Klopp demands lessons are learned after Liverpool Champions League final chaos

Jurgen Klopp has demanded lessons are learned from the carnage surrounding the Champions League final so those scenes are never repeated.

The Liverpool boss spoke passionately for the first time about the shocking organisation and police brutality which ruined the showpiece final for so many. Klopp insisted innocent supporters only narrowly avoided a much bigger disaster than the one which unfolded at the Stade de France because of the catalogue of mistakes made by the authorities.

"We all know the big events Paris has got coming up in the next few years, but this is a good example of how it should not be," he explained. "These kinds of things need to be sorted and clarified, definitely.

"First and foremost for the reason that it cannot happen again. I think we were really lucky that more did not happen - we have to make sure it does not happen again at all."

Klopp revealed that he spoke to almost 50 people about their experiences at the final and every single one suffered at the hands of police and the authorities who so spectacularly screwed up the organisation in Paris.

Klopp went on to say: "In the end, I felt for them [the supporters] - and they are passionate Liverpudlians - that the smallest problem we had that night was that we lost the game. Imagine that around the Champions League final. Crazy. It says it all.

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"It's why everyone, the authorities, have to make sure this does not happen again. It was clear where it was (held) was a problem. I think in Paris, the authorities would have known about the regional issues there. UEFA decided pretty quick that it will be in Paris.

"There were other cities, obviously, where it could have been held. I understand that they got the information pretty late. So how to organise it?

"You need somewhere it is easy to organise - and UEFA and Paris, this is not the first time they have worked together, all these kind of things. I'm 100 per cent sure that nobody made a mistake intentionally. It's not that everyone thought: 'Ah, pfft, who cares how supporters get in!' But the mistakes still happened and now we have to sort it."

Klopp also revealed his family didn't tell him about the severity of the trouble until after the game. He added: "The situation outside? I heard first hand from my family because they were in the middle of everything. I didn't hear about it properly until the next morning.

"My family didn't tell me on the night. They texted me before the game: 'We are in, good luck', stuff like this but they were pretty much one-and-a-half hours away from being in the stadium.

"They told me the next morning. What happened to them happened to everyone, pretty much. This is pretty much the story everyone told, everyone had this experience."