Lens and Lille blast Blatter over criticism

MANCHESTER UNITED’S controversial Champions League tie with Lille remained in the spotlight yesterday, with FIFA president Sepp Blatter coming under fire for his criticism of the stadium used to hold last week’s fractious first leg.

Blatter does not believe Lens’s Stade Felix-Bollaert, the venue where United fans were crushed against metal fences during the match, is fit to host a Champions League game.

But the presidents of Lens and Lille, two rival clubs from the north of France, today joined forces and rounded on the FIFA supremo.