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Panorama Special - England's Shame
Tuesday June 20 2000 Reporter Gavin Hewitt Produces Tom Giles & Sam Bagnall Assistant Producers Sarah Gregory & Esella Hawkey ![]() ![]() Programme Update - 1 February 2001 England's Shame won the Best News Programme award at The Broadcast Awards. The judges said "The government almost certainly introduced legislation to prevent hooligans travelling abroad as a result of this film - underlining the key role Panorama plays in political debate." Panorama has for the past eight days been covertly filming known football hooligans who have evaded checks and controls to get into Belgium and Holland. One hooligan who has a string of football related convictions actually left London on the day he was due in court. Two other hooligans reveal that they still managed to get into Belgium despite the fact that they had banning orders. Scroll down for related links Eddie Curtis, Head of the British Police Spotting Team, which is tracking football hooligans throughout Euro 2000 says that the majority of people that UK authorities hoped would be denied entry to the host countries are now in Belgium and the Netherlands.
Eddie Curtis says "I think the energies of the authorities should be directed at ensuring, if they really mean what they say about trying to stop this sort of behaviour, that they give the likes of ourselves and the other police services in Europe sufficient legislation to prevent the people we know who've been convicted before a court within a proper judicial system, we can stop them from travelling to an away football match."
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