Day of chaos leads to River Plate vs. Boca Juniors being postponed, eventually

Boca Juniors' bus was attacked ahead of the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final against River Plate, putting the match in doubt. With the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final postponed, Stewart Robson addresses the concerns about fans in the stadium for the second leg. Boca Juniors fans poured into the streets in the hours leading up to the second leg of the Copa Libertadores final against their city rivals, River Plate. A worrying aspect of South American football -- especially viewed through the eyes of someone who lived through the bad, old days of the English game in the 1970s and '80s -- is the occasional lack of basic measures in crowd control. The latest example was seen on Saturday, when trouble before the Copa Libertadores final second leg led to the game's postponement.  As the Boca Juniors team bus approached River Plate's Estadio Monumental for the decisive second leg of the Copa Libertadores final,...

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