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The French sports minister has apologised to Liverpool fans with tickets who could not get into the Champions League final - but Amélie Oudéa-Castéra insisted British fans arrived too late and in a disorganised way.

And the French authorities have claimed there were between 30,000-40,000 fans at the Stade de France who either had false tickets or no tickets at all. Liverpool fans have claimed they were attacking indiscriminately with tear gas and pepper spray by the French police - and no action was taken to protect them leaving the stadium.

The French government called a crisis meeting with UEFA, the mayor of Paris and the French FA today. Oudéa-Castéra made the claims at a press conference held at the French Ministry of Sport.

She said: “The first element, the route cause of all that was the volume of false tickets or persons without any tickets. This is clearly something we have to understand. This is why we have asked UEFA to really dig into that. It is going to be complementary to the approach that we have launched on our side on the legal side to understand why such a big volume, what happened. This is the really the key cause of everything. Then we know that there were a number of adverse circumstances which made the situation even