Pole-axed
Violence erupted at a UEFA football match between Aston Villa and Legia Warsaw in Birmingham, when the visiting Polish supporters were barred from the stadium. Our fearless reporters were able to impress upon us, through judicial use of cut and paste, that the police gave the operation their fullest attention possible, they policed it correctly, but incidents of sporadic violence just cannot be stopped.
At least, I think that's the message here:
"It's just a difficult situation because we knew the intelligence that they were coming over to cause problems and the police gave the operation the fullest attention possible - we've policed it correctly but you just cannot stop the sporadic violence which occurs." He said the force had given the policing operation for the match "the fullest attention possible". "We've policed it correctly, but you just cannot stop the sporadic violence which occurs," he added.
Allen Cook and Eleanor Lawson, BBC News