PSG played behind closed doors on the same fecking night as the Scousers rammed as many into Anfield as they possibly could.
The UK had 460 confirmed cases by the day of the match (11th March) and this figure was growing exponentially. Virtually all other European games played that week were played behind closed doors yet Liverpool felt it necessary to play theirs in a packed stadium with ~3000 fans from Madrid, the epicentre of the Spanish outbreak (Spain had a whopping 2,318 cases by the day of the match with approx. 50% of that figure coming from the Madrid area itself).
You can live in your own little bubble and pretend everything is going to be okay and nobody bears any personal or civic responsibility during all this, but those living in the real world know different. Playing football with a packed stadium when virtually all of Europe didn’t was a massive unnecessary risk. Inviting ~3,000 people from the worst affected area in Europe, outside northern Italy, was a massive unnecessary risk.
Staging the match with a full attendance was a huge bone of contention even
before the match, with
local MPs asking for more safety measures to be taking place. Liverpool had a
statement on their website prior to the match to warn fans of the spread of the disease. Klopp famously refused to high-five fans at the tunnel area before the match and was visibly irate at them for even asking him to such was the paranoia present about Covid-19. Liverpool’s u23 team were supposed to be play Wolfsburg in Liverpool the day before the Atletico match but
Wolfsburg refused to travel on safety concerns. The list goes on and on. The warning signs were there but were not heeded and whomever made that decision - be UEFA, Liverpool or the relevant sporting bodies within the UK - need to be scrutinised for it.
So don’t pretend this is revisionist trolling based on football rivalries here.
Let’s cut the crap about this being an fantastical invention of mine that the match shouldn’t have gone ahead and the world was all fine and dandy on the 11th of March because that’s far from the true picture. It was a wholly selfish and completely reckless decision and it needs to be highlighted as such.