{"id":140534,"date":"2018-06-13T10:32:58","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/world-cup-2018-england-thugs-stopped-from-going-to-russia\/"},"modified":"2018-06-13T10:32:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T10:32:58","slug":"world-cup-2018-england-thugs-stopped-from-going-to-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/world-cup-2018-england-thugs-stopped-from-going-to-russia\/","title":{"rendered":"World Cup 2018: England &#8216;thugs&#8217; stopped from going to Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"England flags\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/DD7C\/production\/_102000765_hi047192560.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Reuters                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">More than 1,200 people banned from attending football matches have surrendered their passports ahead of the World Cup, the Home Office says.<\/p>\n<p>Of 1,312 individuals with football banning orders, 1,254 have given up their documents ahead of the tournament in Russia which starts on 14 June. <\/p>\n<p>Police say they will continue working to trace the remaining 58.<\/p>\n<p>Police minister Nick Hurd said the action would ensure &quot;thugs&quot; would not &quot;ruin the tournament for real fans&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>About 10,000 people from the UK are expected to travel to Russia for the World Cup.<\/p>\n<h2>You may also be interested in:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Does England have the most critical media in world football?<\/li>\n<li>Meet the only English referee at the World Cup<\/li>\n<li>Predict who will win the World Cup<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In March, English police had to reassure Russian authorities only &quot;genuine fans&quot; would go after more than 100 supporters were arrested when England played the Netherlands in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n<p>There were also violent clashes between Russia and England supporters when the two countries played each other in Marseille at Euro 2016.<\/p>\n<p>As well as the banning orders, police will be deployed at major UK ports during the World Cup to stop known troublemakers from travelling to Russia.<\/p>\n<p>A delegation from the UK will travel to the country to work with their police counterparts during the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Football banning orders are imposed by courts and can last for up to 10 years. <\/p>\n<p>There are 327 banned individuals who do not hold passports and they are not required to report to police.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Chief Constable Mark Roberts, the national lead for football policing, said: &quot;A comprehensive policing operation has been in place across the country to account for passports of those on banning orders, which has once again seen only a handful of those outstanding.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Reuters More than 1,200 people banned from attending football matches have surrendered their passports ahead of the World Cup, the Home Office says. Of 1,312 individuals with football<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":140535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-140534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}