This review from The Telegraph seems to be highly impressed and underwhelmed at the same time , though the quote about "thugs" is not how i heard the comment made on stage by Daltrey.
"A hits tour was promised, and that is exactly what a loud, ecstatic crowd got. Opening with the barrage of I Can’t Explain, Substitute and The Kids Are Alright, Daltrey and Townshend threw out classics like confetti.
The Who’s music lives or dies on its energy, and that can pose a problem for songs written in the flush of adolescence and played on a pension-boosting 50th anniversary tour. So while Substitute had a syncopated groove, the breathy barks of Daltrey’s vocals deprived it of its natural swagger, and I Can’t Explain was lively but too polite for its own good.It was the slightly later material which flourished. I Can See For Miles was just loud and leery enough, but demonstrated just how much harmonic invention they sneaked into pop songs. Townshend didn’t look like a man desperate to call time on his touring career. Teasing Daltrey, flattering the crowd with the assertion that “Glasgow has a better class of thug” and conducting the band with nods and twitches of his loping, still-rangy body while throwing in a good number of windmills, he seemed in his element."
It was odd to see people looking at facebook on their mobiles whilst The Who were performing hit after hit in front of their face.The poor guy next to me got no likes despite game attempts , any many posts.
The video below i have included because it is quite close to the view i got ( it features "Wont Get Fooled Again"
And this is my all time favourite Who song called Baba O'Riley"
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