Bradford Hysel Hillsborough
These three events lead to football changing forever
Stadiums in the 80s were generally run down and more concerned with penning in fans to prevent violence than health and safety of the fans
Sky football money also a factor and today's stadiums do feel much safer although a much less intense atmosphere but a price that had to be paid for fan safety
Clock end first pen at Arsenal when many more thousands of the green army turned up than was expected was f......... scary as was Bristol after the game in that alley with the horses and Derby County in Lyndhurst when police moved in to make arrests - we were just lucky it never happened to us
The behaviour of fans in the 80s was not good and in a significant number of games there was violence and aggression
Decision to open the outside gates at Hilsborough was a massive mistake - previous games the gates to the central pens were closed when full and this would have avoided the tragedy
ducking field will probably hung out to dry - think it may have been his first game in charge - those who appointed him are to blame as well as he didn't have the experience or training
It is the establishment cover up that seriously pizzes me off - Thatcher didn't want any blame attached to police and lies, perjury, changing statements etc is disgusting. It was decided that it was going to be the working class football fans fault and they made sure the truth was covered up - I believe it would have been very different if it had happened at a game of rugby
Be interesting to see the verdict on the fans behaviour