What time did people stay at the fan park for and has anyone got a photos of it towards the end - around an hour before or KO time?
We left the fanpark around 5-6pm, not long after Jamie Websters set, to go grab some food. There was a lot of Reds doing the same, many presumably off to the stadium, but also lots of ticketless fans going off to places where they had reservations booked etc.
We came back to the Fan Park about 19:30 - 20:00 to get back in for the screening (wish we´d just gone our reservation to be honest!). It was a lot more chaotic by this stage, more reminiscient of the start of the day trying to get in. By this time a lot of Reds who were there in the day had been replaced by Parisians. The atmosphere was not as jovial, but it wasn´t menacing either - was kind of feeling like an anti-climax by that stage.
We eventually got in through the same bottleneck as the start of the day - a bit quicker this time. Once we were inside, most people had gathered by the first screen, without venturing down to the further screens.
We tried to get past the first screen, and that was actually the scariest part of the day for me (and our mates agreed - although obviously nothing on the stadium) because it felt like it was developing into a crush also, and if something had sparked a panic it would have been very bad. People looked concerned, but it eased off as we got past the first screen. Long story short, the Fan Park was not well organised at all either.
We arrived at the second screen at about 20:50, so no long before the intended KO.
Mood in the game was kind of flat - like I said a lot of Reds had been replaced by Parisians (around our screen at least).
As soon as the game had finished, we turned and the whole side fencing had been pulled down on to its side so we all poured out of that. Can´t say who had taken it down, didn´t even hear it just saw it lying flat - but it was a relief because it would have been a nightmare all 50,000 people trying to get back out the way we came in. The Riot Police were looking a bit more menacing at that stage, and herded us one way down the street.
I had a mate at the front screen. They were tear gassed by cannisters coming over the wall quickly afer the match finished (some of the others on the WhatsApp group can verify that as well). Said it was a panic, and at the front screen they were the furthest from any entrances/exits - he was pretty shook up. We thankfully missed all that, and also missed the riot police streaming into the bars near the entrance. Don´t know what started all that.
I just checked and I don´t have any photos of the match an hour before KO, but I can defo ask around (and the WhatsApp group might have some as well). Is this for Phil Scraton??
