Increasingly aggressive behaviour on football pitches is nothing new, according to this statement from the Anatomy Of Abuses - written in 1593: "Football causeth fighting, brawling, contention, quarrel-picking, murder and great effusion of blood."
World Cup, here we come.
-F R Harris, Hangleton Way, Hove
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