Irish Examiner view: Uefa primarily at fault for Champions League final chaos

The fact that innocent parties were blamed only underlines Uefa’s haste to abdicate its responsibilities.

Fans waiting outside the gates to enter the stadium as kick off is delayed before the UEFA Champions League Final at the Stade de France, Paris, last year.

An independent report into events at last year’s Champions League final, when many Liverpool fans were squeezed into pens and endured dangerous crushing, has laid the blame for the chaotic scenes outside the Stade de France in Paris at the door of Uefa, the competition’s organisers.

While the French police and the French Football Federation do not emerge unscathed from the investigation either, the report states that Uefa bears primary responsibility for an incident which almost turned into a “mass fatality catastrophe”.