Drunken violence during showings of the first of England's World Cup matches on big screens in London and Liverpool has prompted a decision to abandon a plan to show the remaining games.
The ban may be extended to further screenings planned for the centre of Manchester, although in this case it is to do with concern over the numbers of people packing into the city centre to watch the game
Bill Morris, project director BBC
rather than violence.
Transmissions in Liverpool city centre and at Canary Wharf in London were shut down before the end of the match on Saturday after violence in sections of the crowd.
A total of 16 people received minor injuries when fighting broke out in the 6,000-strong London crowd as England laboured to hold onto their 1-0 lead.
At almost the same moment, trouble broke out in front of a big screen in Liverpool's Clayton Square with fans hurling missiles.
Several people were arrested in Liverpool although no-one was injured.
Bill Morris project director for live events at BBC Radio and Music, part of a consortium behind a network of big screens, said that a tiny minority were behind the trouble.
"We were a bit disappointed for the people whose enjoyment was disrupted at the end of the game on the two sites but you have to put it in context".