Scouseinthehouse
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Telling yer. That is still the overriding feeling you are left with. Both in the crush before the game (Which I'm convinced would have resulted in fatalities if it had been any other English club there. The level of self-policing and people keeping calm under ridiculously hostile and trying circumstances, down in large part to what we have experienced before at the hands of a Police force with absolutely no regard for your safety, was an enormous credit to all caught up in it), and then in the horrifically violent, orchestrated criminal assaults after, I've honestly never witnessed anywhere. And I've experienced pretty much everything, good and bad, that football has to offer over the years.
The more accounts you hear and read, the more you realise just how fortunate the trauma you experienced could have been far, FAR worse.
I've never encountered a more hostile reception from an opposition Police force/ the ferrel, orchestrated, criminal hordes. Nor have I felt more vulnerable, helpless, and scared absolutely shitless at a game in over three decades. In Paris. In 2022. At the biggest game of all.
Mercifully, this time, as horrible and heart wrenching as the lived accounts are, everything is documented and the lies UEFA and the French they are trying to smear innocent people with won't fly this time and heads will roll. There but for the grace of God we aren't talking about deaths. Many deaths.
