Latest Liverpool News: After Liverpool were defeated on Saturday night, a disheartened Andy Robertson cut a miserable figure in the bowels of the Stade France stadium.
The Scotland captain made his way through the mixed zone at the Saint-Denis stadium at around midnight. Real Madrid had just handed him his second career defeat in the Champions League final.
Robertson was trying to make sense of an evening that not only saw his team lose to Los Blancos but also a night where he was worried for the safety of his family and friends after the chaos that unfolded outside the ground before kick-off. There is no doubt that this evening will go down as one of his career lowlights for Robertson.
Liverpool lost the UCL final
As they waited in line for many hours before the game was scheduled to begin, thousands of Liverpool fans were treated horribly by French riot police and stewards. The incident occurred as the fans were waiting to go inside the stadium.
On a particularly gloomy night for UEFA, fans outside the stadium, including children, were randomly targeted by tear gas. It caused a delay of 36 minutes before the game could begin. The governing body of Europe is now in a position where it must answer significant concerns about the failures of the authorities at the site on Saturday evening.
On the ground, fans compared what was happening to the horrible Hillsborough incident that occurred in 1989. If you are familiar with the culture of Liverpool’s fandom, you will understand that this is not something that should be spoken flippantly.
The actual game of football is a mere afterthought at this point. There is little room for introspection on the sport itself. Unless there is first a comprehensive investigation into what went wrong and why. As is seemingly always the case, football fans were treated as if they were nothing more than animals dressed in replica shirts.
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After the game, Robertson showed that he still possesses a certain amount of class. He stopped to talk to the journalists present, including this correspondent. However, he explained that now is not the time for any meaningful reflection on a Liverpool season that went all the way to the championship.
Before their loss of 1-0 on Saturday in the most important game in club football, they had played a total of sixty-three games. They won two cups, and come close to winning the Premier League. But they fell just short. Robertson was unwilling to provide his reasoned judgement on the Reds’ season. His feelings were still fresh at that moment. This is true regardless of how you assess the Reds’ season.
Latest Liverpool News: What did Robertson say?
He said: “You can’t ponder on it tonight because you are not in the appropriate frame of mind. You have to let all of the emotion and your sentiments come out, which is OK. We will think about the Liverpool aspect of it when we finish our international obligations.
It is difficult tonight, but it is a part and parcel of football, sadly. We must bounce back, but the bounce back will come tomorrow and not today. We will be ready to pick ourselves up and go again when the pre-season starts.”
The time for conducting an in-depth examination of Liverpool’s current season can wait. The squad members themselves have dispersed to recover certain wounds. Nevertheless, the discomfort caused by those wounds was substantially mitigated by the open-top bus procession that took place across the city proper on Sunday afternoon. It was the least their efforts merited for all of their hard work.
