Fans show their tickets as they try to enter the stadium (Picture: AP)
Liverpool have implored Uefa to fully implement all the recommendations made in the highly-critical independent report into last year’s Champions League final chaos.
European football’s governing body commissioned a team to look into issues of dangerous congestion, supporters being attacked by locals and tear-gassed by police plus the all-round operation at the Stade de France in May and it lays the blame on Uefa and the French authorities. The report concluded that Uefa bore ‘primary responsibility for failures’ which almost led to the showpiece final against Real Madrid becoming a ‘mass fatality catastrophe’.
A Liverpool statement read: ‘We call on Uefa and others at the top of the football regulation pyramid to come together and take positive and transparent action to ensure there are no more “near misses”. We were determined to make sure a robust investigation was conducted in order that lessons are learned to ensure the safety of football supporters in Europe is never compromised again.
‘As a football club with proud history in Europe, we call on Uefa to do the right thing and implement the 21 recommendations to ensure the safety of all football supporters attending any future Uefa match.’
Professor Clifford Scott, co-author of the report, said pressure had to be put on Uefa to effect the necessary changes. ‘There have been ample reports before making a whole series of recommendations which have not been followed,’ he said.
‘The conversation we need to have, is how can we pull stakeholders together, including fans, to drive this situation towards one where Uefa is forced to implement the core recommendations of this report.’
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‘We call on Uefa to do the right thing.’
