Den engelska kulissen del 2

Uppenbarligen ville några City-anhängare i den engelska passpolisen försvaga CSKA:s chanser redan före matchen i kväll. Så de såg till att CSKA:s serbiske spelare Tosic inte kunde vara med och förbjöd honom dessutom att åka från London till Manchester. Otroligt men så är också England ett land av kulisser. Detta nedan är hämtat från The Guardians direktrapportering.

“The Russian press is going mad because he has supposedly had his passport seized after arriving in the UK on a transit visa, which gives him 48 hours in the country, instead of on a work visa.” That’s right, Jennifer, Tosic is not playing and here is the explanation provided by CSKA’s sporting director, Roman Babaev. I don’t have time to look any further into it at the moment:

Initially there was a discrepancy and he was issued not a tourist visa, but a transit visa.

The English consulate advised that Serbs do not really need a tourist visa, they may arrive as transit passengers without a visa and it is issued on the spot.

Nevertheless, the transit visa was issued, so he had the right to stay in the UK for 48 hours, that is enough.

But the English border guards showed some over-adherence to the rules and found on the internet that he is a CSKA player, and felt that he had come to England to work.

They demanded a wok visa, which is impossible and unacceptable. After a long time of wrangling, he was admitted to the country because they had no right not to (let him in), as he had a visa. However, they seized his passport, which is also the first time in our experience that a passport of a citizen of another country has been confiscated.

‘The English migration service has received several requests from the Serbian consulate in England and the Russian embassy in England. They considered the matter at length and in the end, not only did he not go to the match, he was even forbidden to be a spectator at the stadium and they demanded that he leave the territory of Manchester before the match.

Will we submit a protest? English people still can’t calm down, but, I think there is already no sense in it, because it already won’t
affect the result, but it’s not very pleasant. I am sure that this would not have happened in any other European country.