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Two men handed football bans after England fans' Nazi salute at the World Cup

A video showedf a group of men singing antisemitic songs and performing Nazi salutes in a Russian bar

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Two men have been banned from football for three years each after a video surfaced of England fans singing antisemitic songs and performing Nazi salutes at the World Cup in Russia.

District Judge Charlotte Holland branded the conduct of David Batty, 58, and Michael Burns, 52, “disgraceful” on Tuesday.

Mr Batty, from Doncaster, and Mr Burns, from Cleveland, accepted the banning orders at Leeds Magistrates’ Court.

The men are forbidden from being within a two-mile radius of any England matches until 2021.

On Saturday Michael Herbert, a 57-year-old from Derby, was served with a five-year football ban for sharing footage of the incident.

Judge Holland told Mr Batty and Mr Burns: “I have seen the activity that you were involved in and seen the still images from what you did.

“You know that at this time people are getting behind the national team, including children, and your actions are ruining that.”

A spokesman for the FA said of the footage: “We strongly condemn the actions of the people in this video.

“The disgraceful conduct of the individuals in this video does not represent the values of the majority of English football fans supporting the team in Russia.”

Paul Johnson, 25, of Banbury, Oxfordshire, was given a three-year football banning order at Oxford Magistrates’ Court on Saturday, following a separate incident on a train near Moscow on June 16.

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