I do not wish to give the impression in any way that I am defending the behaviour of the type experienced by Mrs Mcmoo above and that we saw for ourselves on TV. Some of their reasoning was simply surreal but it has to be recognised that they are certain that they are right.

I think this bizarre concept of being 'at war' with the rest of the world. Expecting gratitude from Europe for 'liberating' them and at the same time being proud of being thought of as the scourge of Europe, is fortunately confined to England. It is to England's shame that we have not been able (or willing) to deal with and contain it, up to now.

However the problem does not go away because England are no longer in the competition, though judging by some of yesterday's games the football has certainly improved.

At one of the matches yesterday, two angry supporters came on to the pitch. One of them was only prevented from assaulting the referee by one of the opposite team's players. Very bravely, as this player was the one that had just scored the winning goal. The referee was later seen to be bleeding from a head wound after having been hit by a missile thrown from the crowd!

It is how the authorities deal with these incidents, directly connected to the football that will be watched very closely. For genuine supporters of English football can only imagine the reaction had these incidents been inflicted by 'the English'? I can't even imagine how 'the mob' will view it?

The team in question (although they did not realise it at the time), have qualified for the next stage. Had The England team qualified and this had happened at their match, I suspect that the England team would have already been thrown out of the event?

Watch this space………………………