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COPS NOT KOP
LIVERPOOL will escape punishment from football chiefs if fans attack the Manchester City bus today.
Merseyside Police are on alert and will react after being made aware of plans by some Reds fans to give their rivals a welcome usually reserved for Euro nights at Anfield.
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Uefa fined Liverpool £17,000 for an attack on the City coach in 2018.
But the FA and Premier League say pre-match security is a matter for the club and police. Fines or worse for supporter misbehaviour inside grounds can be dished out.
Outside, however, the domestic football authorities take a different view to Uefa.
After the incident in April last year before a Champions League quarter-final, Liverpool argued that police, not the club, was responsible for security outside Anfield.
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But Uefa ruled that where regulations referred to “lack of order or discipline observed inside or around the stadium”, it could include incidents beyond the stadium.
Six of the bus windows were damaged and the club had to find another vehicle to take players and staff home.
Neither the FA nor the Premier League would make an official comment.
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