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Tottenham fined for Europa League pitch invasions

December 12, 2014 08:48 IST
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Tottenham Hotspur have been fined 15,000 euros ($18,600) by UEFA after their Europa League game against Partizan Belgrade last month was suspended for several minutes following three separate pitch invasions, the governing body said on Thursday.

Image: A pitch invader tries to take a 'selfie' with Erik Lamela of Tottenham Hotspur during the UEFA Europa League Group C match between Spurs and FK Partizan at White Hart Lane in LondonUkrainian referee Yevhen Aranovskiy took the players off the field after 38 minutes of the Group C game on November 27.

Police arrested the three pitch invaders who appeared to be wearing identical branded T-shirts, bearing the logo of a headphone manufacturer, which later on Twitter condemned what had happened.

A video posted online showed three men talking about invading the pitch ahead of the match.($1 = 0.8070 Euros)

Image: A pitch invader tries to take a 'selfie' with Erik Lamela of Tottenham Hotspur during the UEFA Europa League Group C match between Spurs and FK Partizan at White Hart Lane in London.

Photograph: Ian Walton/Getty Images

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