![]() Since 1998 Japanese officials have toured Europe and South America, consulting top football authorities to lern how to fight the game’s main malady and to train in the art of “ spotting” locating potential troublemakers in a crowd of football supporters. To add to its troubles, Japan was the unlucky winner chosen to host England, the teams most infamaous for its hooligans. But while South Korea has decades of experience in quelling aggressive demonstrations including rampant pro-democracy rallies in the 980s-Japan has virtually had to learn from scratch. Faering a repeat of Marseilles 1998, where nearly 50 were arrested and 30 injured in clashes between England and Tunisia supporters, Japan and Suouth Korea have taken every precaution. ![]() Another Japanese dress rehearsal for World Cup 2002 has ended in success- and without casualities.Īs Asia opens its aims to the world’s best teams and nearly 1 million of their supporters is keeping another set of arms firmly braced to combat hooliganism. Suddenly water cannons appear, and within minutesthe last persistent “thug” is knocked to the ground. An electric billboard flickers the same warning. Some 50 screaming “hooligans”, faces painted and armed with burning wooden sticks, throw chairs back at the front line. “Quite down”, booms a voice, in English, Spanish and Japanese, over the laudspeaker. Just outside Yokohama stdium, several hundred policemen stare down the cord. ![]()
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