UEFA to hear charges over bus attack

THE charges against Liverpool for their fans’ attack on the City team bus is scheduled to be heard tomorrow.

The Merseyside club was hit with four charges after the Blues’ coach came under a hail of bricks, bottles and fireworks on its approach to Anfield for the first leg of the Champions League quarter-final.

All four charges came under article 16 of Uefa’s disciplinary regulations and relate to – setting off fireworks, throwing of objects, crowd disturbances and acts of damage.

Liverpool will face a further three charges for incidents ahead of their semi-final first leg against Roma three weeks later, namely the setting off of fireworks, throwing of objects and crowd disturbances. Both cases will go before Uefa’s control, ethics and disciplinary body.

The City bus was damaged to the extent that another vehicle had to be brought in to take the players and staff back to Manchester afterwards.

The attack happened after a ‘coach greeting’ was organised on social media with the intention of ‘scaring’ the City players. The charges come under Uefa rules which make clubs responsible for the actions of their supporters in and around the ground before, during and after matches sanctioned by the body.

Merseyside Police said recently that their investigation into the attack is ongoing, and that no arrests have been made – they also made a plea for video footage to add to their officers’ bodycam footage.