Anti-immigrant yobs rampaged after three children were stabbed, blaming immigrants as they vandalized businesses and battled with police.

"The boy wasn't known for anything. Just for being a yob."

A reliably controversial pundit, Sir Bernard refused to retreat from the view that the Hillsborough disaster - which claimed the lives of 96 football supporters in 1989 - had been caused by "tanked-up yobs".

But this story of yobs spitting gobs turns into a busy production that’s as bombastic and overly filigreed as a prog-rock keyboard solo.

The principal accused, Salah Abdeslam, he called "a little yob trying to magnify his pathetic existence by pretending to be a warrior".