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Sean Murphy

Dublin Liverpool fan 'relieved to be alive' after Champions League 'nightmare'

A Liverpool fan who feared he would be crushed to death at the Champions League final has ridiculed claims ticketless supporters were to blame.

Dubliner Christopher Brien, 50, told French sports minister Amelie Oudea-Castera it was bad organisation and incompetent policing that nearly cost him his life.

He was trapped with hundreds of supporters in a crush outside the Paris stadium and scrambled for his life when cops refused to let them pass.

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