The 'if' may have been well-placed

In response to the story on the Oasis website, the police in Munich have rejected Oasis' claims they were victims of a unprovoked attack and accused Liam of bad violence on a policeman.

Curiously, the official Oasis line is that the youths who had attacked them had fled before the police arrived, which would raise the question of why Liam needed to be subdued if the source of his ire - the mysterious attackers - had long since run away...