Champions League Final , Sat 28th May '22

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'Fortunate we're not talking about a major disaster'​

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Henry Winter
Chief Football Writer for the Times on BBC Breakfast
There was an incompetence from the authorities - there was a lack of leadership, poor stewarding, the police being twitchy. They were indiscriminately going and pepper spraying and then tear gas through the fences towards the Liverpool fans.
I was in the press box when they made the first announcement about the game being delayed because of the "late arrival of fans". Fans did not arrive late - they were arriving on time. You know that for games like this fans want to get to the ground early and some were queuing for two-three hours because of the strange configuration of the Stade de France when you come up for the Metro. That was exasperated by some of the blocks that they'd put in place.
We are fortunate that we're not talking about a major disaster this morning.


No need for an investigation, Henry says that it's all down to the authorities, so clearly no dipper fans were to blame for any of the problems.
You do wonder how this awful set of fans manage to maintain such a hold over the media.
Weird how there didn't appear to be any issues or bother with the Real Madrid fans. Wonder if that was because only fans with valid tickets turned up.
I'm sure the authorities and Police could have done some things better. But when you get people like Klopp telling fans to turn up without tickets, and then they do, in their thousands, it is never going to run smoothly.
 
It's genuinely worrying and very dangerous. I can't understand why fans have gone without tickets. Why have the likes of Klopp etc told people to flock to Paris? I feel for the fans who do have tickets and simply wanted to enjoy their day, but it's so reckless from the individuals who don't.

We're very fortunate we aren't talking about another disaster.
 
BBC

'Fortunate we're not talking about a major disaster'​

70fd6542-dabc-4e01-b1b7-4c0b6cd085c0.jpg

Henry Winter
Chief Football Writer for the Times on BBC Breakfast
There was an incompetence from the authorities - there was a lack of leadership, poor stewarding, the police being twitchy. They were indiscriminately going and pepper spraying and then tear gas through the fences towards the Liverpool fans.
I was in the press box when they made the first announcement about the game being delayed because of the "late arrival of fans". Fans did not arrive late - they were arriving on time. You know that for games like this fans want to get to the ground early and some were queuing for two-three hours because of the strange configuration of the Stade de France when you come up for the Metro. That was exasperated by some of the blocks that they'd put in place.
We are fortunate that we're not talking about a major disaster this morning.


And then this:

there were some ticketless fans who did try and get in, but the people I saw trying to climb the fences were predominantly local kids.

No need for an investigation, Henry says that it's all down to the authorities, so clearly no dipper fans were to blame for any of the problems. Apparently, all those vids posted on here last night of people climbing the fences were local kids in dipper shirts!
You do wonder how this awful set of fans manage to maintain such a hold over the media.
Haha Yeah one of the videos I saw was deffo locals you could tell the French accent anywhere haha, "hey La open the gates let us in La" with Liverpool shirts on

It's obvious these journos haven't seen what we've seen posted online and when they do I fully expect their attitudes to change, if it doesn't we all will know we have a major issue for definate in this country with the media and Liverpool FC

They will basically be given a green light to do what the fuck they want and that is only going to end with once again serious injury or death for some poor soul
 
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