England fans warned they'll be targeted by Russian hooligans at 2018 World Cup

The violence that marred Euro 2016 threatens to be repeated.

In "Russia's Hooligan Army," a documentary that will be screened Thursday on BBC2, England's supporters are warned they are "100 percent guaranteed" to be targeted by Russian hooligans at the 2018 World Cup. The film will show young men preparing for the tournament by engaging in prearranged brawls against rival firms, according to the Guardian's Nick Ames.

Included in the documentary is a hooligan known as Vasily the Killer, who is the head of Spartak Moscow's firm, Gladiators Firm '96, and is believed to have helped remotely control the violent events in Marseille, France on the day England played Russia at Euro 2016, Ames explains. In the programme, he alleges Vladimir Putin was involved in the hooliganism.

Also featured in the documentary is Denis, who led the Orel Butchers, a group at the centre of the violence in Marseille. "They can come over and we'll see," he said in the film. "Somebody will obviously try to do something, that is like 100 percent."

An anonymous hooligan from Rostov, Russia speaks in the documentary and explains why England's supporters are targeted, saying: "Our opponents are naturally the English because they are the forefathers of hooligans and naturally they are always awaited." He predicts the 2018 World Cup will be "a festival of violence."

On the day England and Russia played out a scoreless draw in the group stage of Euro 2016, a Three Lions' supporters was seriously injured after being kicked repeatedly in the head while a number of other fans were hospitalised. Marseille's emergency services said 31 people were injured in the disorder, including a middle-aged man who was knocked unconscious and a supporter who suffered a heart attack.