Hicks blasts "clown" Gaillard

Liverpool co-owner Tom Hicks has blasted UEFA’s claims that the club’s fans are the worst-behaved in Europe.
UEFA president Michel Platini is to present a report to Sports Minister Richard Caborn in Brussels today which is expected to be highly critical of Reds fans and include a dossier of 25 unsavoury incidents involving their supporters in the last four years.
Much of the criticism surrounds the conduct of Liverpool fans in Athens before the Champions League final last month, where fans without tickets or with fakes were able to gain access to the stadium at the expense of genuine ticket-holders and Greek police had to use tear gas in a bid to quell the chaos.
But Hicks lays the blame for the problems at UEFA’s door, and asked to respond to Gaillard’s damning comments about Liverpool fans, he told Sky Sports News:

I thought the guy from UEFA was a clown for saying that. UEFA did not handle this right at all. o give 17,000 tickets to the two teams, particularly knowing Liverpool are going to bring 40,000 fans, is insane. It’s a classic case of a bureaucrat trying to take the pressure off himself. They didn’t handle it right, they didn’t have proper ticketing procedures and unfortunately there were counterfeit tickets. There were fans who paid their hard-earned money to get their tickets and they get to the stadium and are told there is no more room. Are they mad? Sure they’re mad.