England keeps detailed records of football hooligans. Once your name was entered, you were banned from attending matches at the stadium. For fanatics like these, being barred from the terraces was like being deprived of life itself.
Seeing the crowd outside, everyone on the bus sucked in a collective breath. Thankfully for the staff and the older players, this was not their first encounter.
"With this door as the boundary, you lot stay there and we'll stay here. We'll play our match while they can't do a thing to us. Everyone will be safe as long as nobody crosses that line." O'Neill clapped his hands. "We'll take our revenge on the pitch. Isn't that a fantastic plan?"