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DAVID PLATT believes Italian riot police could have killed a Manchester United fan.
The former England midfielder played in Italy for four years and knows all about the thuggish nature of the authorities at football stadiums.
Platt said: “It is appalling what happened but, in a way, I’m not surprised.
“The Italian riot police believe the only way to instil law and order is by laying into people.
“In England, you get arrested or ejected for bad behaviour. In Italy, you get beaten up.
“I watched those pictures with horror because I seriously feared someone was going to get killed the way they were being hit with batons.
Police looked like they were enjoying it.”
Trouble flared in the Olympic Stadium as Roma took the lead just before half-time in their Champions League quarter-final first- leg 2-1 win over United on Wednesday.
Roma fans charged towards a barrier dividing rival fans — and United supporters charged back.Police then waded in.
Platt, who played for Bari, Juventus and Sampdoria in the 1990s, said: “I saw one man with a camera around his neck being beaten.
“If you are a football thug, you don’t tend to go to a match with a camera around your neck. You go there to record the experience.
“If police had taken off uniforms, it would have just been like a battle between two sets of fans. The difference was they had batons to hit people with. There is an attitude of total disdain towards the riot police from people in Italy. It is not seen as a proper career.
“Fans of rival clubs rarely fight with each other — just with the police.
“It has almost become a tribal thing between fans and the authorities.
“United fans get hit with objects and they wonder why they might get a bit wound up.
“Nothing was being done to stop the Italian fans from doing what they did.
“The spark that ignited everything seemed to be the behaviour of the police. They appeared to instigate all the trouble by their over-the-top behaviour.
“It is just not right. Fans go there to enjoy a match and get beaten up by the very people who are supposed to be protecting them.” Former top-level ref Anders Frisk also pointed the finger at Italian police.
In 2004, the Swede abandoned Roma’s Champions League clash with Dinamo Kiev at half-time when a missile thrown from the crowd left him with blood pouring from a head wound.
He said: “The approach from the Italian police — my feeling was they were very close to United supporters.
“What caused it was something that had been thrown. The Italian police reacted very, very aggressively.
“This is what caused everything to catch fire.”
Reading manager Steve Coppell reckons the trouble highlighted how effective English football is at combating hooliganism. The former United winger said: “You abhor that kind of violence within a football stadium and England lead the way in crowd control.
TO THE RESCUE ... a stricken United fan is
comforted by his pal at the Olympic Stadium
“It did not appear the reactions of the police were correct. For that kind of abuse to be taking place doesn’t seem right.”
Blackburn boss Mark Hughes reckons foreign police cannot handle crowds at top matches.
The United legend said: “They have a real problem in Europe with stewarding and policing big crowds.
“The scenes are something we are not used to any more. At some venues in Europe, those situations seem to be prevаlent.
“When they happen and involve supporters of our clubs, we are really shocked. We have moved on — our policing and stewarding is so good now.”
Middlesbrough fans were not surprised by the violent scenes in Rome though.
Three Boro supporters were stabbed in the build- up to their UEFA Cup tie at the Olympic Stadium in March last year.
Rob Nichols, editor of Boro fanzine Fly Me To The Moon, said: “It was really sad that no lessons appeared to have been learned.
“Boro fans have brought it up before. To see other people having to suffer makes it all seem so senseless.”
"He hit it," wrote Sir Alex Ferguson of one particularly vicious Alan Shearer finish against Poland in 1996, "as if he wanted to kill it."
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