Tomorrow, December 2nd football's world governing body FIFA will decide where the 2018 World Cup finals will be held. Britain's bid team is currently in Zurich frantically lobbying to win the honour.
Tonight in Britain Birmingham City played Aston Villa in the Carling Cup. Although Birmingham and Villa fans are both pretty harmless this is a long standing local derby grudge match. So when Birmingham scored a late winner their fans invaded the pitch to celebrate. As the fans were celebrating rather then fighting there wasn't any trouble and the pitch invasion was quickly brought under control. So it was a timely demonstration of how good the British police and football clubs have become at controlling crowds. While the timings a little bit suspicious it's actually a fair point because the British police are probably some of the best in the world at dealing with football hooligans.
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