One week since Lille- Man U crowd troubles

And still the crowd trouble itself hasn't even been acknowledged by UEFA. Let alone been condemned.



It seems like France are going to escape yet again (and so will ManU).

Newly appointed head of UEFA and Frenchman Michel Platini had the chance to show character and adress and acknowledge the problems, and find the ones to blame. Yet when a French team, city, police or stadium needs to curbed there's no-one to find.
Problem is that unlike Feyenoord, a small club from a relatively insignificant league, Manchester United are too big a fish to blame it all on.
Even though Feyenoord did much more to prevent any possible mishaps than last week's matchup - they did everything in their power even warned those frogs - when trouble broke out, guess who's banned now!


It will all be brushed under that famous French carpet. Life will go on as if nothing happened.

It will not change the fact that twice within four months the French instances and clubs seriously failed and were nearly responsible for lost lives.
However, one time they get to blame the 'smaller fish', the other time they pretend nothing ever happened.

The next time it happens again (within a year probably), we'll hear that no-one could have foreseen possible deaths.
And nevermind that the Eredivisie gets to carry the burden of French ineptitude.

They should be thrown out of Europe, what is it with European bodies letting the French get away with everything.

Ps what did united do, that they are getting away with?

He's not saying that Man U did anything, just that UEFA can't blame it on them as they did on Feyenoord.

Roger Hunt wrote:He's not saying that Man U did anything, just that UEFA can't blame it on them as they did on Feyenoord.

Or rather won't. They couldn't blame Feyenoord either, yet they did and even got them banned.

ok

Its all Lille's fault anyhow, the fact they're getting away with this is a complete farce!

Anyhow, I'm fuming after watching a Sepp Blatter interview yesterday on CNN.SI talking about football in February.
They were talking about February being such a violent month in European football; they manged to talk about every incident including the Juande Ramos bottling, yet NOT A SINGLE WORD WAS SAID OVER CROWD TROUBLES AT LILLE!

To make matters worse and cloud the issue and judgement even worse, Blatter managed to use the crucifixion of Feyenoord as an example that FIFA doesn't tolerate violence and is taking measures to stop, and I quote Blatter here, "hooligans like the Feyenoord ones to ruin the game".
He proceeded to say that the banning of Feyenoord is what happens when hooligans step out of line - and managed to completely give a one-sided and WRONG accounts and also miraculously sidestep the crowd trouble and near-Heysel-like incident at the Stadium of Lens.