Watching live football in a pub is an acquired taste – clearly, it's not to everybody's liking – but there is something about the atmosphere the traditional British pub has whilst showing the beautiful game.

Whilst they are making money, which in the current climate is very welcome, I have a great deal of sympathy for pub landlords during the World Cup, for as lucrative as it can be, it can also be a thankless task.

Football is a passionate game and emotions run very high, even more so when fuelled by alcohol.

I watched Saturday night's game at the Broadwater pub.

Full marks to the landlord, as with his ticketing and door policy, and the service, it provided a great atmosphere, despite Mr Green's faux pas (that's the England goalie, for those of you who were not one of the 20million-plus watching the game).

But there will always be somebody who will overstep the mark and spoil what, despite the result, was great night overall.

And, as is customary in this town, stories get embellished – therefore, it should have come as no surprise the next day to be told elsewhere that there had actually been a full-scale, Wild West-style brawl with a fleet of police vehicles in attendance.

Well, not from where I was standing . . .

• The attacking of twin baby sisters in south east London recently highlighted the growing threat of urban foxes in this country.

There is opinion in certain quarters that the problem is a far bigger issue that can just be solved just by the repealing of the fox hunting bill.

The animal rights lobby was in some ways correct, by its very nature fox hunting was inhumane, but so is the savaging of two infants in their cots.

Will it take the death of a child before the authorities look at direct action?

I cannot see how, if the current levels of the urban fox population rise, along with reports of incidents similar to last week, a humane fox cull can appear anything other than unavoidable.

• And, finally, another tale of political correctness gone mad?

A Sussex Police woman working out of Gatwick, signed off for stress, gets awarded £575,000 in compensation.

Yet, had she been a serving soldier in Iraq and Afghanistan who had had limb or limbs blown off, she would have received less from the government on her return to this country.

Obviously, I cannot either comment about or condone what went on within the police force, but as a society generally, does it now appear that we care more about some people's feelings than other people's limbs?

Ian Hart's comment is published in the Herald series every Thursday

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