Brazil's humiliating semifinal loss did spark some disturbances across the country.
The area saw some of the worst unrest in March 2008 as riots in Lhasa sparked wider disturbances across the Tibetan plateau.
Four weeks on, the people of Tottenham still describe their state of "shock" and "bereavement" over the riots which sparked copycat disturbances in English towns and cities.
The Reading the Riots research indicates that a significant factor in sparking the disturbances was the humiliation, unjust suspicion, lack of respect and targeting that characterises the way rioters felt police carry out stop and search.
Much of that story centred on the escape of a teenage detainee from his isolation cell in the behavioural management unit, sparking a disturbance that guards responded to with teargas.
The Police Federation of Northern Ireland has called for tougher action against the Ulster Volunteer Force, which, it alleged, was behind the disturbances sparked by Belfast city council's decision to limit the days the union flag could be flown at city hall.
The disturbances were sparked by "demagogues", the new king said, including "certain politicians who couldn't control the crowd".
Somewhere in the distance, obscured by tent and trees, fireworks from another event rumbled during a lithe, muscular performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 5. Happily for the audience Mr. Robertson and his players mustered sufficient spark to offset the disturbance.
The riot sparked a series of disturbances in prisons across England, Scotland and Wales, resulting in the British government announcing a public inquiry into the riots headed by Lord Woolf.
Worse, the restrictions can spark violence, self-injury and disturbances, such as the riot in Bedford prison".
