We’re not going to blame you for not knowing that Serbia played Albania today for a shot at entering the Euro 2016 tournament. You should know, however, that the game was cancelled before halftime for the following reasons:
• Flares. If you watch any soccer at all, you know that the two things European soccer hooligans don’t leave home without are their friends and flares. Flares seem to be pretty much the best things about most Eastern European soccer matches anyway.
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• A Drone carrying an “Albanian Nationalist Flag” flew onto the field. Honestly, this is awesome. Forgetting for a brief moment that the flag was likely racist (Serbia and Albania have a bad track record with this sort of thing) or nationalist, this drone interruption is amazing. It was only a matter of time before someone pulled a prank like this. The only way this could improve would be to add flares to it.
• A fight. So when a Serbian player tried to pull down the flag, of course an Albania player started a fight. Annnnnd cue riots. And chairs.
