Saint137

LOL, do you really think a Tory govt gave a flying **** about a bunch of dead scousers? Maggie hated football fans and Liverpool fans in particular, remember how she reacted to Heysel and the ID card scheme? She had no votes to lose in that city.

Read the report, you can download it here: http://www.southyorks.police.uk/sites/default/files/foi/significantpublicinterest/interim%20report%20hillsborough.zip No blame was laid against ticketless or drunk fans. The report specifically states that there was a drunken minority at the back of the queue but that there was no evidence to support the Police view that there were a large number of ticketless fans. Any policing effort at a football match should expect and be prepared to deal with both situations - any all-ticket/sold out match will attract people trying to buy spare tickets and we all know that generally away fans will have a few beers in the lead up to the game. It was the same then as it is now.

Fact: The Taylor report laid the blame solely at the feet of poor policing, and found no evidence to suggest that there were significant numbers of ****ed up and ticketless scousers outside. The ****ed up ticketless scousers myth was conjured up by South Yorks police to try to cover up their blatant disregard for the safety of the fans in those pens.

Austin Allegro 1.5l SE. Metallic green with racing stripes c.1989. It was better than the Dagenham Dustbin that replaced it tbh...

I love Youtube; here is the clip of the AC Milan fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone: Spine-tingling stuff and its what non-football fans will never get about the game - the solidarity between fans when its about something bigger than the game itself...

I was working in the local newsagent. Always had the radio on whilst I dished out the Echo to the paperboys and remember the reports trickling through - at first crowd trouble, then pitch invasion, then the first reports of deaths. Between two updates the death toll jumped from 13 to 31 and I remember thinking the announcer had misread it. As a regular in those penned-in terraces it really hit home - everyone who went to footie back then will I'm sure have though "There but for the grace of god..." Didn't go for a long time after that day, football seemed less important. What it did though is bring fans together - AC Mian singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" for example on the next day for example. And the Kop singing "Justice for the 96" at the start of that Cup tie a couple of years back was just spine-tingling...