More than 100 soccer hooligans are secretly plotting to disrupt the World Cup by slipping into Japan from Thailand, a British daily reported Sunday.
"It is feared they are targeting England's crunch match with Argentina on June 7 for the worst outbreak of soccer violence since the riots in Belgium during Euro 2000," the Sunday Mirror said.
According to the daily, Chris Henderson, 42, and Steve Hickmott, 46, once members of "the feared Chelsea headhunters gang of hooligans," are now based at the Thai resort of Pattaya and running a bar called the Dog's Bollocks.
The hooligans will travel to Thailand from British airports over the next few weeks. Henderson and Hickmott will arrange flights for them to slip into Japan and get tickets for the soccer games, the daily said, based on a report by an undercover reporter.