Liverpool fan’s horrifying Champions League final story with his 11-year-old son

Attending a Champions League final is supposed to be one of the greatest days of a fan’s life, but for many who attended the 2022 edition in Paris it became a nightmare.

We’ve all seen the terrifying fan footage of the events that occurred outside the Stade de France on May 28.

Fans were targeted by French authorities with tear gas, crowds were herded like cattle through restricted spaces, people were turned away at the gate and accused of having ‘fake tickets’, calculated thievery from groups of local gangs – it truly was awful.

But for one dad and son, their experience is among the worst we’ve seen yet.

A Twitter thread has gone viral detailing the harrowing experience they suffered in Paris which we’ve summarised below.

It also includes a video of the horrific scenes.

Their group arrived early for the game, two-and-a-half-hours before the start of the match, however they were held at a fan checkpoint for the majority of that period.

When they were finally allowed to pass through to their designated gate, they joined an unorganised, cramped, mass of supporters that were not being allowed to pass into the arena.

Once there, the family witnessed police hitting supporters that weren’t causing any trouble with batons.

They were also subjected to heavy targeting with toxic tear gas, with both the dad and his son, being sprayed directly in the face by the authorities.

@Matty95Davies and @SEILimitied shared a video to Twitter which captures the unnerving scenes.

Amidst the coughing and screaming, the poor young lad can be heard shouting in panic that it’s “in his eyes” and that he “never wants to go to a game again.”

This is me and my lad at the champions league final. We were going through to gate x after waiting