our related coverage). This time around we go to the neighbouring country Turkey where local derby matches are considered religiously significant.

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And thus, when die-hard fan Mr Ali Demirkaya was banned from the stadium of Denizlispor for a year, he had to come up with an original idea to see his favourite sports team take on Gaziantepspor.

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Mr Demirkaya: "That match was very important for our team (Denizlispor). I had to go to the police station to sign a paper to show that I am not watching the match in the stadium. Then I quickly went to rent the crane."

"I paid 354 liras ($85) for the rent. I started watching but police officers didn't allow me to watch until the end."

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In Turkey, a <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Denizlispor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Denizlispor</a> fan who was banned from the stadium for 12 months, hired a crane to watch his team play this weekend!<br><br>Nothing but passion. 👀 <a href="https://t.co/KNyyQuLbmF">pic.twitter.com/KNyyQuLbmF</a></p>&mdash; SportyBet Nigeria (@sportybetng) <a href="https://twitter.com/sportybetng/status/990907175731154949?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Videos posted online show Mr Demirkaya cheering on Denizlispor on while atop a crane he had rented as fans inside the Denizli Atatürk Stadium cheered down below and applauded their colleague for not wanting to miss the excitement of the game.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A football fun buys crane to watch his team&#39;s match after he was banned from entering the stadium. Funny things happen in Turkey 🤣<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Turkey?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Turkey</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Football?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Football</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Denizlispor?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Denizlispor</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Denizli?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Denizli</a> <a href="https://t.co/RFREKKDyBY">pic.twitter.com/RFREKKDyBY</a></p>&mdash; Abdinor Dahir (@Abdinordahir) <a href="https://twitter.com/Abdinordahir/status/990877220687220736?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 30, 2018</a></blockquote>

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Mr Demirkaya was happy afterward as Denizlispor won the match against Gaziantepspor 5-0.

Source:

http://www.ladbible.com/community/sport-awesome-football-fan-hires-crane-after-he-receives-a-stadium-ban-20180429