Lucky that at matches that shitloads of hooligans attended that 90-odd fans were not killed each time? Or even one? Seems legit.Originally Posted by Letters
Lucky that at matches that shitloads of hooligans attended that 90-odd fans were not killed each time? Or even one? Seems legit.
Football in that era was pretty dangerous. The fact that there were not more tragedies is more a matter of luck than judgement is my point. A 'Hillsboro' can't happen today in the PL because of all seater stadium and the prices being such that more nice, polite, middle-class people like me go along and 'TheHerd' element are less prevalent. Back in the day it was a tragedy waiting to happen.
People died, people lied about why they died, it's now known publically it was a lie.
I wouldn't pretend to be an expert. I don't know enough. But the idea of 'bad luck' rearing its head in this one particular instance - in an era rife with football hooliganism and ticketless fans - seems very dubious.
I'm not saying it was bad luck. Clearly the police were incompetent. My point is they were probably incompetent on plenty of other occasions when nothing happened. In the same way that the Titanic could have sailed for years without enough lifeboats and no-one would have died. Most of the time you get away with these things but not always.
You're an educated person. I'm sure you don't need me to conflate everything into a paragraph just because you can't be bothered to find out for yourself. And no, that doesn't just mean me directing you to a long-winded report, which I haven't done.
Can you read it and summarize kthxpls
As for compensation, some families have already received a few thousand (£5/6k). It has been reported one single police officer received £330k for post traumatic stress! SYP won't reveal how much money they have paid to officers, but it's thought to be at least £1m.
well you havent done anything. Which would've been my next guess.
I don't need you to but in terms of this discussion it would be helpful.
I don't approve of the policemen receiving payouts simply because if you're going to into that sort of job surely this sort of thing comes with the territory. I know this was a pretty extreme event but still.
I'm sure The Sun will summarize tomorrow. I'll read it there.
(see what I did there, cos...oh never mind)
Next guess?
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