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Post #273729

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Darth Solo
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Should Lille be thrown out of the Champions League?
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Date created
25-Feb-2007, 2:20 AM
If the players had abandoned the game then i'd have said yes. I could see their dismay with a dubious decision for their disallowed goal, then getting hit with the sucker punch with the way Man Utd scored the winning goal after, but the ground wasn't a stage for champions league football to start with.

As the farce with the crowd problem, that could have turned into another Hillsborough disaster and that needs really looking into. Why were there fences there to begin with? And why the heavy handed tactics with the launching of tear gas into the crowd at the first sign of a disturbance, which contained men, women and children that were getting crushed with influx of supporters coming into such a small section of the ground?

Lille are an up and coming team that should not be made an example of, and after they get torn apart at Old Trafford, they can learn a lot of lessons from that one match alone.