If there is one positive thing about events outside the Stade de France on Saturday night, it is that the police emitted tear gas and terrorized all the right people.
the daughter of Sir Kenny Dalglish; the hero of the 1981 European Cup final; brother of Joel Matip; Gary Lineker; the director of the women’s game of the Football Association; couple of Thiago Alcantara; the Daily Mail Golf Correspondent; the family of Jason McAteer.
Not that they deserve it. No one deserved it. But the fact that he has succeeded means that thousands of ordinary sympathizers, who would not have believed otherwise, will now be heard.
French police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool fans outside the stadium
Because we know that Kelly Cates is not a hooligan, and neither is Alan Kennedy, 67, nor Marvin Matip, nor Kelly Simmons, nor Julia Vigas, nor Derek Lawrenson and her son, Conor, nor Mrs. McAteer.
So if they were caught in the chaos outside the stadium, it exposes the lies told by UEFA, the police and the French state to cover up their own ineptitude during the night.
If it happened to them, it probably happened to others, those who usually have no voice and find it difficult to make their stories heard.
Why would you imagine if only regular fans were treated in this way? Who would be its defenders? It only takes a 10-second clip of a few guys climbing a fence, and we don’t even know they were Liverpool supporters, there were a few local youngsters occupying the stairs at the far end of Liverpool, out of skepticism. to catch.
Look at the Real Madrid fans, they didn’t seem to have any problems. It’s so new. Always the victims, it’s never your fault.
The chaos outside the Stade de France saw fans with tickets waiting in line.
The French state said the fake tickets were circulating “on an industrial scale” and that between 30,000 and 40,000 Liverpool fans arrived with fakes or no tickets.
He left thousands of fans unable to enter the Stade de France for the Champions League final
However, Real Madrid received a different treatment. A French friend told me a week before the match that Paris was ready for the arrival of Liverpool; that Madrid’s fan park was more central, while Liverpool’s was in the barren east of the city, near the end of the line.
At the end of the match, while the commissioners were facing the end of Madrid, the riot police confronted Liverpool fans, part of a fictional narrative that was a source of trouble and that violence could break out at any moment.
It was all part of the cover-up, the implication that Liverpool fans had misbehaved.
Gathering in a confrontational manner as they did was the limitation of the damage by the French police, who will have felt the growing feelings of indignation at their handling of the party.
However, there was no problem, no situation that requires control. When the final whistle sounded, most fans simply turned to leave, as fans do when their team has lost a final. There was no desire for hostility.
The riot police stayed there, irrelevant and unnecessary, keeping Paris safe from the handful of Liverpool fans who stayed to greet his team and watch the presentation of the trophy. Most just wanted to go home.
Kelly Cates and Gary Lineker call UEFA on Twitter after tear gas from fans
Reputation cleaning began on Monday. Gerald Darmanin, France’s interior minister, said the fake tickets were circulating on an “industrial scale” and that between 30,000 and 40,000 Liverpool fans arrived with fakes or no tickets.
Similarly, Liverpool’s left-back Andrew Robertson’s friends were told his tickets were fake, even though he supplied them through the club.
So let’s say we should stay healthy and skeptical about the authorities and their ability to detect counterfeits. Are Robertson’s entries included in the alleged counterfeits? The entries we know for sure were real.
Darmanin said 62,000 Liverpool fans traveled to the Stade de France, despite an allocation of 19,618 tickets, and that 70% of the tickets presented were fake. Really?
How do they know? Because these look like pretty specific numbers and percentages, while what we saw on Gate Y and elsewhere suggests chaos during which strict record keeping was probably successful.
The apology was coming fast. It was also argued that the Stade de France had a three-month deadline for an event that would normally have to be planned for a year.
It is a pity that this is what has to happen for the common followers to be believed
But why would a national stadium need 12 months of preparation to watch a football game? The Stade de France has celebrated the final of the World Cup, the European final, and this was its third Champions League final. There are blueprints on how big events work.
And three months is not in a hurry. The World Baseball Series is sometimes organized just 48 hours in advance. No one demanded this from Paris.
Still, they might have come out with this bottle incompetence had it not been for the indiscriminate nature of the recipients.
If it weren’t for the fact that these dangerous clowns were so incompetent, they managed to drag Lineker into chaos, claiming that the club’s tickets were fake and the players ’wives and families splashed with pepper.
And it’s a shame that this has to happen for ordinary fans to believe. But fans have known about UEFA’s shortcomings for years. However, when Kelly Cates calls them “lost losses” on Twitter, it means something could finally be done.
The Wimbledon relic was finally abandoned
Why the crackdown on changes to the Wimbledon board of honor? It was absolutely archaic for Chris Evert’s 1981 individual title to be credited to Mrs. JM Lloyd instead of the player herself.
And why was marital status even a factor for women? The only shock is that the All England Club took so long to tackle this relic.
Can Bale really say he won the final five?
Roy Keane is not considered to have won the Champions League with Manchester United in 1999. Despite doing more than anyone in the semi-final against Juventus to get there, he was penalized for the final and, in his opinion , the medal does not count.
Jimmy Greaves felt the same way about his late medal for the 1966 World Cup.
He only picked it up out of politeness. Newspapers campaigned for the entire team to receive medals, as is the case now, but Jimmy never believed it.
It is therefore strange to see that nine Real Madrid players are now credited with winning five Champions League finals, because that is not exactly the case.
Gareth Bale picked up his fifth Champions League winning medal with Real Madrid on Saturday
There are three players who have started all five games – Dani Carvajal, Luka Modric and Karim Benzema – but none of the other six – Gareth Bale, Marcelo, Isco, Casemiro, Nacho and Toni Kroos – have played five winning finals.
Surely, since we are talking about records in the modern era — the all-time record is the six final winners of Paco Gento’s European Cup with Real Madrid between 1956 and 1966, playing 90 minutes each — we need make a distinction.
Bale, for example, has played seven minutes of Champions League football this season, three minutes against Paris Saint-Germain and four against Chelsea; Isco did not throw any ball in the entire competition.
Keane has always seemed to be hard on himself during 1999, but to suggest that Isco’s contribution is equal to Modric’s is certainly a pretension.
The terrible and costly Yorkshire disaster
Yorkshire’s decision to lay off 16 employees following the Azeem Rafiq racism scandal always seemed like a knee-jerk reaction under pressure from the ECB.
Failing to respond and investigate properly, they made a big round of layoffs, which tarnished the reputation and ruined careers, often without evidence.
As expected, this will be costly, with £ 1.9 million set aside to meet the unfair dismissal demands of six of the 16. What a terrible disaster this has been.
From start to finish, Yorkshire has misbehaved, and the ECB’s pressure on them has largely translated into a scapegoat. Few have come up with credit.
The failure of the top four could cost Arsenal a lot
Tottenham could have received a good offer from Liverpool for Son Heung-min this summer, but their suitors were discouraged when Antonio Conte’s side finished fourth.
Meanwhile, recently on this page, it was argued that Arsenal could soon be harassed by the investment project in Newcastle, as they did before from Manchester City.
Some Arsenal fans were skeptical. Representatives of the club’s brightest prospect, Bukayo Saka, have now emerged, pushing for an exclusion clause in his contract. And so it begins. Think Fill, think Saka. This was not a good year to miss Champions League football.
Representatives of Bukayo Saka have been seen pushing for an exemption clause in their contract
Kirchner will take Derby on a rough trip
It’s no wonder how gaining control of a football club separates a solid business mind from its balls. Chris Kirchner, the new owner of Derby, will not use his software company to sponsor the club’s shirts. He believes that this type of promotion is more fruitful for consumer brands. So far so good.
He added that Derby would be a great partner for a local company, such as Rolls-Royce. However, Rolls-Royce is a high-end manufacturer of a high-end luxury product. The Derby has just been relegated to Ligue 1 in the midst of a financial crisis.
Why would Rolls-Royce want to associate its brand with Derby? If that’s the level of business knowledge Kirchner brings to the club, it could be a bumpy trip.
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