The creepy stories of what happened in Paris continue to emerge and while the French authorities are looking to play the blame game, and Real Madrid fans experienced the same dangerous problems.
Bottlenecks, kettle, tear gas, local gangs and the total mismanagement of a situation did not cause any concern for the safety of the fans before the Champions League final.
The horror stories of Liverpool fans continue to come out and the club is taking action in the face of the cover-up of French authorities, which President Tom Werner described as a “fault-playing strategy”.
Unsurprisingly, the rhetoric of French Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera and others has been alleging fake tickets and “no-entry British fans” for the chaos that unfolded.
But not only did Liverpool fans experience the brutality, Real Madrid fans were also subjected to the horrors of that night and acknowledged that only the patience of the Reds prevented the tragedy.
Manolo Lama, who commented on the match for Radio Cope Cope in Spain via the Daily Mail, said: “.
And the Madrid fan, Gabriel Sáez, also speaking on Radio Cope, recounted the scenes he witnessed with his wife and five children.
“We are lucky to be talking about Madrid’s victory and not a tragedy. There was no sign of the tickets, “he said.
“We followed other fans to the only place where we could advance to the stadium. It was a bottleneck and imagine the scene: I have children aged eight, 12, 15, 20 and 24 years.
“English fans have a bad reputation, but I never saw any problems. They were showing a lot of patience. There are many doors to access this stadium.
“I was there to watch a France-Ireland rugby match and there was no problem, but they only opened two or three doors with those bottlenecks.
“There were no police or administrators there [as local youths ran riot]. My daughter was crying, my wife was terrified.
“Then another group of Spanish supporters appeared and they were bleeding. They had gone through the same thing but clearly more violent. “
The scenes after the final whistle were just as horrible and terrifying, as the TV screenwriter Juan de Val explained: “We had to walk about 1.5 km to our bus. I’m not an easy person to scare, but I was very scared.
“When we got on the bus, there were people coming up behind us who had been robbed.”
It was supposed to be a day of celebration for both groups of supporters, and yet it ended like a day they would like to forget, but they will never do, and the subsequent cover-up of the French authorities is another insult.