THERE are grave fears that English and Argentinian football fans will end up in the same parts of the ground when their teams meet in the World Cup tomorrow night.

It is a blunder on the part of the organisers almost beyond comprehension.

Given the background, this is the fixture the World Cup organisers must have dreaded. And yet they issue a pathetically inadequate 2,000 tickets to supporters of each side for a ground which will hold 42,000 people.

England's three previous matches have been almost like home games with thousands of fans buying tickets on the French Black Market.

Tomorrow both sets of fans will be snapping up as many tickets as possible on that same Black Market and are likely to end up sitting side-by-side.

For months before the World Cup we were told that ticket allocation would be fair. What nonsense. FIFA and the French FA should be ashamed of themselves. Ticket distribution has been a shambles from the start.

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