Thought Ref was o.k.
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Donât really remember anything from the match at all. Honestly, everything after getting tear gassed was a bit of blur.
Few bits and pieces on my experience, speaking as honestly as possible.
There were literally no stewards anywhere who were just there to help. To ask where a gate was you had to queue as if you were trying to get through. The first checkpoints before you got to the stadium werenât even sign posted.
My brother had my ticket and I was meeting him at the ground. Meeting at Z or as close to it as we could, baring in mind the checkpoints. There was one street to access Z. I couldnât walk up it without being tear-gassed. But I couldnât go anywhere else cos thatâs where I was meeting him.
When we eventually found each other we went to go straight in but all the gates were closed. Thousands queuing no one offering any advise or information. Mixture of British and French lads were climbing the fence, most people shouting at them to get down. Iâm sure some of the people climbing had legit tickets but had given up hope fox getting in through the gate.
One steward, about 5 mins before kick off was originally scheduled, shook his head at us trying to tell us we werenât going to get in. That it was over.
At no point were fans outside told kick off was delayed. I got through a Real Madrid gate about 9:05 and was expecting to have missed the first 5 mins despite having got to the stadium at about 6:45.
There were fake tickets knocking about. Chatting to people in Paris most seemed to know of someone who had one, even if it was friend of a friend of a friend of a friend, sort of thing.
I was pushed, threatened, pepper sprayed any time I asked police for help, albeit Iâd have been very aggravated when I did so.
Whole thing was a shambles. Was distraught by the time I got to my seat. Not really been able to think about anything else since.
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Itâs dull and cloudy, here in Liverpool this morning, much like my mood today. I hope this rain stops in time for the parade.
Kroos was one of the biggest cheats. Cheating is not our style.
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I know you have to take some of these videos with a pinch of salt but
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMLosPfsh/?k=1
This final was an organisational disaster
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So ToniâŠu play to winâŠeh!..does that include your mate Casemiro falling down all the time, to stop our flow of playâŠValdervede holding his face as if Fury has belted himâŠbut no-one touched himâŠand Sadio getting his ankle tapped every time he got near the 18 yd boxâŠdoes play to win mean cheatingâŠif so you winâŠ
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Iâve already said this last night, but if weâd taken any of our several chances to score, weâd have won and nobody would be talking about Madrid and âthey know how to win finals bollocksâ. The post and the goalkeeper saved them and they had one chance to score. Itâs nothing to do with not knowing how to play âlow block teamsâ, because we did get through them, but we were not clinical enough. Thatâs all there is to it.
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I have to correct you there Maria they took their chance. 
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When they played shitty in the 2nd game they allowed them 9 shots on target also.
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Starngly Thiagoâs passing was way off
VvD will be lucky to be 1st choice alongside Konaté on current form
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I am so down in the dumps. I really thought it would be our night.
I donât know the shambles and dangerous chaos outside overshadowed everything, with the delayed match time. It looked abit ominous then.
That French minister has really wound me up. I tweeted him in French to contradict his lies.
French Police are famous for being heavy handed and thuggish.
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Golden chance to win the Champions League once more gone. Weâre a better team, played better, had the better chances but all to no avail. We just didnât quite do enough. Itâs tough. Exasperating.
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We were not overran but it was simply a matter of us not taking our chances and them taking theirs. That is the difference between winning a final at the highest level. It is disappointing and hurts to a certain degree then losing the PL really for me because compared to PL, I thought we really have it in us to win it before the match and even during the match, I was really confident but it was not to be. I hope the fans who traveled gets justice for the ridiculous treatment they got.
The French minister had better look at reports from tv presenters, newspaper reporters, British Police, relatives of playersâŠfans who were treated like s**t (man on tv ladt night with son)âŠall point to a stadium that couldnât cope, officials who couldnât produce a safe environment for fans, production of fibs againâŠlook at yourselves first before blaming othersâŠKarval Solekol last night went right thruâ the entry process, and showed were fans were held, locked behind gates and funneled thruâ a small gap between police vansâŠLOOK AT YOURSELVES FIRSTâŠ
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My recollection. Not watched it back though. From memory.
Start of second half, Real were passing it about much more than in the first half. But from around the 50th minute, we took over again. One way traffic from us. Then Diaz challenged with Militao, who had his hands rugby tackle style all around him. Militao bundles Diaz to the ground, but in a move Ramos would be proud of, he falls in such a way to act as if he was the innocent party, along with faking he was hit on the head, forcing the ref to stop the game for a couple of minutes for the physios to come on.
Henderson saw what was going on right away, and remonstrated to the ref, who ushered him off bruskly and with disdain - with a body language of go away, I refuse to engage in talking to unworthy peasants. The ref of course gave Real that free kick, naturally. The break in play helped Real to breath and to disrupt the momentum we had gained in the 5 minutes prior.
Then about a minute after the restart, Real had the ball in the back of the net, which came to be the winning goal.
So, all the recipe for a smash and grab was there - keeper pulling out some blinders, defence compact and set up with two blocks of seven players, with a deadly front three waiting for any counter opportunity, shithousery , and a goal with virtually their only shot.
They used the street smarts to see how the ref was officiating the game, and played to his style better than us. So in the first half, Diaz on the counter, Real defender with both arms around him to stop play, safe in the knowledge that the ref, who was trying to let the game flow, would not pull put a yellow in the first half (instead, the tool gestured that he had noticed this was his second foul, yet no card).
The ref would sometimes catch the shithousery, but sometimes allow it, but with no punishments to back it up, why not keep doing it? Continue they did.
Whereas us, kept it sportsmanlike, and Fab only did the defensive midfield late tackle thing mid-way in the second half, by which point, the ref would be pulling out his card. Sadio got tackled through him on a couple of occasions in the first half with no free kick. You just know had that been Pernicious Jr, he wouldâve milked it rolling around, clutching his ankle, to force the ref to stop it (at least the ref didnât buy his dive - though that should be yellow for unsportsmanlike like behaviour, trying to get Fab the second yellow).
Shame that excellent Mane turn and shot, or the Salah take down and power shot from his right boot, was saved and deflected out via woodwork, or deflected over (that Mane shot on another day, wouldâve hit the post, and back off the keeper into the net).
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Hands up who thinks Precocious jnrâŠhas a very slappable faceâŠ
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One AP journalist had his accreditation pass taken off him and wasnât allowed in the stadium until he removed footage from what was going on outside the stadium.
I also heard, certain local gangs were roaming around mugging some of the fans, Dominic saw this in Paris and the police were not doing much to help
Paris is overrated, Kyiv and Madrid were well organised with no major problems at all.
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Just an enquiryâŠare the boys back home?
Sorry I hope this does not come across as making snide remarks on the French, but the authorities and police are used to having huge groups of protesters or organised mass strikes almost like a daily affair in France, do they also go around pepper spraying and teargassing protesters or strikers? And yet they did it to football fans? Are they going to say that the fans were disruptive and rowdy enough for them to use such measures? Its quite ridiculous.