Jason McAteer

MARTIN SAMUEL - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Nobody deserved it. The fact that A-listers got teargassed means ordinary fans, who might otherwise not be believed, ...

Now it has emerged representatives of the club’s brightest prospect, Bukayo Saka, are pushing for a release clause in his contract. Chris Kirchner, the new owner of Derby, will not use his software company to sponsor the club shirts. How could anyone want to remove the crown jewel from the Formula One calendar? Having watched Sunday’s procession, however, in which the front four cars followed each other around the track from the restart on lap 33 to the chequered flag, maybe history alone isn’t enough. Think who own PSG and what major event they will be hosting later this year. It never ceases to amaze how gaining control of a football club separates a sound business mind from its marbles. It only takes a 10-second clip of a few lads scaling a fence — and we don’t even know they were Liverpool supporters, there were quite a few strapping young locals occupying the stairwells in the Liverpool end, by all accounts — for scepticism to take hold. Roy Keane does not regard himself as having won the Champions League with Manchester United in 1999. And it is a pity that this is what needs to happen for ordinary fans to be believed. The excuses were coming thick and fast. Are Robertson’s tickets included in the alleged forgeries? On Monday, the reputational clean-up began.

Former Ireland and Liverpool player Jason McAteer's family were subject to a violent attack after the Champions League final in Paris on Saturday.

It was disgusting.” It was Real Madrid fans who were walking past that helped him out.” He takes his phone from his pocket and the five lads set upon him and they give him a good kick in. One of the gates further up had been closed and fans were starting to make their way down to the next available entrance,” he explained. She rang me in tears saying she’d been squashed and it was really uncomfortable and she got scared. Lucy’s gate filled up really quickly and she got caught up in it.

Former Liverpool midfielder Jason McAteer has hit back at comments from French Minister of the Interior Gerald Darmanin.

The Fenway Sports Group chief said the letter was sent in 'utter disbelief' after what Reds fans were subjected to on Saturday. She also accused Liverpool of letting fans 'out in the wild'. I’d like to thank the forces of law and order. There were also horrifying reports of Reds fans being attacked and mugged by locals in Paris both before and after the game. He added: “Manifestly, this kind of incident only seems to happen with certain English clubs. He told a press conference: “We deplore a lack of organisation in the way the English fans were received.” But he went onto say 30,000 to 40,000 Liverpool fans had turned up for the game either without tickets or with counterfeits.