Teacher is yob mastermind

A history teacher faces jail today for orchestrating soccer violence.

David Walker, 37, a successful head of year at a boys' college, was the ringleader behind a series of violent clashes between rival gangs.

Hooligans used the internet to set up street clashes which culminated in the "Battle of Maze Hill" - a brutal encounter of Charlton and Southampton thugs at Greenwich. His career in ruins, Walker and six other men were being sentenced at Kingston Crown Court for their part in Britain's biggest conspiracy to cause football violence.

Ten more were jailed for up to four years at an earlier hearing.

Most of the defendants followed the England team and police believe they have prevented major trouble at next month's Euro 2004 tournament in Portugal.

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