The ground was full by kick off, hundreds were standing in the rows between seats, there were visibly (from TV footage) Liverpool fans in Madrid end. They got 20k tickets and tens of thousands of other Liverpool fans attended, overwhelming the police and stewards. It’s not hard to work out what has gone on
allied with that there is masses of media reporting of fake tickets being sold on Merseyside. And social media evidence of jibbing in.
a disaster was a very real possibility.
hopefully genuine football fans, Liverpool fans, and journalists will open up the debate here about wider criminality and it’s effect on the safety of genuine fans