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The British government will extend sanctions on about 3,200 fans banned from watching soccer matches in the country to prevent them from traveling to South Africa for the World Cup.
The troublemakers already have to surrender their passports to police before international matches but the Home Office says the government will impose what it calls a ``control period'' to lengthen the time they can be stopped from traveling.
The number of arrests by police at soccer matches in England and Wales fell 2 percent last season.
About half of the 3,752 arrests were for disorder and about a third for alcohol-related offenses. Ticket scalping and violence also featured in the list of reasons.
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