When Paris stepped in to host the Champions League final, the biggest match in international football after the World Cup final, the French authorities saw a chance to show that the nation was the ideal place to hold global sporting events.
This weekend, those hopes appear to be dashed as French opinion polls show widespread disapproval of the chaos that ensued, amid growing criticism of politicians and the police.
Unlike the UK, which witnessed fan violence at last year’s delayed Euro 2020, or autocratic states such as Russia and China, which respectively hosted the most recent World Cup and Winter Olympics, France had been confident it would put on a proper – safe – show.
France benefitting so much from how they are presented in hollywood that the disappointment of the seeing the reality got its own name lol
They must have missed decades of stuff being burned in the wake of football game.
As usual the French tried to blame it all on the English and hope the general xenophobia in France and Europe would let them get away with it, until Madrid also came out and said their fans were treated poorly too and now they look like even bigger morons.
At least England took responsibility for the trouble at Euro 2020, unlike the French.
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When Paris stepped in to host the Champions League final, the biggest match in international football after the World Cup final, the French authorities saw a chance to show that the nation was the ideal place to hold global sporting events.
This weekend, those hopes appear to be dashed as French opinion polls show widespread disapproval of the chaos that ensued, amid growing criticism of politicians and the police.
Unlike the UK, which witnessed fan violence at last year’s delayed Euro 2020, or autocratic states such as Russia and China, which respectively hosted the most recent World Cup and Winter Olympics, France had been confident it would put on a proper – safe – show.
France benefitting so much from how they are presented in hollywood that the disappointment of the seeing the reality got its own name lol
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
Global image in part of England?
First time? Welcome to the club.
They must have missed decades of stuff being burned in the wake of football game.
As usual the French tried to blame it all on the English and hope the general xenophobia in France and Europe would let them get away with it, until Madrid also came out and said their fans were treated poorly too and now they look like even bigger morons.
At least England took responsibility for the trouble at Euro 2020, unlike the French.