Changing Room Chat: Fans crutching at straws for Racing

RACING Club fans threw more than a dozen crutches on to the pitch during a Copa Argentina match to express their disgust at the team’s form.

Match officials helped remove the crutches during the game against Sarmiento, a 2-0 win for Racing, who have been in dismal form in the first division Clausura championship. Coach Alfio Basile resigned after last weekend’s 4-1 derby defeat at Independiente. Local media said it was not clear how fans had got away with taking such a large number of crutches into the ground in Resistencia.