{"id":1104056,"date":"2022-05-30T11:30:12","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/30\/champs-league-final-treatment-disgraceful\/"},"modified":"2022-05-30T11:30:12","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T11:30:12","slug":"champs-league-final-treatment-disgraceful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/30\/champs-league-final-treatment-disgraceful\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Champs League Final Treatment Disgraceful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Liverpool fans say they had to protect themselves from tear gas and pepper spray at the Stade de France<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool fans have said the treatment they received from stewards and police as they tried to get into the Champions League final was an \u201cabsolute disgrace\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Uefa delayed kick-off by 35 minutes on Saturday, citing \u201csecurity issues\u201d and problems with fans trying to get in using fake tickets.<\/p>\n<p>However, many Reds supporters spoke of long queues in the hours leading up to the game and a heavy-handed police response to the build-up of fans.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Whitehurst said after arriving at the ground, he had to get his disabled son \u201cout of the way\u201d after they were pepper-sprayed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe treatment of supporters by Uefa and the police was an absolute disgrace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis should be one of the greatest nights for fans and it\u2019s been an absolute disgrace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin and James spent \u00a3700 on their trip to the #UCLfinal and didn\u2019t get in.<\/p>\n<p>He said police officers were \u201cthrowing people out, punching people, doing everything they can to stop them getting in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were people in wheelchairs, old lads with their walking sticks \u2013 it wasn\u2019t on at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Liverpool fans say they had to protect themselves from tear gas and pepper spray at the Stade de France Liverpool fans have said the treatment they received from stewards and police as they tried to get into the Champions League final was an \u201cabsolute disgrace\u201d. Uefa delayed kick-off by 35 minutes on Saturday, citing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1104060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[15494,15495,1450,674,2348],"class_list":["post-1104056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-champs","tag-disgraceful","tag-final","tag-league","tag-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1104056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1104056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1104056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1104056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1104056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}