Only in Britain could debauched New Year celebrations be raised to classical levels.
A picture of debauched behaviour in a street in Manchester on New Year's Eve has gone viral after it was turned into a series of hilarious memes on social media.
The original photograph - posted by Roland Hughes on Twitter - looks like a tableau of drunkenness, with police grappling with a young man in the foreground while being shouted at by a woman in a fur coat.
A group of youngsters gather in the background on the chaotic Well Street, in front of a Superdry clothes shop and Greggs bakery, watching the mayhem while clutching takeaway boxes.
Meanwhile, an older man dressed in blue is splayed in the middle of the road, clutching a beer bottle in his outstretched hand while his T-shirt rides up over his belly.
