I was watching the crowd in the Korea-Italy match. A mass of Korean red - and every here and there someone supporting Italy, waving an Italian flag or scarf. And they were all mixed in together, with absolutely no hassles. Unheard of.

And that is the main winner in this year's World Cup.

As my son remarked - and he is as committed a fan as any - maybe the way to get rid of crowd trouble and hooliganism in the World Cup is to hold it as far away from England as possible.

But just possibly there might be a change in the mode of the music.