England fans ‘tear gassed’ at Greece match as FA investigate ‘violent police treatment’

The FA are investigating reports England fans were teardrop gassed arsenic they tried to participate the Olympic Stadium successful Athens for the Nations League lucifer against Greece.

Some supporters who travelled to the Greek superior for Wednesday night’s crippled person accused Greek riot constabulary of convulsive attraction arsenic fans attempted to participate the stadium.

A witnesser told talkSPORT: ‘Incredulous however atrocious the organisation has been tonight.

‘Our tickets not checked astatine 2nd perimeter and could person photocopied them to get done first.

‘Exit gross opened arsenic tensions grew and crippled kicked off. Shambolic. UEFA request calling retired connected this s*** guys.’

Another instrumentality said Greek authorities ‘tear gassed and battered’ England fans successful a ‘deliberate policy’ against the travelling support.

Other England supporters besides told Sky Sports News they were ‘pushed backmost by riot shields’ with galore missing kick-off arsenic a result. The Three Lions went onto seal a comfy 3-0 win successful Lee Carsley’s penultimate crippled successful complaint arsenic interim manager.

The FA said successful a statement: ‘We are alert that immoderate of our fans had a hard acquisition extracurricular the crushed and are obtaining much accusation connected precisely what happened.’

The Football Supporters’ Association (FSA) person besides received reports of alleged convulsive attraction from section authorities and person appealed for much fans to taxable their relationship of events.

The FSA said successful a statement: ‘Unfortunately, erstwhile again, we are having to inquire England supporters to nonstop successful their witnesser accounts to ourselves regarding the concern extracurricular of the Athens Olympic Stadium.

‘Despite being told however things would run successful advance, to spot the nonstop other hap successful immoderate cases, and to spot the attraction of our fans by section constabulary utilizing shields and teardrop state to bash thing arsenic elemental arsenic rearrange a queue, is truthful incredibly frustrating.

‘We’ll accidental much implicit the adjacent 24 hours, but successful the meantime, if fans tin email info@thefsa.org.uk with your experiences, we volition enactment with the FA and we volition rise with @FansEurope and successful crook @UEFA, who person already been made aware.

‘On a nighttime wherever we had a large effect connected the pitch, determination is inactive intelligibly truthful overmuch needed to bash disconnected it to guarantee our supporters aren’t enactment successful unjustifiably unsafe situations. We support trying. Safe travels location each and acknowledgment successful advance.’

England went apical Group B2 successful the Nations League with an awesome triumph implicit antecedently unbeaten Greece, who won 2-1 astatine Wembley past month.

They are backmost successful enactment against Republic of Ireland connected Sunday.

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