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UK Minister Simmonds to visit Miami and Sao Paulo to support the English team
UK Foreign Office Minister Mark Simmonds is scheduled to visit Sao Paulo and Miami to promote the travel safety 'Be On The Ball' campaign, preparing fans for the World Cup and to support the English team. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIs the entirety of the British political and royal class out and about to watch football matches?
Jun 04th, 2014 - 02:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0And the twats commenting on this website are paying for their ruling class's World Cup vacations... and they don't care.
Probably care less because they aren't pilfering millions like the leaders of some of Brazil's neighbours.
Jun 04th, 2014 - 02:32 am - Link - Report abuse 0How many “free” tickets have Boudou and CFK given to faithful Peronists and La Campora ???
Jun 04th, 2014 - 04:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Who's Maximo sitting with ???
A lost cause - England have about as much chance of winning the World Cup as Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and Eire - all of whom are not in Brasil!
Jun 04th, 2014 - 05:48 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1 So why do you then?
Jun 04th, 2014 - 07:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0Every country has an equal chance of winning the world cup,
Jun 04th, 2014 - 09:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0England has as good a chance of winning it, as the rest,
as they say, nothing is certain until that final whistle..
One things for certain.
Jun 04th, 2014 - 09:47 am - Link - Report abuse 0If you ain't innit, you ain't gonna win it!
Football!! nah they should be playing Rugby much more interesting :-) and I will give Argentina credit here at least they play Rugby :-)
Jun 04th, 2014 - 01:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I have a sneaky feeling that England will play Argentina in the World Cup ...
Jun 04th, 2014 - 04:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now that will be interesting
Very interesting.ol
Jun 04th, 2014 - 06:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1,
Jun 04th, 2014 - 09:04 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What a resentful, negative person.
He can't see good in anyone or anything.
Oh well, life goes on.
@1 Nostril
Jun 04th, 2014 - 10:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Is it not ok that Brits have the same passion for football that South Americans do?
Are you really upset that British fans will spend thousands of £ to come thousands of miles to SA, stay in hotels, buy food, rent cars, buy drinks, take taxis, buy souvenirs and by their presence, and that of other “EUsians”, give credibility to Brazil as host of a “World Event ”??
Your protests are more than a little humourous!
:-)
How many Argentine politicians, and other SA politicians, do you think are going to the matches ?
How many of them, would feel insulted as persons of social or political “status”, if they had to buy their own tickets??
Surely, FIFA, or some other Corporate or public “benefactor”, will feel “honoured” to have them attend - and foot the whole bill.
Isn't that how public contracts are awarded in Aargh??
“Simmonds concerned with the safety and security of those travelling to the tournament in Brazil”
Jun 05th, 2014 - 01:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0then he should ban all the english hooligans to travel there.
13 niño Paul
Jun 05th, 2014 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Have you not been reading any other posts?
English hooligans ? No.
Brazilian thieves, Favela poor, homeless children,
Argentine provocateurs, yes.
England draws, ,,Italy loses,
Jun 05th, 2014 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0looking good.
15
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0and argentina wins
looking great
ha ha, no chance, they will be out before we will.
Jun 05th, 2014 - 06:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0No hooligans will be travelling from the UK because the UK takes strict preventative measures. So only fans will be travelling.
Jun 07th, 2014 - 05:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In the UK the hooligan problem was dealt with years ago. It is pratically non-existent now.
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More than 1,400 football hooligans in England will have to hand their passports to police in the coming days to stop them going to the World Cup.
Passports must be surrendered on Monday or Tuesday, ahead of the tournament in Brazil which starts on 12 June.
Police said the rule applied to people convicted of football-related violence and given a banning order including a condition to hand in their passport.
Anyone keeping their passport in breach of an order could face court action.
Courts imposing football banning orders have had the power to make people convicted of football-related violence hand in their passports before overseas matches since 2000, and 1,452 are required to do so in the coming days.
Ch Supt Rachel Barber, who will lead the English police delegation in Brazil, said banning the minority of England fans who wanted to “cause disorder” had proved “extremely effective”.
“We are the subject of envy of some of our colleagues across the world for the legislation that we have in the UK,” she said.
Ch Supt Barber, of South Yorkshire Police, said there was a “stigma” attached to England fans based on past incidents - and as a result they “may become targets” for hooligans from other countries.
She said the English police delegation was going to Brazil to keep England fans safe, and this would include passing Brazilian police any intelligence about possible violence.
But she said there had been “very limited trouble” involving English supporters at the last few major international tournaments.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-27647510
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