Disabled Liverpool fan, 13, crushed and girl, 7, tear gas sprayed in Champions League chaos

The head of Liverpool's Disabled Supporters' Association spent much of last week asking questions of UEFA's decision to only make a quarter of wheelchair bays at Stade de France available to supporters for Saturday night's Champions League final.

Now Ted Morris is thankful for the "operational issues" and "poor infrastructure" that meant the bays were instead designated to TV crews, including BT Sport, because it spared dozens more vulnerable fans from being subjected to the violence and chaos that affected several thousand outside the stadium before and after the defeat to Real Madrid.

As UEFA face increased pressure to apologise for poor logistical planning that saw innocent supporters attacked and teargassed and the French sports minister reasserts a baseless claim that ticketless Liverpool fans were to blame, Morris has outlined some of what he witnessed to Mirror Football in scenes that he described as the most distressing he has experienced as a football fan.

Those included…

A 13-year-old wheelchair user who remains traumatised after being stuck in a crush outside the ground

Another wheelchair user having a French steward fall on him

A distressed blind supporter being ignored as he waved his cane in search of assistance

“Hundreds” of young men throwing missiles and aiming to attack innocent supporters outside the stadium after the match with no police presence

And a young girl, estimated to be about seven years old, being consoled by her father after police used tear gas spray at the entrance to a train station as they tried to make their way back to Paris

Morris said: “You'd not think, even today, that we've been to a Champions League final because the football was irrelevant. I’m not being overdramatic but