Supporters of Manchester City and Inter Milan endured a logistical nightmare and were put in harms’s way just to get to the game 🖋️ Simon_Kelner for ipaperviews
A cursory inspection of a stadium built for Turkey’s failed bid for the 2008 Olympics and located some 13 miles from traffic-clogged Istanbul city centre would tell you this was not a venue suitable for big events
Are Uefa now so awash with the sponsors’ money and so enamoured of the sovereign wealth funds’ billions, its officials and friends cosseted in their swanky hotels and their chauffeur driven cars, that they don’t know and don’t care what the fans, the people who effectively pay their wages, have to undergo in the simple act of following their team?
A sizeable majority of the 20,000 Manchester City fans who travelled to Istanbul had harrowing tales to tell. My friend John Stapleton, the highly respected TV journalist and a City fan for more than 60 years, told of his horrific two-hour journey to the ground in a bus with no water and no toilet facilities. Fans were forced to urinate out of windows and one passenger vomited, unable to cope with the searing heat.
I am aware of the obvious difficulty in illiciting sympathy for football fans, who, like mass gatherings of almost any nature, can sometimes betray the worst aspects of human behaviour. But leave aside any cynicism or blithe insinuations of first-world problems and look at the bigger picture. What Saturday’s chaos in Istanbul illustrates is another example of institutional indifference to the plight of what might be termed ordinary people.
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