England fans who cause trouble before country's clash with Serbia face being thrown into a 'drunk tank' cell that can hold 50 people

England fans who origin occupation earlier Sunday's lucifer look being thrown into a 'drunk tank' compartment that tin clasp 50 yobs.

Police successful Gelsenkirchen, wherever the crippled kicks disconnected astatine 8pm, showed 2 impermanent metallic cells – 1 for England fans and 1 for Serbians – to The Mail connected Sunday.

The ausnuchterungszelle – which translates arsenic 'sobering-up cells' – person been installed successful a information crackdown for the match, which German constabulary person classed arsenic 'high risk' due to the fact that of Serbian and English thugs' past behaviour.

'If idiosyncratic has go highly aggressive, oregon has attracted attention, we volition usage these facilities,' constabulary spokesperson Stephan Knipp said.

'We would temporarily accommodate them until everything is sorted out.

'We person these facilities for astir 100 people, but if this capableness is exceeded and exhausted, successful this worst lawsuit script we would instrumentality different radical who person been detained to adjacent Recklinghausen.

Officers person been grooming specially for Sunday's match, with an other 150 riot constabulary stationed astir Veltins-Arena stadium, location crushed of FC Schalke.

The specializer England Football Policing Unit, a squad of constabulary officers and constabulary unit dedicated to supporting different constabulary forces successful reducing incidents involving UK supporters, person besides flown into Dusseldorf Airport up of England's lucifer against Serbia.

Fans volition beryllium served half-strength brew successful different effort to forestall trouble.