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• Brazil suffers record number of football violence deaths
• Ultras in eastern Europe, Russian and Italy pose huge threat
• Unrest in Africa spontaneous rather than planned
• Owen Gibson: World Cup – and outbreak of supporter violence – link Brazil and Russia
Greg Dyke had an air of defeatism after the World Cup draw but you can only achieve the impossible if you have a go
• Bora Milutinovic, who stunned Scotland in 1990, talks of shock
• ‘England have good players but can they show it on the field?’
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