Magaluf mayhem through the eyes of Spanish cops: MailOnline joins local night patrol as England fans drink away their gloom after dismal Denmark draw... but it wasn't just Brits who ended up the worse for wear

They came to see England secure a place in the last 16, so England fans in Magaluf were disappointed not to see their heroes win on the pitch last night.

But whatever the result in Germany, they were always going to party to excess on the streets, bars and clubs of Magaluf.

MailOnline journalists were taken on patrol by the Policia Local in Magaluf to show us first-hand the problem they face from thousands of boozed-up Brits in the resort which has been one of the factors fuelling the anti-tourism movement in Mallorca.

As our police patrol car drew to its first halt in a parking space, a drunken young English woman, singing and dancing to the fans’ anthem Vindaloo, nearly stumbled into the path of the vehicle.

Turning around and mouthing a quick ‘sorry’ to the officers, she sheepishly staggered back onto the pavement and continued her unsteady way onto the next nightclub.

The police officers exchanged a weary smile and began their slow crawl through the streets.

‘I don’t know why they get this way when they come here,’ said one officer on the patrol.

‘Maybe alcohol is so much cheaper here than in England, Germany and Scandinavia, and maybe they drink more than they are used to and you see the result.’

The results were indeed plain to see as the daylight faded and the ‘strip’, a 600m long pulsating, neon-lit thoroughfare of bars and strip clubs slicing through the middle of Magaluf, officially called Carrer Punta Ballena, came to life for another drink- and drug-fuelled night.

Privately, everyone agrees that the Brits are the worst when it comes to drink, and as they make up by far the majority of Magaluf’s visitors, they’re certainly the most obvious, whether wearing England shirts as last night, or Scotland’s the night before.

Officially, strict anti-social behaviour laws ban carrying alcohol in glass bottles and walking around in bikinis – or bare-chested for men – in public places. But the reality is starkly different. 

Teenage girls saunter around barely clothed or in underwear and there’s no shortage of shirtless young men, with their ever-present Bellingham shirts tied around their waist.

‘We cannot arrest them all,’ said one officer with a shrug.

He admitted that in the last ten years, the situation had ‘slightly improved’, and was hopeful that would continue.

Last night was, by all accounts, a quiet night for Magaluf and the most dramatic case of alcohol abuse we saw was a 17-year-old Dane, who was lying insensible, covered in his own vomit outside a tattoo parlour.

The Policia Local officers tried to speak to him but he was unconscious so they called an ambulance. 

Eventually the paramedics were able to get a response, albeit a slurred one, and he was taken back to his hotel by two friends to sleep it off.

Much later, we also saw one young Briton carrying his drunken mate in a fireman’s lift for the long trudge back to the safety of their hotel as the grey light of dawn began to bring proceedings to a close.

Another group of revellers made their way home with a giant inflatable unicorn, carried aloft and another England fan could be seen asleep outside a pub with a glass of orange, or possibly something stronger, in front of him on the table.

An English girl on the beach could be seen throwing up as her boyfriend tended to her, but in truth such incidents were rare and the prevailing mood was good-natured, not least because the Policia Local officers, and their colleagues in the Guardia Civil, were never far away on the Strip.