German officials announced Thursday that they will temporarily suspend the European Union’s Schengen travel agreement to allow for border checks in an effort to prevent hooligans from entering the country during the World Cup. Normally people traveling in the Schengen travel zone can go from one country to another without showing their identity cards, [...]

Of all the stories about we’ve read about the plans of German authorities to deal with potential troublemakers at the World Cup this one seems the most futile. Frankfurt police will be trained to use “pub speak” through megaphones to explain to crowds what the police are doing when, for example, they are arresting [...]

Recognizing that even hooligans need a roof to sleep under, Hamburg is building a temporary jail that can house up to 150 people during the World Cup. The jail will be made available for those who are “temporarily taken into custody” in order to avert violence. Residents might be asked to stay there [...]

They did the crime and they’ve done the time and now they can go to Germany. An estimated 1,000 convicted English hooligans will be legally able to go to the World Cup because their “banning orders” have expired. These are the nice folks whose thuggish actions were so bad that they were banned [...]