In December, the Merseyside Derby was postponed due to dangerous and adverse weather conditions in Storm Darragh. It is rather ironic, then, that the post-match scenes at Goodison Park on Wednesday night caused such carnage on the streets of Liverpool.
Storm Doucoure, if you like, after Everton midfielder Abdoulaye Doucoure incited a string of events that saw four red cards, brawls, fans on the pitch, bottles thrown from the stands and eight arrests made by police.
Walking away from this grand old stadium just before midnight was to witness a scene like one from a post-apocalyptic movie. Firework shops did a roaring trade judging by the floor. There was also smashed glass aplenty and เปิดประตูสู่โชคลาภ hundreds of empty beer cans lining Goodison Road.
This was the calm after the storm, at least outside the ground.
Benvenuto!
