Irish Sunday Mirror

‘Heartbreak hotels’ a worry for England World Cup stars

- BY ALAN SELBY and JOSH MCSTAY

ENGLAND World Cup stars are to stay in budget Russian hotels which have been blasted on Tripadviso­r.

Their €40-a-night Hilton Garden Inn in Volgograd before the Tunisia game has been branded “disgusting”, with photos showing cracked windows. And The Courtyard by Marriott in Nizhny Novgorod before the Panama

Southgate match is “really bad” with “no hot showers”, according to reviews. The prebelgium Radisson in Kaliningra­d is dubbed “unbearably hot” and is opposite a strip club. But manager Gareth Southgate and his players will be relieved that most guests rated all three average to good. RUSSIAN ultra thugs flew to Argentina last month for a meeting with fellow hooligans to plan attacks on England fans in July, reports in South America say.

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