let off

Liverpool's players were subjected to fireworks let off outside their Istanbul hotel designed to disturb their sleep - but it is a second successive loss that must act as the real wake-up call.

While most action has been peaceful, Essex Police said eight officers were hurt on 17 July, when fireworks were let off and eggs thrown.

"Nobody wants to be in that situation where you have to ask a stranger to knock on the door and ask the driver to let you off the bus because you haven't been let off."

"I would say that this is an attempt to give young people a valve to let off steam - so that they can at least have the illusion of a quick trip abroad," he says.

Others counter that rank-and-file cops who commit misconduct are routinely let off the hook.