Quote ="DHM"Just being a baggy Manc is justification enough. Don't start something you can't finish, don't let your mouth overload your ar$ehole, sow the wind reap the ...etc....etc. Trying to impress your bird can be done in so many better ways than slapping an apparently harmless stranger outside a nightclub. You never know when they might turn out to be a world class athlete who plays the toughest sport in the world and has survived being knocked around by some of the biggest meatheads on the planet (not to mention having his ear eaten by a fat ginger scouser).
All good fun.'"
Sums it up perfectly for me , surprised the old Bill didn't just give the pair of them a bollocking and send em on their way tbh .