At midmorning, however, most marchers carried only their standard placards.
In an interview with the Evening Standard, Knight was pictured with a placard bearing the slogan "Eat the bankers", and quoted as saying: "If they [the police] want violence, they'll get it".
Sam Monro, the 16-year-old standard-bearer from Sandwich who carried the placard displaying Millar's mounting score, was shivering uncontrollably.
When we headed out into central London today, we expected those gathered with their anti-cut placards to fall into that standard student protest routine of hanging around waiting for other people to do something violent.
Five of the six photos were standard mug shots: men in police custody, holding up placards and gazing away from the camera.
In what would normally be a moment of unbridled national pride, demonstrators held up placards demanding schools and hospitals at the "FIFA standard," challenging the money Brazil is spending on the World Cup instead of on health care or the poorly financed public schools.
In uninterrupted sun, the people in the grandstands sit patiently for several hours before the first trooping group (the golfers, the dromedary caddies, the rules official, the walking scorer, the standard-bearer straight out of the Tenth Legion holding up a placard bearing the names of the players and their current scores) appears on the fairway, approaches, arrives, chips, putts, and moves on.
After testing, a green or red color placard was placed on each well based on compliance with the Bangladesh standard for As in drinking water.
"NO POLICE state", demanded one placard.
