Hooligans to be banned from World Cup

So 3,000 of the hardcore nutters who might be expected to ruin this year’s World Cup are to have their passports taken away and told not to be naughty for a month. Is this a realistic solution? They are presumably free to cause mayhem here instead. I’d prefer to have this lot as far away from the UK as possible. Surely someone could open up the old Soviet gulags on the Kamchatka Peninsula and pack these mutants off for a few weeks? Sadly that’s not what our press said. Read on for more.

Best World Cup Player Of The Decade Part 4: the 1970s

The fourth in the series offers a critical evaluation of the teams and players from the nineteen-seventies.