It’s 37 years today since that horrible day when so many Italians never returned from the match. It resulted in a Euro ban for all English clubs for 5 years and Liverpool for 6 years. If this happened today, do you think the punishment would be the same or more or less severe?
The Russian war has resulted in all Russian clubs being banned so not adverse to still do that this day and age. However feel like would be unsuitable to ban all clubs from the country if it was only 1 set of fans from a club. Saying that, it’s easy to ban Russian clubs as no super powers. Seeing how uefa can’t implement and punish clubs that clearly flaunt their ffp rules, how barely punish clubs whose fans are openly racist and homophobic in stadiums etc, I don’t know how they’d react if it was a club from one of the big leagues. You’d like to think if was deaths involved that serious measures would be taken, and for whole situation to be looked at and judged
To be fair, the occasion is marked every year in Liverpool as far as I'm aware. Press coverage tends to be crap though. I've not seen TV news today, but, I'd bet the focus has been on the Bus parade, when they could do so much more on Heysel.
i have a feeling UEFA may be a lot more lenient as the money is bigger now. The CL without English clubs is a poorer contest and sponsors may walk so it could all come down to cash. I mean Qatar got busted over the WC. Yet nothing happened and we now have a man at the top of UEFA who also runs PSG, the club flouting FFP the most… so morals are second to money and power imho.
