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England Fans Riot In South Africa: Picture

by | 28th, June 2010

ENGLAND are thrashed 4-1 by Germany in the World Cup. Technology is trying to locate the England team spirit. Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, says he’s looked but he can’t see any of that Hillsborough-style hooliganism. We can.

One of your writer’s routine jobs on the tabloids was to compile the list of “SHAME”, in which the English Disease would be chronicled in as much titillating detail as possible. So. We set about looking for football violence in South Africa. And we found some.

The violence was not only the English football hacks cornering an Italian and beating the crap-ello out of him with words. But we saw an actual fan being escorted from a bar in South Africa. It’s England’s SHAME. Cue the technology:

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England manager Fabio Capello during press conference at the Royal Bafokeng Sports Complex, Rustenburg, South Africa.



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