How generous of Michel Platini to come out and admit that Liverpool fans are officially not the worst in Europe after all.
After a week of spin, subterfuge and orchestrated leaks to the media, the UEFA chief finally had the balls to tell us what we already knew.
The insinuation that Liverpool fans were some sort of barbaric tribe, raping and pillaging its way across Europe would have been funny if it wasn't so damaging.

Reputations are so easily damaged in the modern media age and that is why UEFA spent much of the last 7 days trying to smear Liverpool - they knew that if we were retrospectively portrayed as thugs and hooligans the spotlight would be taken off their own failings in Athens and shifted onto the fans.
It worked, of course, you only had to watch Sky Sports News to see that.
The satellite channel absolutely revelled in the slurs being levelled at Liverpool fans, a story which was at the top of their news agenda for an entire week.
Every time they ran the story they showed the same 10 second snatch of coverage of about 15 fans getting into the Olympic Stadium as if it provided compelling evidence of the ground being stormed.
They then asked for the views of people at home - whether they'd been to the game or not.
What was the point of that? What could people who were not even there possibly add to the discussion, apart from speculation and opinion backed up by precious little fact.
So what they ended up with was scores of people taking the opportunity to take cheap shots at the Liverpool fans based on nothing but that 10 second snatch of footage and UEFA's spin on events.
If it had been a courtroom the "evidence" of these "witnesses" would have been dismissed but when you're conducting trial by media you don't have to worry about speculative nonsense being spouted and the facts being forgotten.
It is this that does the damage and because of this those news networks and newspapers that became the agents of UEFA's whitewash should today be taking a long hard look at themselves.
If you are guilty of falling for the spin then somewhere along the line you must have neglected to examine the facts. And that is how sensationalism replaces genuine news gathering.
There were seven arrests in Athens over a four day period in which more than 40,000 Liverpool fans visited the Greek capital.
The travelling Reds also applauded Milan off the pitch after being beaten by them in the final.
Are these really the actions of the "baddest men on the planet?"
At best, parts of the media are guilty of not examining the facts and falling for the UEFA spin, at worst they could be accused of playing a willing and active role in the distortion of fact and the undermining of a reputation.
Not surprisingly, when Platini announced UEFA's u-turn yesterday afternoon it didn't make anywhere near the same headlines on Sky Sports News.
Even Jobi McAnuff's potential move from Crystal Palace to Watford was deemed a bigger and more important news story.
Alex Ferguson is always banging on about the so-called Liverpool Mafia which he believes runs the BBC, but if that's true then who the hell runs Sky Sports News? The lads who post on the When Skies Are Grey and Red Issue message boards?
One thing that is still bugging me is what's happened to that dossier of 25 incidents which Gaillard so famously claimed marked Liverpool's fans out as the worst of the worst?
Could it be, by any chance, that he was guilty of sexing this document up and UEFA are now too embarrassed to let it see the light of day?
If it is so damning then let's see it because unless we know what the problems are then it's impossible to deal with them.
And one last thing, Gaillard also made a claim that the 25 incidents were detailed by undercover police officers who have been present at Liverpool's European away games over the last four years.
I have it on impeccable authority that no such undercover investigation ever took place so Gaillard alone knows where he got that line come from.
Maybe it's time for Sky Sports News to launch an investigation into Mr Gaillard.

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