Tunisia's Etoile Sahel were kicked out of the 2012 CAF Champions League on Monday after two pitch invasions during a home fixture against fellow Tunisians Esperance this month.

A statement from the Cairo-based African football governing body said stones, missiles, bottles and firecrackers were thrown during the invasions, forcing the referee to abandon the game on 69 minutes with Esperance 2-0 ahead.

Esperance and Sunshine Stars of Nigeria have six points each in a revised Group A table after the four Etoile results were dropped and both qualify for the semi-finals with ASO Chlef of Algeria pointless and out of the running.

The disqualification of Etoile will be welcomed by African football observers, who have accused CAF of being soft in the past on clubs with records of crowd trouble.

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Aug 27, 2012

Mellow

Shame so there are more of them hooligans out there am sure pie-rats fanz will feel at home on this article they can relate yeerrrrr barbaric childish behaviour
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Aug 27, 2012

DJ-Winner

@Sowetan sometimes. I thought you were talking about our noisy neighbours...
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Aug 27, 2012

Pheli-Marabi

Orlando Pirates have been doing this since 1938.

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Aug 27, 2012

Papage

PSL must do the same starting with the Chairman's Team of Balookers
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Aug 27, 2012

Tasto

All u ppl u tjatjarag this has nothing abt SA or OPFC, its CAF !!

Aagh man Haytou fiefdom !
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Aug 27, 2012

Bizzabo

CAF not PSL for heavens sake maan!
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