[alscarface]

RIP the 96 YNWA

[Squeak]

Originally Posted by VOYEUR ↗

The police were blamed....but, hundreds of drunken fucking Liverpool fans rushed the closed gates, the police panicked, opened the gates.....result, drunken scum pushing from the rear....they go mad if you blame them, but it was them....scum.

You dick. The police responsibility is to organise crowds into queues and to keep order on their way towards the ground, the gates and turnstyles should be the last control point fans reach, not the only control point.

The Liverpool fans had little interaction with police on their way to the turnstyles and so as the kick-off approached and the crowd was massed around the turnstyles, eagrness to get in became apparent and a crush was developing forcing those police outside gate C to request it being opened 'to save life'.

It was opened and the crowd simply walked into the tunnel directly ahead of them, and like sheep, the people behind simply followed in the steps of those ahead of them.

The pens behind the goal were already packed before the gate was opened.

The football ground staff and the older police knew the ground and the choke points and what actions to take to remedy situations, and so the second mistake was in not blocking this tunnel off and diverting the fans to pens on either side. The first mistake being the lack of crowd control on the approach to the ground. To quote the match commander, we let the crowd "find its own level".

The police had put an inexperienced man in charge that day.... and he didn't know what he shoud be doing.

[Dott Branning]

Originally Posted by Vedderman ↗

On one hand, I recoil in horror from the gross logistical mismanagement that resulted in these senseless deaths.

On the other, I see a bleating herd of human sheeple, voluntarily allowing themselves to be packed into a pen like livestock. For what? Fucking football.

Blame the cops, blame the administrators, blame whoever you want to blame for this travesty, but ultimately everyone of those people would have survived the day if they'd stayed home to watch the game on telly or at the pub with some friends. Or if they just chose to sit and read a fucking book instead.

I have never placed myself anywhere near to this sort of completely preventable disaster because the idea of being jammed in with so much collected human filth is so abhorrent to me that I'd sooner shoot myself in the fucking head.

Anyone who willingly follows a meandering drunken herd into a fucking livestock pen for any reason whatsoever has eliminated any chance at sympathy from me.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

Get help bro..

[SJMike]

God that would be awful. I hope no one there was claustrophobic

[Brownboybilly]

[FavaBeans]

Im sorry but id be climbing up people

[philovan]

Originally Posted by FavaBeans ↗

Im sorry but id be climbing up people

Nice thought. However when the crush hits you suddenly in a crowd surge from behind you are pressed so tightly against the people in front of you that you can't move, never mind climb. I've seen it happen.

[Lim Jahey]

Fuck football. It's all about the money. Don't let them fool you. They make millions and can't even make a stadium big enough.

[Saffron55]

Terrible tragedy RIP all those who died

[sweetie88]

I was drving past with my baby, the fans were storming the gates, police horses were looking to be lifted off the ground,i heard them and saw them they appeared to be drunk, this was after kick off, coaches letting more off, i couldnt get away trapped in traffic, they were not queuing to get in, it was like a riot, they were crushing at the entrance, i think they didnt care and just wanted to get in, hence the tragedy, many would have been injured outside? so opened the gate, outside or inside football hooligans will cause harm to decent people who are genuine fans, and those people perished because of the drunk unruly people who stormed the ground, the decent family and fans were already there and were killed by hooligans