It is an accusation without basis in fact and is given life by the weasel words of a maverick Uefa executive with an agenda against English football.
William Gaillard is supposed to be a Uefa spokesman. His job is to articulate the policies and thoughts of his bosses at European football's governing body.
Is he doing this now or is he spouting personal opinion and slinging mud?
But ever since the organisation of the Champions League final proved to be the shambles which so many inside football feared and indeed predicted, this is exactly what Gaillard has done.
Today, Liverpool fans find themselves in the firing line simply because so many of them either witnessed or fell victim to the chaotic organisation of the Athens final.
Gaillard knows the truth and as such he is frantically creating smokescreens to mask Uefa's pathetic shortcomings and attempting to shift the blame.
There are, of course, those Liverpool supporters who brought nothing but shame on themselves, their club and their city in Athens.
All those who bunked into the stadium, knowingly used forged tickets or stole tickets from fellow fans are culpable for what went wrong that night.
Their actions are indefensible and the ECHO and Liverpool FC condemn those responsible.
But they were in the minority.
There was no mass outbreak of disorder and in total there were just seven arrests out of the estimated 40,000 Liverpool fans in Athens.
And those who did make it into the stadium deserve praise for the way they accepted defeat and the sporting manner in which they greeted AC Milan's victory.
Despite this, they are today having to fend off accusations that they are Europe's worst.
When you consider some of the outrageous and downright evil incidents committed by hooligans throughout Europe in recent years, you realise quite how ridiculous Gaillard's position really is.
Do incidents like these not pose a far greater threat to the very fabric of the game than those fans who Gaillard claims stole banners from the Olympic Stadium in Athens?
Is Galliard suggesting that the snatching of tickets, although morally reprehensible and clearly criminal, is in anyway near the same league as riots resulting in death?
Tomorrow, Gaillard says Uefa will present a dossier to sports minister Richard Caborn which details 25 incidents of disorder over the last four years involving Liverpool fans.
Today Mr Caborn has told the ECHO he expects to give the report short shrift.
It is interesting that somebody chose to leak the story - bereft of any detail whatsoever - to the international news agency Reuters three days before it was due to be published.
Twenty-five incidents? What incidents? Give us the details and let us assess it against the excesses of Europe's real thugs - the ones Uefa continually fail to address.
Cynics could argue, with some justification, that Uefa was behind the leak at a time when it is under threat of legal action from furious fans, many with tasty bank balances and even tastier contacts, who failed to get into the Athens final, despite having tickets.
It could also be seen as a smokescreen while Uefa are under fire over the final arrangements.
Gaillard would have been wise to keep his opinions to himself until these allegations are made public. He leaves himself accused of self-serving spin and a flat-out agenda against English football.
No wonder many Liverpool fans - and a good deal of Everton supporters who flooded phone-ins yesterday in support of the Reds fans - are today suggesting Gaillard is merely trying to get Uefa off the hook.
We ask why Uefa isn't getting tough on the massive hooligan problem in Italy, or the sickening and overt displays of racism.
Uefa is an organisation which has failed to get its own house in order and yet its glorified press officer takes the moral high ground, instead of ordering a full inquiry into Athens.
In the absence of an inquiry we have the one-eyed findings of the Lord High Executioner himself, William Gaillard.
The man is out of control and out of excuses. This is the man who, pre-Athens, told the ECHO the stadium was "unsuitable" and after the shambles told the BBC it was "perfectly suitable".
Just two years ago, the Liverpool supporters won international acclaim for their exemplary behaviour in Istanbul when not a single Reds fan was arrested.
Four years before that, they won a special Uefa award for their outstanding behaviour during the Uefa Cup final in Dortmund.
Are we to believe that in the intervening years, they have gone from award winners to the being the worst behaved in all of Europe?
Disturbingly, there are those within the English game who believe Gaillard has an agenda against English clubs and that he will actually go out of his way to cause trouble for them.
Whatever his motives, it is clear that Galliard is unfit for the office he currently occupies.
His slurs on Liverpool FC and its fans are a disgrace to both himself and Uefa and he should apologise and resign immediately.
It is the unwritten law of public relations that when a spokesman becomes the story it is time for him to go.
He should quit.
And if his once-lauded boss Michel Platini won't sack him, it means he supports him. So he should quit too.