England boss Roy Hodgson has urged fans to behave themselves when his side take on the Republic of Ireland in Dublin tomorrow afternoon.

The teams meet in a friendly at the Aviva Stadium, with Hodgson keen to avoid a reoccurrence of the ugly scenes experienced when England visited Lansdowne Road 20 years ago.

Hodgson is quoted by BT Sport as saying: "As far as we are concerned, and I am sure Martin [O'Neill, ROI manager] and his team, all we are interested in is one thing and one thing alone: playing a very good game of football, using this game as the test we need it to be before we move on to important qualifiers a week later.

"The last thing we really want to be doing is talking after the game about incidents, so we can only hope that both sets of fans behave themselves and in particular our fans do not try to provoke the Irish fans by doing things they really should not do.

"They know they shouldn't do them, we're making it clear they shouldn't do them, so let's hope we don't have to talk about that after the game."

England are so far unbeaten since they were eliminated from last year's World Cup in Brazil.