UEFA are sleepwalking into another Hillsborough-style disaster after not learning the lessons of the near-fatal crush at last year’s Champions League final in Paris, according to one of the authors of the UEFA-commissioned independent review of the 2022 final, who believes this month’s chaotic Istanbul final ‘bore all the hallmarks’ of Paris.
Professor Clifford Stott was the crowd psychology expert on the independent review which UEFA commissioned into the 2022 final, which concluded UEFA bore ‘primary responsibility’ for Paris becoming a ‘near-miss... mass fatality catastrophe’, and he has surveyed reports coming out of Istanbul with increasing dismay.