'It's not an apology' - Simon Jordan slams Lallement's account of Paris fan trouble

Lallement shared his thoughts on the unsavory events that transpired before, during and after the Champions League final between Liverpool and Real Madrid in the French capital last month.

Fans were left traumatised after being penned in by French police before being tear gassed.

Addressing the events of that night, Lallement said: "It is obviously a failure.

"It was a failure because people were pushed around and attacked. It was a failure because the image of the country was undermined.

"We made sure that the game was held and, most importantly, that there were no serious injuries and no deaths.

"Which is the only way to make a crowd back down except to charge them, and I think it would have been a serious mistake to charge people.

"I am well aware that people of good faith were gassed, and I am totally sorry for that, but I repeat, there was no other way."

Jordan and Jim White were discussing the comments on White and Jordan and the ex-Crystal Palace chairman was not impressed.

He said: "This isn't an apology. You can't even call this a qualified apology.

"What this is, is when you've got innocent people and young people and elderly people get tear-gassed, you've got to say that the outcome is something you regret, which is what he says.

"But he defends the reason behind it. This is not an apology, this is a qualified explanation expressing regret about some of the outcomes.

"He's laying the pipework down for the reasons why they had to behave in this way.

"It's not an apology, Jim. It's not an apology."

He added: "They didn't police the occasion, they policed the perception of it because they believed that Liverpool in the past, and England fans and the European Championships and all of those things.

"We can't deny that, because unfortunately anything you do in the past follows you in the present and so the policing attitude was that we're not policing what's in front of us, but instead policing what they thought was in front of them and that's a concerning perspective to hear."