Show first ban on sports excavations in progress at pompeii may reveal the first sports ground ever recorded to be disqualified because of disorderliness alliese by the spectators men working under the direction of professor majuri curator of the excavations have brought to light a wall which is believed to form part of the ground in which teams from pompeii and nocera staged an athletic contest in 79 A D history records that hundreds of No cerans went to pompeii to see the match while the result was still undecided a decision of the referee was challenged and and spectators came to blows the matter was referred to the emperor nero who disqualified the pom grounds for ten years montreal herald |