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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on March 23, 2018, 03:17:29 pm
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Dutch police detain 25 England supporters for violence
3/23/18 10:00 AM
AMSTERDAM — Dutch police say they detained 25 English soccer supporters overnight after drunken fans threw beer bottles at officers ahead of a friendly match between the Netherlands and England.
Police say riot police were deployed to downtown Amsterdam to deal with the rowdy supporters. Police detained the England fans for offenses including public disorder.
Continued at: http://www.dailyjournal.net/2018/03/23/soc-england-fan-arrests/ (http://www.dailyjournal.net/2018/03/23/soc-england-fan-arrests/)
I think Netherlands, like us, the USA and like Italy as well, are not going to the World Cup. I don't expect trouble in Russia but all the same, if there was a World Cup to miss, it might be this one... and then, the next one, 2022, is in Qatar. That's not too good either.