Treatment of Liverpool and Rangers fans means it's time to take a stand after UEFA's tear gas and toilet water shame

Went to see Top Gun the other night.

Was told to be there three hours before the screening began because it was going to be busy, so I did as I was told.

Hung about outside with hundreds like me who had obeyed orders and got there early. It began to get busy so we moved out onto the street, only to be herded back onto a pavement that isn’t wide enough to take us all by baton-wielding cops. We didn’t move quickly enough for their liking and there were elderly people and kids also anxious to see the movie and we were trying to look after them and telling the cops to back off. So they pepper-sprayed us all.

There was panic. Pandemonium, folk getting trampled, battered and bruised. We’d only come to see a movie, for God’s sake.

Then when it all calmed down and we eventually got to our seats, traumatised, we were told it was all our fault. Got there too late and loads of you tried to get in with fake tickets. And if you’re thirsty, there’s plenty of water in the toilets.

Okay, that didn’t happen. But can you imagine the reaction if it did? If movie or theatre-goers were treated with the same blatant disregard for their health and well-being?

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So how come then, that when football fans are treated like that,