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Liverpool urge Uefa to act on review recommendations for 'safety of ... (The Guardian)

Liverpool have implored Uefa to fully implement the recommendations made in the damning independent report on last year's Champions League final chaos.

We ask that they work with us and seek our expertise to address these injustices and give young disabled supporters from all corners of Europe hope that one day they can follow their football team in the same way that non-disabled children can. “The report contains important recommendations which are relevant to everyone involved in the delivery of major football events, and positive action should be taken to ensure that this never happens again.” We would expect Uefa and the authorities to act upon each of these. Our thoughts go out to all our fans who have suffered as a result of Paris and we would remind them of the mental health support we put in place in the days following the disaster that was the Uefa Champions League final in Paris.” “We implore Uefa to fully enact the recommendations as outlined by the panel – no matter how difficult – to ensure supporter safety is the number one priority at the heart of every Uefa football fixture.” The club has called on Uefa to transparently implement the report’s 21 recommendations to ensure the safety of all supporters attending a Uefa-organised game.

UEFA, European soccer's governing body, 'primarily responsible' for ... (CNN)

An independent review panel commissioned by UEFA to investigate the 2022 Champions League Final has found that European soccer's governing body bears ...

Our thoughts go out to all our fans who have suffered as a result of Paris and we would remind them of the mental health support we put in place in the days following the disaster that was the UEFA Champions League final in Paris.” UEFA should have retained a monitoring and oversight role, to ensure it all worked,” the report said. “As a football club with (a) proud history in Europe, we call on UEFA to do the right thing and implement the 21 recommendations to ensure the safety of all football supporters attending any future UEFA football match,” the Premier League club added. The panel was headed by Dr. [admitted](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/09/football/champions-league-liverpool-madrid-chaos-police-intl-spt/index.html) that the chaos at the Stade de France was “obviously a failure” and said he took “full responsibility for police management” of the event. [UEFA](http://www.cnn.com/2023/02/09/football/european-super-league-organizers-revamped-competition-spt-intl/index.html) to investigate the 2022 Champions League Final has found that European soccer’s governing body bears “primary responsibility” for the failures of organization that [caused chaos and safety risks](https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/04/football/champions-league-final-liverpool-real-madrid-fans-spt-intl/index.html) outside the Stade de France in Paris, the [report released](https://editorial.uefa.com/resources/027e-174e23083d46-84d25c2e6e55-1000/uclf22_independent_review_report_20230213194627.pdf) on Monday said.

Uefa urged to act after damning report into Champions League final ... (Financial Times)

European football's governing body apologises to Liverpool fans after it is heavily criticised for last year's fiasco.

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Liverpool welcome Uefa report on Champions League final (Free Malaysia Today)

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool welcomed a review into the 2022 Champions League final which said organisers Uefa were responsible for the chaos before the game, ...

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Liverpool slam 'false narratives' as club implores UEFA to act upon ... (Goal.com)

Liverpool have urged UEFA to implement the recommendations made by the independent report into the chaos at last year's Champions League final.

Our thoughts go out to all our fans who have suffered as a result of Paris and we would remind them of the mental health support we put in place in the days following the disaster that was the UEFA Champions League final in Paris. Tiago Brandao Rodrigues, found that UEFA and the French authorities must take "primary responsibility" for the chaos, which could have led to the event becoming a "mass fatality catastrophe". The independent French Senate report published in July 2022 found Liverpool supporters were unfairly and wrongly blamed for the chaotic scenes to divert attention from the real organisational failures.

Liverpool calls for UEFA to guarantee fan safety (Bangkok Post)

LIVERPOOL: Liverpool called on UEFA to do the "right thing" in implementing a series of recommendations after a damning report found European football's ...

The report found there has been "a clear and immediate danger of a fatal crush" and that the action of Liverpool supporters had in fact saved lives. In a statement on Monday, UEFA apologised to Liverpool fans for "unjustly blaming them for the situation leading to the delayed kick-off." LIVERPOOL: Liverpool called on UEFA to do the "right thing" in implementing a series of recommendations after a damning report found European football's governing body responsible for the chaos that surrounded last year's Champions League final in Paris.

Champions League Overcrowding Was a 'Near Miss' for UEFA (The New York Times)

Independent investigators concluded it was only a “matter of chance” that the dangerous scenes at last year's Liverpool-Real Madrid final did not lead to ...

It said UEFA’s president, Aleksander Ceferin, was asked to make a call on delaying the kickoff even though he had not been in the match control room or in contact with security officials; he had been in a meeting with the King of Spain in a V.I.P. “Unfortunately, the enthusiasm around the game rapidly turned into a real ‘near miss’ which was harmful to a significant number of fans from both clubs,” the report said. The report raised new concerns about security preparations for next year’s Summer Olympics in Paris, with its authors describing events around the Champions League final as a “wake-up call” for Olympic organizers. That no lives were lost in the crushes outside the stadium gates, the investigators’ harshly critical report concluded, was only “a matter of chance.” Dangerous bottlenecks, packed entrances and ramps, and tear gas employed by the police — sometimes sprayed indiscriminately at groups of supporters that included children and disabled fans — added to the chaos. The investigation involved hundreds of interviews and the analysis of footage, including many hours of video shot by supporters caught up in the crushes as they tried to enter the stadium.

UEFA 'responsible' for Paris Champions League final chaos: report (The Sun Daily)

PARIS: UEFA itself bears “primary responsibility” for failures which “almost led to disaster” at the 2022 Champions League final in Paris between Live...

“In particular, I would like to apologise to the supporters of Liverpool FC.... “It’s been over eight months of work by the independent panel and it is only right and proper to publish the contents of the report to our supporters appropriately,“ a Liverpool statement said. 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 the city's supporters were a threat to public order.

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