Our columnist this week, Simon Patchett, from Fairweather Green, is a student at the University of Central Lancashire.

UEFA has been getting a little worried about the Champions League final tonight.

The football organisation fears there may be more of the violence that has blighted European football this season.

There has been no love lost between the English teams as they all competed for the biggest prize in club football, but a combination of good policing and fans knowing the boundaries has resulted in peaceful scenes.

UEFA should have anticipated trouble in Italy. After the policeman's death in Sicily which resulted in the cancellation of Italian football matches and with Roma fans having a history of violence, they should have been ready.

Instead the riot police were placed on the English side of the barrier, and when the Roma fans goaded them they got the reaction they wanted. They hit anything that moved.

The officials had the nerve to blame English fans when video evidence shows that the police were to blame.

The same happened to Spurs fans in Seville. Now believing an eye witness is not always easy especially if they have just been mixed up in football violence, but in Seville we had the perfect witness.

Sky Sports reporter Claire Tomlinson was among the Spurs fans and she saw fans being beaten indiscriminately.

This included women, children and a disabled fan who was knocked out of his wheelchair.

Now I don't know about you, but I don't know how much trouble a guy in a wheelchair can cause unless he ran over the policeman's foot.

The indiscriminate beating of people, even after they had been subdued and were defenceless on the floor, is wrong. In any other walk of life they would have been serving jail terms for GBH.

Violence erupted once again between Manchester United and Roma fans before the second leg.

The police, probably the best in Europe for policing large sporting events, calmed the situation, separated the groups and the rest of the evening went without incident.

The next morning Italians heard how their own fans had been beaten with batons but failed to mention that the trouble had started after police arrested a Roma fan for shoplifting from the United club shop.

It's about time UEFA did something about the violence in football, especially in Italy.

Michel Platini became President of UEFA this season and called for change, which unfortunately hasn't even started to happen yet.

English clubs were banned from Europe for a number of years after the deaths of Juventus fans at Heysel and surely now they need to do something similar to Italian clubs.

Unfortunately, UEFA didn't have time to react as Manchester United dished out their own punishment with a stunning 7-1 win.

UEFA need to do something quickly to save face. Maybe learning from us rather than blaming us for football violence is a good place to start.