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3,200 football hooligans face World Cup ban

MORE than 3,000 British football hooligans will be banned from travelling to South Africa for the World Cup.

Measures to stop troublemakers who are currently barred from watching matches from going to the tournament this summer will be passed in the Commons in the coming weeks, according to the Home Office.

The step will allow Home Secretary Alan Johnson to impose a "control period" on 3,200 hooligans.

Banning orders prevent hooligans attending football matches in England and mean they have to surrender their passports to police before international football matches. But in order to apply the sanction for the month-long duration of the World Cup, Mr Johnson has to lay a statutory instrument before Parliament.

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