Could be. The French don't really care who gets the blame so long as it's not THEM, or by extention UEFA.
Oddly enough, I was in France during Heysel, on some programme or other for junior officers from around Europe. About a dozen of us there had got the beers & baguettes in ready to watch it on the box at our billet; all excited like. Being the only Englishman there, the looks that were shot my way as the evening wore on and the lads slowly drifted off and went about their other business
Scouse ****ers, imo.