A riot, and I think you can call it a riot if it involves 100 people with bricks and knives, happened yesterday on Earlsdon High Street, between rivals supporting the Sky Blues and Leicester City.
It was at 1130am, but I didn't find out until 1130pm (just by checking teletext). My in-laws were visiting from Manchester yesterday, and they arrived around 1030am, and noticed helicopters overhead (we wonder what this means in retrospect). We went out to shop on the high street around 4pm, and there was no sign that anything had occured!
I'd agree with the poe-leece in that "it is very unusual for disorder to break out in the Earlsdon area, and all indications at the moment suggest that the violence was planned."
That being said, if a 100-person riot had happened in Leicester Square at 1130am yesterday, it would have led the national media. Instead, I think the media wants to think football violence is a thing of the 80's and 90's.
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