Ecuador in Billericay

It's just not the same watching the World Cup in England and that's all there is to it.

Once there were 'plastic punks' - those people who spiked up their hair at the weekend and worked as bank clerks during the week. I consider all these men in pubs wrapped in flags and drinking lager to be plastic football fans.

There was a scuffle in the pub at the end of the match - and we seemed to be at the centre of it. It was my first experience of World Cup violence!