World Cup fans arrested

MORE than 300 people were arrested as the worst violence of the 2006 World Cup so far broke out in Dortmund before Germany’s game with Poland, it emerged yesterday.

Trouble flared in the city centre where thousands of German and Polish supporters had spent Wednesday afternoon drinking heavily in a square.

Hundreds of riot police were deployed as thugs threw bottles and chairs at police and each other in Dortmund’s Alter Markt.