‘Tartan terror throngs London
NZPA-Reuter London London’s new Jubilee rail line was shut down on Saturday by members of a 50,000-strong “Tartan Army” of Scottish football fans on a drink-inflamed visit to London. About 2000 fans, many of whom had been drinking steadily for several days, poured on to the track on their way to Wembley Stadium. Officials hurriedly shut off
the electric current while ! policemen cleared the track. After Scotland’s 3-1 defeat by England, rampaging Scottish fans smashed train Windows, and the police closed two local railway stations. All but two taverns in Wembley had closed, and queues up to 100 metres long formed outside liquor stores. Scotsmen emerged staggering under the weight of crates of beer and bottles of spirits. The Scots fans’ visits to London combine national pride with hard drinking, and some apprehensive Londoners had made strategic changes in travel and leisure plans to avoid the Scotsmen thronging the city centre. One 20-vear-old man died of knife wounds on one of the dozens of trains which brought the fans from Scotland on Friday. A 16-year-old Scots youth was charged with his murder.
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