Re: Hillsborough
Originally Posted by
The Artful Todger
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https://www.spectator.co.uk/2004/10/bigleys-fate/
Only the truth.
Snip ---- " Liverpool’s failure to acknowledge, even to this day, the part played in the disaster by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground that Saturday afternoon. The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the Sun newspaper a whipping-boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion, to hint at the wider causes of the incident".
Bang-on.
Turning up late at the ground, some after drinking, must have contributed to the disaster.
The police officer in charge had to make a snap decision on the spot. If the fans had been kept out, and rioting ensued, then the cops would have been blamed for that, too.