This is what PSG did the same night they did their bit to protect lives , operation white wash is well underway, it's all UEFA fault has turned into it's the governments fault, in andy Robertson words " I cant wait to get athletico to Anfield in front of our fans' , disgraceful comment.
You do know that most of Europe, the main countries anyway, had Covid restrictions in place before us? Including France! We were one of the last. Do you really think a club can go against government advice or the government change their stance to suit the club (Why didn’t they stop Cheltenham 1 or 2 days later).
You still didn’t provide the link. It was a disgrace that match went ahead, and that’s not hindsight, it was a disgrace 3000 Madrid fans flew into our City when they weren’t even allowed to attend a home game. It was a disgrace Cheltenham went ahead also. That’s our government for you, Boris has a lot to answer for, especially at the start of the pandemic. There were flights coming into the uk from virus hotspots like Italy right upto the lockdown, no test, no quarantine. That man & his cronies have a lot to answer for. You seem to be desperate to blame the RS when we have one of the most incompetent idiots ever to run our country.
This is from the Guardian….
The
preliminary report on the handling of the Covid-19 crisis by the government and Boris Johnson was published on Tuesday. It praises some elements, notably the response of NHS workers to a national emergency. It describes a series of delayed responses and muddled procedures.
On page 34 it states, with a startling clarity, that 37 people died unnecessarily because of the decision to stage the Champions League match between Liverpool and Atlético Madrid at Anfield on 11 March, just as the shutters were going down all over Europe.
This conclusion is reached during a summary of the tactics in those early days. There was an understandable state of ignorance of where this was heading. Still, there was also a certainty – exactly why is still not clear – that taking too many measures at once would be wrong. The day before Anfield, Johnson had talked on national TV about “taking it on the chin” and “allowing the disease, as it were, to move through the population”. And so, chin raised and fingers crossed, the herd headed off to Anfield.
The report concludes: “This approach meant that events that may have spread the virus proceeded, such as the football match between Liverpool FC and
Atlético Madrid – the day the coronavirus was categorised as a pandemic by the WHO – and the Cheltenham Festival of Racing … Subsequent analysis suggest that there were an additional 37 and 41 deaths respectively at local hospitals after these events.
The report suggests this was an avoidable consequence, sport’s allocation of what would, in any other iteration of the national mood, be treated as a genuine scandal. Will anyone be held to account for these deaths? They deserve, at the very least, some space.
I was at Anfield that night. It was not an event staged in a state of ignorance. Italy had shut down its football. The rugby had been postponed. There were questions to Jürgen Klopp the day before. Should this be going ahead? Klopp seemed torn between his private misgivings (basically: no, it shouldn’t) and the obligation to do his job and manage the people around him.
Three thousand Spanish fans had travelled to
Liverpool, despite the fact schools had shut down in Madrid.