European governing body Uefa has threatened to ban English teams from Europe if there is anymore crowd trouble.

Home Office figures released in April showed a 19% rise in football-related offences in the past season.

In a period marred by violence since England's Euro 2004 qualifier match with Turkey, 4,793 people have been arrested compared with 4,035 the year before, the Home Office said.

Nearly half of arrests at international games.

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