Then Sir, you clearly have not seen the full video. In the full thing, the man is seen speaking to her while leaning over the table; on one occassion, he points a finger. At this stage the conversation was what observers have risibly termed "civil", yet his body language is clearly passive aggressive and displays all the features of a dominant animal intimidating a lesser one.

He then grabs the little girl, the mother yanks her back, then stands up and begins screaming blue murder. So I beg to differ that her response, however inelegant, was unprovoked. I find it puzzling that people will defend his response to his daughter's alleged assault, but not hers. I would see red if a man yanked my child under any pretext, and wouldn't apologise for it.

I've never been to Spur and probably never will, so have no vested interest in the boycott. Just hard to ignore the hypocrisy of people defending a bully.