Daily Mail

Wales show the way

- c.sale@dailymail.co.uk and twitter.com/charliesal­e

WaleS and Slovakia fans shouldn’t add to the massive security concerns surroundin­g the matches in lille and lens today if the conduct around their opening Group B match at euro 2016 is anything to go by.

The two sets of supporters got on so well they played a mass football match against each other in Bordeaux’s main square after the Welsh victory last Saturday.

and Wales’s open approach to the media, in contrast to england players’ scripted appearance­s, saw superstar Gareth Bale put up for interview yesterday and then stay to applaud his team-mate aaron ramsey off the stage. ADAM

LALLANA was one of the outstandin­g England players against Russia. But his parents have hired a camper van to travel to the games, searching for camp sites along the way. They didn’t want to book hotels as they were not sure he would make the squad, let alone be assured of his place in the starting XI. FiFa’S ever- confusing reform process now includes Fatma Samoura, president Gianni infantino’s surprise choice to be secretary general, passing an eligibilit­y check. it was conducted by three independen­t parties — Miguel Maduro, former advocate general of the european Court of Justice, retired indian High Court judge Mukul Mudgal and Felipe Salaverry, a former president of Peruvian club Sporting Cristal. FiFa say the expected integrity probe into Samoura’s suitabilit­y for the post was wrapped up in the eligibilit­y investigat­ion.

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