Australian football officials insist they have few concerns over crowd violence, despite being drawn today to face Lebanon in the preliminary rounds of the 2007 Asian Cup.

YOUNG people riding in vehicles smashed cars and store windows in suburban Sydney late yesterday, a day after thousands of drunken white youths attacked people they believed were of Middle Eastern descent at a beach in the same area in one of Australia’s worst outbursts of racial violence.

Violence has erupted in Sydney for a second night in a row, as youths battered cars and smashed store windows, police said.