Joint Irish-Scots bid gets another boost

IRELAND and Scotland's hopes of hosting the European Championships in 2008 have sustained another boost as further violence flared at a football match in Switzerland who are mounting a joint bid for the tournament with Austria.

It is a rather embarrassing situation for the two central European nations, coming within a week of the trouble which erupted in the course of Arsenal’s pre season friendly against Rapid Vienna.

Football authorities in both Austria and Switzerland, have been rocked by the latest incident which resulted in one policeman sustaining injuries after officers fired rubber bullets.