The Football Association said yesterday that they were confident England fans will be on their best behaviour in November when they travel to Scotland for what Roy Hodgson expects to be a “very spiky” and “feisty” friendly.

The FA arranged two internationals with Scotland as part of its 150th anniversary celebrations.

England beat Scotland 3-2 in the first game, in August 2013, and they will be hoping to do the same in the reverse fixture, which takes place on November 18 in Glasgow.

Nationalist sentiment is running high in Scotland as the country prepares to go to the polls for the September 18 independence referendum, determining whether the country should break away from the United Kingdom.

Some England supporters were heard during Monday’s win over Switzerland in Basel hurling abuse at Scotland and chanting: “We’re all voting Yes.”

Both governing bodies are taking extra steps to make sure there is no violence in and around the Celtic Park fixture.

The FA has been consulting with the Scottish authorities about security measures and only fans registered with the England Supporters Travel Club will be able to buy tickets as they will not go on general sale.

FA Club England managing director Adrian Bevington said: “We are working closely with our colleagues at the Scottish FA and are taking all usual security precautions.

“We were pleased that the Wembley fixture in August 2013 passed peacefully with over 20,000 Scotland fans adding to the occasion and atmosphere of respectful rivalry.

“Over the last decade we have been proud of our official travelling support and the improvement in behaviour, which has resulted in no arrests at any of the last four major tournaments.”

The former Liverpool manager is old enough to remember England and Scotland clashing on an annual basis in the Home Internationals, which were scrapped in 1984.

Hodgson also recalls the fiery experience of taking Swiss side Neuchatel Xamax to Glasgow in the 1991 Uefa Cup.

“We’d won the first leg 5-1 and the second leg should have been a dead rubber but it wasn’t,” said the England manager, whose team lost the game in Glasgow 1-0.

“It wasn’t a dead rubber for those Celtic fans because 60,000 of them turned up and made our lives a misery for that 90 minutes.