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London - Inside The Football Riot

The majority of the British press has predictably overlooked Wayne Rooney stamping on Ricardo Carvalho's balls and are instead blaming Cristiano Ronaldo's "wink" at the Portugese bench following the incident for the national team's tawdry exit from the World Cup. Umm, blaming a "wink"? How about playing Peter Crouch up on his own at the front? How about missing three fucking penalties? How about having Swedish Mr Burns for a manager (we wrote him off years ago when we found out he kept his stack-heeled shoes outside Ulrika Jonsson's boudoir to keep the maid from interrupting their frantic coitus).
No matter, sites like www.ihateronaldo.com are popping up all over the internet today, threatening Ronaldo with a broken neck etc etc. What a beautiful game it is.

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What you don't see in the press is the riot that our photographer Jane Stockdale got caught up in the West End of London following the match.

About 200 police officers fought "zealously" with fans following the match and one of them threatened Jane as she took photos. "You're going to fucking get it" one of the male officers told Jane, who stands at the whopping height of five feet, seven inches tall.