Brickolage
14 June 2004. Inspired by .
According to The Guardian, "The home secretary, David Blunkett, warned today that police will come down 'like a tonne of bricks' on football fans who misbehave at home during the Euro 2004 tournament."
Given that they're in Europe, it seems only fair to use metric weights on them, which means that they've gotten off lightly. 16.047 kg lightly, in fact.
Meanwhile, my Portuguese correspondent tells me that ugly scenes involving professional English thugs, their own pepper bomb and a bus of innocent bystanders won't be helping the kingdom's reputation any, up in Lisbon. And so it goes on.
UPDATE: Trevor, as ever, sets me right.