Thousands of English soccer fans who thronged the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, England, for the FA up final Saturday observed a one-minute silence in memory of hanaian fans who died in a crowd crush in Accra on Wednesday.
"World of football unites in mourning," said a commentator fter the observance, which occurred shortly before the onset of he match between Arsenal and Liverpool.
The death of more than 120 fans at the Accra stadium, ollowing a stampede during a match between arch-rivals Accra earts of Oak and the Kumasi-based Asante Kotoko, has attracted orld-wide sympathy.
The police, who fired several canisters of tear gas into the rowd after Asante Kotoko ripped plastic chairs which they threw nto the field, have been widely blamed for the tradegy.
