EXCLUSIVE: Disabled Chelsea fan recalls her ordeal after having coins, bottles and chewing gum thrown at them at PSG

A disabled Chelsea fan has recounted the horrifying ordeal she and her group endured inside Paris Saint-Germain’s Parc des Princes stadium.

The supporters — five in wheelchairs with five carers — had coins, bottles and chewing gum thrown at them and were spat at by the PSG crowd.

Lisa Hayden, one of the party, had a life-threatening brain operation in 1988, which caused another haemorrhage in 1993 and resulted in two strokes in 2004. It has left her needing a stick and wheelchair to get around.

Ordeal: Lisa Hayden (second right) said a bottle struck her from behind in the stand

Away trip: Hayden (second right) said she thought the tension would calm down as the game started

‘With my brain injury a bottle or coin hitting my head could kill me,’ said Lisa, 45. She arrived at the stadium with her husband and carer, Peter, at 7pm for the first leg of Chelsea’s Champions League quarter-final last week.

Tension started to build when there was confusion about how they could get in and they were sent to enter the stadium with home fans.

Once inside, they were taken to their allocated area — sat in front of the PSG fans. It is common practice for away disabled supporters to be placed in front of the home crowd but, as they applauded the Chelsea players warming up ahead of kick off, PSG fans began hurling abuse at them.



No word: Hayden has written to PSG about the ordeal, but has not received a reply

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‘It was scary at the beginning and then as the game went on it got worse,’ Lisa recalled. ‘I thought once the game kicked off they’d settle down.’

But they didn’t. When PSG took the lead through Ezequiel Lavezzi’s third-minute strike, the verbal abuse, centred around the fact they were English, got worse.

When Eden Hazard equalised from the penalty spot, several PSG supporters started making threatening cut-throat gestures.

‘There were 10 of us and thousands of them and we hadn’t got any back-up with security,’ said Lisa. ‘The stewards did nothing.’

Lisa was so distraught by the final whistle that she suffered a panic attack.

Peter, 51, added: ‘I spent the last 20 minutes standing their making sure no-one could get at Lisa.

Dejected: Chelsea lost the first leg in Paris but managed to turn the tie around at Stamford Bridge

Breakthrough: PSG's Ezequiel Lavezzi celebrates scored the opener in a 3-1 for the French champions

‘A bottle struck me from behind, if I hadn’t have been there it would have hit her in the head. The other carers were doing the same. Some of them were very upset.’

Dagan Roberts, 18, who was there with his dad Neil, 51, suffered bruising after being struck by a bottle. Paul Fee, 52, joined by his nephew Gary who is in his thirties, was spat at.

Charlie Mosen, 32, with his dad Paul, 54, and Peter Fellows, in his late thirties, with his carer, were also subjected to abuse.

New footage: Further video has emerged showing the trouble in Paris last week

Trouble: Rival fans clash and throw objects at each other, one supporter (right) pushes over a shoe stand

Lisa spoke to Chelsea on Monday officials to describe the problems they faced, with chief executive Ron Gourlay said to be shocked by their treatment.

The allocation and location of seating is out of the hands of the away club, but it is understood that Chelsea are looking into complaints regarding the PSG game and will raise their concerns with UEFA.