UEFA itself bears “primary responsibility” for failures which “almost led to disaster” at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris between Liverpool and Real Madrid, a report commissioned by the European football body said Monday.
The report also claimed the policing model was influenced by a view of Liverpool based on the deadly 1989 Hillsborough disaster on incorrect assumptions that Liverpool supporters were a threat to public order.
The report said that the panel “has concluded that UEFA, as event owner, bears primary responsibility for failures which almost led to disaster.”
