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Champions League final: MP calls for retraction of fan 'smears'

An MP who saw "horrific" scenes at last weekend's Champions League final wants "a retraction of the smears" against Liverpool fans.

Europe's football governing body Uefa and French authorities initially blamed late arrivals and fake tickets for chaos at the game in Paris.

Uefa has apologised but Ian Byrne, who was at the match, wants a full retraction.

The Liverpool West Derby MP is planning a parliamentary motion about the issue.

Mr Byrne, who was also at the 1989 Hillsborough disaster that led to the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans after a stadium crush, told BBC Radio 4 Today that there was "a shambolic breakdown of stadium management" and "extremely hostile" policing in Paris.