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Champions League FINAL - Liverpool 0-1 Real Madrid - Saturday 28th May, 2022


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UEFA has doubled down on its choice to blame Liverpool fans for the carnage which occurred at the Stade de France last month at the Champions League final between the Reds and Real Madrid.

Liverpool fans including women and children who arrived early for the match were tear gassed by French riot police, forced into dangerous crushes outside locked turnstiles and were denied entry to the stadium despite showing valid tickets.

The European football governing body has already apologised to fans of both clubs for the poor running of the match, but reverted to blaming supporters in a shocking hearing at the French senate on Tuesday morning as part of its inquiry into a fiasco which has dominated news headline in France for almost a month.

The organisation’s CEO of events Martin Kallen made a series of claims about fake tickets, ticketless fans gathering outside the stadium, and poor behaviour of supporters without providing any sort of evidence.

UEFA is currently undertaking its own investigation into events at the Stade de France. Kallen warned that this process will take a minimum of three months, and the chastening nature of comments will do little to placate the concerns of supporters worried that the governing body will try to pass the buck to football fans in order to protect its own reputation.

UEFA doubles down on blame of Liverpool fans over Stade de France fiasco in senate shock (msn.com)

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UEFA had the primary responsibility to ensure fan safety, and they failed to deliver on that.

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Liverpool have called on Uefa to "fully and transparently" implement the recommendations made in an independent report on the events before last season's Champions League final.

Fans were penned in and teargassed outside Paris's Stade de France before the match between Liverpool and Real Madrid on 28 May 2022.

The report ruled Uefa bore "primary responsibility" for the chaotic scenes, adding it was "remarkable" no-one died.

Liverpool said "positive and transparent action" must be taken "to ensure there are no more 'near misses'".

The club added the "fundamental safety failings" had "exacerbated the suffering" of the families, friends and survivors of Hillsborough.

"We implore Uefa to fully enact the recommendations as outlined by the panel - no matter how difficult - to ensure supporter safety is the number one priority at the heart of every Uefa football fixture," Liverpool said.

The report - commissioned by Uefa three days after the final which Liverpool lost 1-0 - made 21 recommendations in an attempt to ensure "everything possible is done" to prevent a similar incident happening at a major sporting event.

It also warned French authorities this should be a "wake-up call" before it hosts the 2023 Rugby World Cup and 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.


 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/64634493

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4 minutes ago, LFCMike said:

 

Yes that's a highlight for me in that several Liverpool fans were identified to have helped lots of other fans and actually prevented further injury or even death. Kudos to them. 

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