MAIL ONLINE: Manchester City staff help road accident victim hours after bus attack

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Professor Cary Cooper of the Manchester Business School told Press Association Sport: “They should have suspended the game, they should never have had the game go ahead.

“Not with players on the bus being intimidated like that. Number one, (suspending the game) is a way of punishing Liverpool and number two it’s a way of sending a message that this shouldn’t happen, but there’s no way (the Manchester City players) couldn’t have been affected by that.

“UEFA wouldn’t have the guts to cancel it for financial reasons – television rights, the people in the stadium.

“The performance was totally uncharacteristic. They must have been unsettled and it must have had a psychological impact on them.

“People think footballers are resilient, but they are normally cosseted, away from the public, they’re really well protected – and they’re young.

“The majority of them are in their 20s, they’re not necessarily life-mature and have been cosseted since the age of 16-17. Then they go to work on a bus and the bus gets attacked before a big event.”