From May 2002....
During the last World Cup in France in 1998 - a bricklayer and QPR fan, was hailed for travelling to the tournament on a bicycle complete with a trailer bearing the flag of St George. He rode more than 1,000 miles, clocking up 88 miles a day for two weeks from the Hook of Holland, through Belgium and Luxembourg, Germany, the Swiss Alps and Italy and back into France in time for England's opening match in Marseilles - he did not have a ticket.
Questioned by reporters while catching some rest at a campsite in Cassis at the time, he said he was not involved in any of the football violence that was going on.
"I haven't come all this way to get involved in any of this nonsense," he said. "My mission is to watch Shearer score the winning goal in Paris."
He was refused entry by Japan at the 2002 World Cup.