Two interesting articles – the first outlines police concerens over domestic violence increasing during previous world cup tournaments and announces measures to tackle it in the June 2010 one, the second is West Yorkshire police claiming success because there was less of an increase in DV during the 2010 tournament compared to the 2006 tournament, even if there was still significantly higher incidents compared to the same days in 2009 when there was no football.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8703030.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-10819077

West Yorkshire Police seam to think that their campaign was successful because they only got 284 reports of DV on the day Germany defeated England!

This is an interesting post about the history of England team members treating women badly –

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/10/world-cup-not-supporting-england

Perhaps banning the world cup is an option to prevent DV against women? In my view the tournament is almost as overated as the England team.