POLICE LET DOWN LIVERPOOL FANS

With Liverpool fan Sean Cox still critically ill in hospital, Merseyside Police have offered assurances that their presence around Anfield for the match against Roma was adequate. this follows the attack on the Manchester City bus in the previous round, which also seemed to take place under their watchful eye. ‘i am happy we had the sufficient number of resources,’ said Chief Superintendent Dave Charnock. Yes, but what were they doing? Photographs of Liverpool supporters dancing on the roof of a police van amid a backdrop of pyrotechnics suggests the lightest of touches, a force that is too happy to supervise rather than enforce the law. is it any wonder that, in these circumstances, the officers on duty appear to have missed the shadowy presence of a tooled-up group of Roma supporters, intent on extremes of violence until it was too late?