This is how they do it in Holland...

This is how they do it in Holland..., originally uploaded by CharlesFred.

The English football team go to Ukraine on Saturday for a World Cup qualifier knowing that they have already qualified. It is just Ukraine now which needs to do well to make sure that they qualify instead of Croatia, so there will be some real competitive spirit.

The English football team came to Amsterdam in August (on a cool, grey, miserable summer's day) for a 'friendly' match. The football might have been friendly but the fans (both Dutch and English) managed to create enough of a nuisance of themselves for the Amstelstraat to be closed off and guarded by police dogs such as this.