UEFA doubles down on blame of Liverpool fans over Stade de France fiasco in shock senate hearing

UEFA has doubled down on its choice to blame Liverpool fans for the carnage which occurred at the Stade de France last month at the Champions League final between the Reds and Real Madrid.

Liverpool fans including women and children who arrived early for the match were tear gassed by French riot police, forced into dangerous crushes outside locked turnstiles and were denied entry to the stadium despite showing valid tickets.

The European football governing body has already apologised to fans of both clubs for the poor running of the match, but reverted to blaming supporters in a shocking hearing at the French senate on Tuesday morning as part of its inquiry into a fiasco which has dominated news headline in France for almost a month.

The organisation’s CEO of events Martin Kallen made a series of claims about fake tickets, ticketless fans gathering outside the stadium, and poor behaviour of supporters without providing any sort of evidence.

‘Risk evaluation before the match told us that there was a high risk of a pitch invasion and a high risk of a lot of fake tickets,’ Kallen said, without providing any detail about who gave UEFA this information. There is no example in modern history of Liverpool supporters conducting a pitch invasion.

UEFA’s representative to the senate also engaged in what appeared to be an attempt to re-write history. Despite no forgery problems being reported before, during or after Liverpool’s previous Champions League final appearances in 2018 in Kyiv and 2019 in Madrid, Kallen claimed there were.

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