2021-22 UEFA Champions League

Can't imagine many Liverpool fans are falling for him attempting to ingratiate himself to them after the way he betrayed them...

It's not even just that.

They beat every top team on the way. In terms of the 'hit list', it was definitive. They beat them all.

Liverpool are the "team to beat" and so are City and PSG are not far off it 🤣

Fair play to Real.

Think Real can take that crown as well on teams beat...

R.Madrid: Man City, Chelsea, Psg, Inter

Liverpool: Villareal, Benfica, Inter, Milan.

I mean its not even debatable, pool definitely had it harder......

Find that amazing cause was I very same stadium in 2004, 09 and 16 and security was some of best I have seen. No issues during Euros or the last CL finals there.

Pity.

Best I can think is that it was a result of the Euros final and they didn't want to repeat that. But at the same time if you actually don't want any trouble, why the hell have you understaffed the whole stadium and kept gates closed?? That's what's so weird, it's like they wanted it to happen. Or, more likely, when they realised they had fucked up on the security and ticket checks their strategy changed to provoking the crowd so they could then all row behind the "fans are violent" line when they get a reaction.

Overall Macron has supported heavy handed policing so apparently its been getting worse the longer he's been in power. Good few french games forced behind closed doors since pandemic so it's definitely a thing in France now but last night was just chaos for the sake of it. There was no reason.

The fact that UEFA lied twice about the delay without doing any sort of investigation, and the French minister for sport this morning saying it was "the English" causing violence tells you everything you need to know.

And they'll get away with it and continue to get big sporting events. Because the cover up works. Blame the fans, blame anyone but themselves, and because of the tribal nature of football you'll have fans of other clubs lazily (or willingly) parroting their lies as banter or a way to put down fans of a particular club. It's already happening on twitter with some disgusting comments bringing up past tragedies.

This wasn't the fault of Liverpool and Real Madrid fans. Appalling way to run a massive event - I know they only got it switched a few months ago from Russia but still - appalling

It wasn't ticketless 'fans' allowed upthe stadium, it was ticketless locals. Weren't from either side they were just allowed free reign by the police. Loads tried hopping the fences and plenty of reports of pickpocketing and blatant snatching of tickets from people's hands.

Overall as Kew Tour said its just thankful that nobody was very seriously hurt. Some slashing apparently after the game from same local youths but honestly feel it could have ended up much much worse.

there's plenty of journalists telling their stories now as they were caught up in it. This one from Rob Draper explains it well, and if you're already familiar with going to games there you'll be able to how this was policed differently

Have been in Stade de France a few times and the surrounding area is dog rough. Lots of shady characters.

Fantastic stadium though and generally well organised. Last night just sounds like a **** show.

Some media had used the phrase ticketless fans that's why I am questioning was it actually true.

The ticketless scumbag is a given at this stage.

There was a story on Guardian Football Weekly last weekend about Everton players being made to do a parade with the Liverpool players after coming 2nd to them in both the FA Cup and league back in the 80s

This video really speaks for itself. A guy trying to scan his ticket is just pepper sprayed.

Outside of the fact that prck pepper sprayed an innocent bystander it's also just such a stupid weapon in those situations. Half the time it ends up getting half the people around the target including the security team.

I was in the fanzone all day and then got the train up towards the ground after the music finished. I didn't have a ticket but was with people who did so I got off a couple of stops before to go into a pub I knew. Train was obviously packed with fans going to the game and this was before 6pm (9pm kickoff). So I knew by kickoff that the UEFA statement wasn't right that fans showed up late.

Was texting with people in the 'queue' and they hadn't been told the game was delayed they thought they were just going to miss the whole thing as they just weren't being allowed through.

It was only a couple of hours after the game when I met up again and realised how bad it had been. I left other people who watched in the fanzone and they just got onto me 30mins ago and said they were tear gassed too.

I was lucky I left the fanzone and just stuck to the pub. More stories keep coming out from fans up at the ground and it's just grim.

Would have been much worse had we won the game, everybody would have been out all night and there were definitely dodgy people around most places. The loss meant most just went straight back to hotels.

What happened before and during the game with the police and the fans definitely put a big dampener on the whole occasion. It was clear what was happening too from the outset. The camera shots of the stadium showed a half empty end, something that is not normal.

Luckily there was no serious injuries, that we know of yet, but there was massive potential for it. Kettling fans down narrow avenues blocking them off with police fans, delaying the massive crowds. The whole fake ticket line is clearly lies as even fans with tickets distributed by the clubs were told that they were fake.

Teargassing fans with tickets for no reason. Teargassing the fan parks nowhere near the stadium.

Shambles.

There was a clip posted earlier and I did get a smile at the lad calmly speaking to a cop in French with a very thick Scouse accent.

Funny enough Paris holds massive events in full stadia all the time and it's all fine.

Obviously something was done different and needs to be sorted.