CRUYFF ROUGH

Ajax's decision not to offer Johan Cruyff a new contract at the end of the 1982-3 season would backfire on the Dutch club. The three-time Ballon d'Or winner was so incensed at the decision that he joined arch-rivals Feyenoord and led the Dutch club to the national "Double", including their first league title for a decade. The Dutch "master" played his last match on this day (May13th) in 1984, a win over PEC Zwolle.

In 1990 things went a little further than Cruyff's feud with Ajax when Dinamo Zagreb met Red Star Belgrade, sparking a mass riot that was symbolically seen a the first act of the Croation War of independence! At the time Yugoslavia was on the verge of political and economic collapse and the match became highly politicised, with the police making no attempts to quell the beginning of a brawl which soon spilled on to the pitch and would rage for 70 minutes.

The Dinamo Zagreb–Red Star Belgrade riot was a riot., which took place on 13 May 1990 at  the Maksimir Stadium in Zagreb, SR Croatia, then part of SFR Yugoslavia, between the Bard Blue Boys (supporters of Dinamo Zagreb) and the Delije (supporters of RS Belgrade). The incident took place just weeks after Croatia's first multi-party elections) in almost fifty years in which the parties favouring Croatian Independence had won the majority of votes. The riot resulted in over sixty people wounded, including some stabbed, shot or poisoned by tear gas.