Thread by @lovefutebol

So the French Sports Minister @AOC1978 said that "between 30,000 and 40,000" #lfc fans without tickets turned up at the stadium.

Let's consider this claim with reference to the UK's own Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds.

I believe The Guide says that a turnstile's recommended entry rate is 660 persons per hour (a little over 11 per minute per turnstile). #lfc were provided with three entry points (Gates X, Y, and Z).

So, acknowledging I'm unsure how many turnstiles were available after gate entry, we also know that for a period of time certain gates were completely closed. But 30,000 (fans without tickets)/3 (entry points)/3 (hours) = 3,333 people processed per hour per entry gate.

When you add back in the approximately 20,000 fans *with* legitimate* tickets, that makes a minimum of 5,555 required to be processed per hour (50,000/3/3).

Then, even if you want to believe that the seriously understaffed Stade de France was presumably capable of setting an incredible world record for ticket validation, you have to ask yourself, where did those 30-40,000 people alleged to have been without tickets go?

Essentially, this ludicrous, ridiculous claim is so spectacularly easy to debunk, why as a government minister would she go on to make it?

Vous nous devez des excuses, @AOC1978.

A minimum 5,555 people/tickets to be processed per hour.
That's +92 people/tickets to be processed per minute.
That's 1.5 people/tickets to be processed per second.

Minister @AOC1978 wants press to believe an influx of people not holding a valid ticket which literally comprises 37.5-50% of the stadium's capacity was present, and further that they would have somehow been dispersed away from the ground.

It's a lie.

https://twitter.com/inzyrashid/status/1531237791648075776?s=20&t=njRoN7m3UTMmxPSczlJs8A