Players hit by spray
NZPA-PA London Dozens of Manchester United players and fans were temporarily blinded when .soccer hooligans sprayed them with an eye irritant outside Liverpool’s Anfield Stadium on Sunday.
The police were also left with streaming eyes after the attack but could not confirm reports that the substance used was tear gas.
Minutes earlier the team coach was bombarded with bricks and stones as it headed for the
ground for the crucial first division game. As the players stepped from the coach they walked into a haze of noxious spray — a reserve defender, Clayton Blackmore, aged 21, was worst affected, staggering from the scene with streaming eyes. A fan, aged 12, was taken to hospital. The police said he had scratched his eyes by rubbing them too hard. United’s manager, Ron Atkinson, said: “There was the usual spitting as we got off the team coach. Then I thought we
had walked into a room full of turpentine.
“All the lads were coughing and spluttering and I took them straight out into the pitch for some fresh air. "Whoever did it must be a lunatic. He was certainly not a Manchester United fan. Liverpool must take steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again to visiting teams.”
The attack was an unwelcome incident for Liverpool officials. The club has been ? banned from Europe since the Brussels stadium tragedy last year.
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