Blatter allays World Cup hooliganism fears

FIFA president Sepp Blatter today insisted security measures for next year’s World Cup will prevent the tournament being marred by a spread of the hooliganism witnessed recently in Italy.

The world governing body’s security chief Walter Gagg will be in London tomorrow to compare notes with English experts, but Blatter believes the 2006 World Cup in Germany will be trouble-free despite problems the last time it was held in Europe.