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Jamie Carragher has become the latest high-profile figure to slam UEFA for their handling of Saturday's Champions League final.

Before their side's agonising 1-0 defeat to Real Madrid, Liverpool supporters were tear-gassed and stranded in queues for hours outside of the Stade de France in Paris, with riot police even deployed. UEFA initially put them blame on "the late arrival of fans" before later claiming that the attempted use of fake tickets caused a blockage, forcing kick-off to be delayed three times and marring the clash between two European heavyweights.

After Kenny Dalglish, Gary Lineker, Andy Robertson and Jason McAteer criticised the governing body responsible for organising the showpiece event, club legend Carragher joined the seething outrage. The ex-Reds defender stated in his Telegraph column that whoever sanctioned the initial message - branded a "lie" - "should be identified and forced to explain on what grounds it was made."

"It can be taken as a positive that UEFA were forced to retreat from their initial explanation," Carragher wrote in an impassioned piece. "They had no choice because so many viral social media videos proved thousands of fans were being prevented from getting close to the stadium over two-and-a-half-hours before the scheduled kick-off. "

The former Anfield stalwart then went on to praise journalists and eagled-eyed social media users,