PEC already had to deal with serious football riots 100 years ago: ‘It’s a wonder there were no deaths’

An old fashioned lynching. This is what the first major football field battle in the Netherlands is called, which started on December 19, 1926 in IJsselmuiden, escalated in Kampen and ended in Zwolle. About how things could go so wrong that day – with PEC in the leading role at the time – and why exactly there. “It’s a miracle there were no deaths.”

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