Liverpool fans’ odyssey to reach the Champions League: scams, canceled flights and a lifeboat

The Champions League final will awaken to a fanaticism that motivates everyone, even those who don’t include their teams or countries in the sense. But also, frustration can hit hard. That’s what happened this Saturday a lot hundreds of Liverpool fans have been stranded for various reasons and they could not go to Paris for the definition against Real Madrid.

One of these stories featured supporters of networks who were left with their bags on the side of the road from the scene Rocket Pubwhere they agreed that the company’s mini bus would pick them up “Coach Innovations Are Limited”.

This group of Liverpool fans stayed in place for at least six hourswithout answers from the company they took to complete the journey that would take them to the decisive match of the highest club tournament in Europe.

Through social networks, it was later discovered that it was a shell company created by Everton fans, its classic rival, although it was a company with nearly twenty years of service, according to the website of British Government. .

A fake image even spread on Twitter, which quickly went viral, stating that the driver assigned to the bus for this trip was “Mr. Richard Arlison”like the name of the Brazilian striker, the scorer of his team saved from relegation on the penultimate date of the Premier League.

No plane, but a boat.

Other stories emerged from the preview of the Champions League finals, due to the complications it took Liverpool fans to get to Paris. It’s now Saturday, at least a hundred fans of networks is left stranded due to flight cancellations by the travel agency World Choice Sports.

Fans flocked to the airport in the morning John Lennon from Liverpool to board a plane to Paris, but this operator reported that the flights were canceled.

Carmel Edwards, one of those affected, explained to the BBC that she was approached by a representative of this company and informed them that their flight had been canceled and that there were no more planes for them to land in Paris. “They didn’t try to help us in any way. The fans responded in a very polite way, for how they treated us”Edwards added.

Saw some of these fans forced to sell their tickets to others who go to Paris without a ticket. In all, between 50,000 and 60,000 Liverpool fans are estimated to have traveled to Paris for the Champions League finals, although just over 15,000 will be able to attend the stadium.

But there is a more dangerous group that, all of a sudden, chartered a ship and crossed the English Channel by water from Great Britain, to be on time in Paris. Everyone will see his team lift Orejona for the seventh time …