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No Scotland, no party! Magaluf mayhem after 1-1 draw with Switzerland
- Tartan Army footsoldiers blotted out drab draw by downing drinks on the strip
Scenes of drunken mayhem again erupted in the rowdy streets of Magaluf last night as boozy Scotland fans queued up to have alcohol poured down their throats.
The 600m-long main drag of bars, clubs, kebab shops and strip joints was last night overrun with youngsters clad in Scotland kits for the nation’s Euro 2024 clash with Switzerland – which ended with a 1-1 result.
Tartan Army footsoldiers blotted out the nation’s drab draw by freely glugging spirits from the bottle – but the excess booze proved to much for some of them.
Our images highlight the worrying extent of drink and drug-fuelled partying in the hedonistic Majorcan party town despite efforts from island officials to clean up the resort.
Teenage pals urged each other to ‘drink, drink, drink, drink’ as barmen marked full-time by tipping the clear liquid in the widened mouths of all who asked.
At nearby The Scotsman pub, fans guzzled 300 pints of the nation’s best-selling Tennent’s lager.
Barman Ryan Smith, 28, said before kick-off: ‘We’re going through bottles of vodka like no tomorrow, and wine as well.
‘We’re at capacity and there’s no more room. Everyone is here for a party.
‘It doesn’t matter who we play, it’s always a party.’
Beers went flying and glasses smashed when a Swiss own-goal but Scotland ahead in the 13th minutes.
Tom Chalmers, 18, hoisted his chair in the air as chants of ‘No Scotland, No Party’ blared in unison.
Tom, from Aberdeen, said: ‘We’ve been on it since four and we’ll be going all night.
‘Magaluf is great. There’s no better place to be than with the boys watching Scotland.’
Pal Brandon Martin, 19, added: ‘It’s brilliant. Birds and booze and a great time.
‘We’ve been here a week and gone out every night so we’re going home a little bit broken.
‘Win or lose, we are on on the booze.’
Hopeful of earning a result himself before a flight home today, Finlay Wilson, 18, also from Aberdeen, added: ‘I’m going to try and get a s*** on my last night.
‘I’ve had no luck so far, just kisses. We gonna kick the a*** of our Magaluf on our last night.’
Scotland fans were seen downing bottles of their beloved national drink Buckfast at a bar near to the strip as others serenaded midfield star John McGinn and belted out the Proclaimers’ hit I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles).
One Scottish woman regaled her audience on the strip by chanting: ‘Please don’t take me home, I just don’t want to go to work.
‘I want to stay here and drink all the beer.’
She then attempted to give her friend a piggy back along the road. But unable to support her weight, the pair collapsed on the group; her pal left dazed from slamming her head on the tarmac.
The Tartan Army takeover proved a lucrative night for shot girls dishing out super-strong concoctions for five euros a go.
The scantily-clad workers’ only income comes from the one euro cut they get from each drink sold.
Fallon Hawkins, 22, from Gloucester, paid an agency £800 to secure a month’s work on the island. The fee sorted her a job flogging shots to punters outside the Peaky Blinders bar, as well as her accommodation on the strip.
Nineteen days in to the job, Fallon, a support worker in the UK, estimates having earned £400 while working six in every seven nights.
She said: ‘You can make money when it’s busy, like when the football is on.
‘But when it’s quiet you make f*** all.
‘On a good day, you can make £150. A quiet night could be making £20 in six hours.
‘It’s hard work and it’s heavy – but I have really loved it out here.
‘It’s an experience and I don’t regret it.’
Describing her living accommodation, with four other strangers in a tower block on the strip, Fallon added: ‘The apartment is rough. They’re not nice at all.
‘Our sink was blocked when we got there and the floors are dirty.
‘There are two single beds in the living room and two in the bedroom. It’s like being in a hostel, basically.
‘When you’re living with strangers it’s hard to sleep. You can get back at 7am and there’s just noise.
‘Something I miss so much about the UK is going home and it being quiet.’
Ahead of the game, a teenage girl from Glasgow lay in her own vomit after claiming her drink had been spiked in a bar by a male who bought her a vodka and lemonade.
The youngster – like many clubbers on the Spanish island aged just 17 – was tended to by panicked friends in a shop doorway as she complained of being unable to move her legs.
Despite laying beneath an advert which asked ‘need a doctor?’, the female refused an ambulance or medical help.
She told passing onlookers: ‘I’ve been here an hour. I can’t stand up.
‘Girls, you need to be careful. Please be careful.’
MailOnline reporters helped the young female to her feet before supporting her up a steep hill that led to her hotel, where concierge staff and a holiday rep took over.
Her friend told us: ‘Three years I’ve been drinking with her and I’ve never seen her like this.
‘We’ve done the same amount of shots. I’m fine and she is not. She’s definitely been spiked. We know who it was.’
Nearby, a clubber begged local police for help after his friend had been pepper-sprayed.
As night turned towards daylight, heated scenes erupted on the strip as a cluster of England and Scotland fans clashed.
A brief pushing match ensued as the rowdy revellers chanted in support of their respective home nations.
Spanish police officers armed with batons put a stop to lairy Scotland fans marching down the strip singing ‘Super John McGinn’.
Meanwhile a woman in her bra and underwear gave short-shrift to Magaluf’s toughened rules against stripping off in public.
She paraded along the strip barefoot after a dip in the sea alongside two males in black boxer shorts.
Scotland still have a chance of progressing to the Euro 2024 knockouts despite only managing a 1-1 draw with Switzerland, having been thumped by Germany on Friday.
They must beat Hungary to have any chance of qualifying from Group A – and likely need to be named among the best third place finishers.
Young Scotland fans in Magaluf retained hope as ‘blood rain’ – the result of a weather phenomenon that covered the resort in red Saharan dust – fell.
One supporter scrawled ‘No Scotland, no party’ in dusty deposits left on one car, while others used Scotland flags to cover themselves from the elements.
Magaluf is now bracing itself for more boozy England fans flooding the strip ahead of the blockbuster Euros clash with Denmark later today. (THURS)
A spokesman for Calvia Council, responsible for one of two forces responsible policing in Magaluf, said: ‘Local police will intensify their efforts to guarantee the safety of tourists and residents the days of key matches, such as those that involve teams like England.’
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As they did for Sunday’s clash with Serbia, masses of England fans on holiday on the party island are set to descend on The Square, near to the infamous strip, where huge TV screens have been installed.
The spokesman said: ‘We have established strict regulations for the installation of TV screens inside and outside public establishments.
‘Those regulations include the obligation to obtain a licence to initiate and exercise activity, as well as the obligation to present documentation on the sound level limiter, if applicable.’
Magaluf has attracted young Brits hoping to get drunk, party and have sex for well over 20 years.
But officials have been clamping down quickly on rabid tourists this summer amid growing anti-tourism protests from islanders fed-up of rampaging revellers and mass tourism.
In a bid to toughen up, partygoers now face penalties of between €500 and €1,500 (£430 and £1,290) if their street drinking ‘disrupts coexistence, involves crowds or deteriorates the tranquillity of the environment’.
In recent days, a 29-year-old Canadian tourist was arrested over an alleged rape. An Irishman, 21, was detained on suspicion of peddling cocaine and ecstasy on the Punta Ballena strip, while police held a Brazilian and Senegalese couple in their thirties on suspicion of stealing a tourist’s phone.