THE Greek football team was disturbed when a small fire broke out at the hotel where they were staying - hours before they played England at Old Trafford.
Firefighters were called to the Man-chester Airport Mar-riot Hotel at 3.15am on Satur-day after paper in a bedroom caught light. The fire was sparked off by a carelessly discar-ded cigarette.
But the distur-bance did not affect Greece's perfor-mance at Old Traf-ford later in the day - when only a last gasp goal from skipper David Beck-ham earned Eng-land a draw and a place in next year's World Cup finals.
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