Serb and Albanian supporters are divided over the abandoning of their Euro 2016 football tie following a fight between players after a flag stunt.<br /><br />The politically sensitive qualifier descended into a melee when a remote controlled mini drone was flown over the stadium carrying a pro-Kosovo flag.<br /><br />The brother of Albania’s prime minister is said to have been detained on suspicion of instigating the stunt.<br /><br />One Serbian supporter said, “Shame on them Olsi Rama is I believe some sort of a politician, he should not have done this. I thought sport was supposed to win here, not politics.”<br /><br />Albanians in the Kosovan capital of Pristina were highly critical of the Serbs supporters who had invaded the pitch.<br /><br />“They showed themselves how they truly are – a criminal nation. This was a football match and they turned it into a war zone,” commented one Kosovan. <br /><br />The provocative flag had depicted so -called Greater Albania which covers parts of the Balkans where ethnic Albanians live. Self-declared independent Kosovo is a particular flashpoint. <br /><br />In 1999 NATO waged a 78-day war to halt the killing and expulsion of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo by Serbian forces fighting a two-year counter-insurgency. Serbia does not recognise Kosovo as independent.
