edinburgh123
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I am convinced the truth is in the middleLots of people preferring to believe a right wing French government and it’s military police force rather than scores of independent journalists and onlookers with video evidence, just because it doesn’t suit your agenda.
The organization of this final was a shambles. It’s the authorities jobs to manage a football crowd properly; including dealing with counterfeit tickets. This doesn’t involve kettling fans who turn up 3 hours prior to kick off and indiscriminately spraying them with pepper spray.
Maybe I’m too old for this rivalry stuff…take the piss out if Liverpool because they lost 2 trophies in a week, not because 8 year old kids got kettled and pepper sprayed. Would the police have behaved any differently if City were there? They’d have employed the same tactics.
Any City fan that goes regularly to European away games knows that a number of countries (not just the French) have police who treat you appallingly and are desperate for you to step even slightly out of line so they can go in hard. The problem is with all the fakes some scousers had (and there were clearly loads) that as a result a lot of innocent scousers were impacted. They can thank their own for causing this. The press are also surprised by all this as they don’t notice (or choose not to notice) the way fans are always treated before and after games every other European game