When the last between Liverpool and Genuine Madrid lastly began at 9:37 p.m., the mayhem around the Stade de France was not over yet. “When the number of fans before the stadium remained to climb after the kick-off, the cops drove them apart with tear gas and eliminated of the arena,” claimed UEFA, that revealed their “compassion” to those affected.

And even more: “This brought about a traffic congestion from followers that attempted to get to the arena. Consequently, the kick-off was postponed by 35 mins in order to allow as numerous followers as feasible with actual tickets.”

As necessary, “the hubs on the Liverpool side of countless fans had actually been blocked”, “the phony tickets had actually obtained, which did not work with the turnstile,” claimed a UEFA statement on Saturday evening.