By Gordon Farquhar BBC Sport News Correspondent

Police were called upon to react to ugly scenes

England are in town, and it is business as usual. None of us were fooled in Japan and Korea; we knew the hooligans would be back.

The World Cup of peace and love is a rapidly fading memory as the whiff of CS gas hangs in the air again and the number of arrests flows into three figures.

First Bratislava, then Zurich/Vaduz and now Sunderland, the minority hell bent on causing trouble continue to sully the team's good name.

Arrests mar England game

We need passion and commitment on the pitch, restraint and tolerance off it.

But we do not get it, and the question is, how long can the authorities continue to shrug it off with just minor punishments?

The Football Association was warned during Euro 2000 they could be expelled from the tournament if there was a repeat of the scenes in Charleroi.

The anthem was loudly booed and "stand up if you hate Turkey" was widely observed

Well, I have seen worse since, nastier, more prolonged, if not quite on such a large a scale.

I have heard "sieg heil" and "die Turkey die" from the self-styled casual firms in their designer uniforms.

There are some suggestions the FA might decline its allocation of tickets for the away game in Istanbul.

It would be a very good idea, even if some would travel regardless.

FA rules out enquiry

Others think Uefa ought to ban England fans anyway. They will certainly be looking at the pitch invasions in Sunderland closely, although they acknowledge they were more celebratory than aggressive in their nature.

Trouble inside the stadium was minimal, but hostility toward the visiting fans was tangible - the anthem was loudly booed and "stand up if you hate Turkey" was widely observed.

England are a problem wherever they go, and the performance of their fans as well as the players will be closely monitored in Macedonia in September.

It will not take much more now to trigger serious action from Uefa to try and prevent major unrest in Istanbul at what is still likely to be the group decider in October.