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You know it's World Cup time when England's most ferocious soccer fans are ordered to turn in their passports so they can't go to the games in Germany. "They drink until they vomit, rage bare-chested and pick fights with rival fans," to quote the Washington Post's characterization of 3,300 identified "hooligans" not allowed to leave the island. To further ensure that the misfits won't do a reverse-Dunkirk and cross the channel in bathtubs, hooligans also must report to a local police station whenever England plays.
As to what punishment awaits cretins who disobey orders, no one has said.
Public beheadings, I'd suggest.
Just kidding. I'd settle for medieval torture of a cruel and unusual...
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