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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barry Glendenning

Big Cup chaos, childish tribalism and ‘the forces of law and order’

A French police officer applies some in-no-way-unnecessary crowd control techniques.
A French police officer applies some in-no-way-unnecessary crowd control techniques. Photograph: Matthias Hangst/Getty Images

THE FRENCH DEFLECTION

It’s been an extremely difficult weekend for Liverpool fans, some of whom were actually lucky enough to get in to the Stade de France on Saturday to see their team lose to Real Madrid in the final of Big Cup. Many more were left outside the stadium’s perimeter fence waving tickets for which they’d paid through the nose – noses which, along with their eyes were left streaming from the teargas sent wafting their way by members of the decidedly unfriendly local French constabulary.

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