Quote Originally Posted by Chippy View Post
Someone used a bit of common sense that day. To be fair, Hillsborough was an accident waiting to happen for many years
Yes. That was my point earlier in the thread.
I don't believe for one minute the Liverpool fans were all politely queuing and the tragedy just happened.
They were, I'm sure, being idiots. And I'm sure chancers without tickets had turned up.
So were that partly responsible for what happened? Yes, I'd say they were.
BUT...those sorts of things were happening up and down the country every weekend. Groups of fans were behaving like bloody idiots all the time
The police's job was to manage that. And on this occasion they didn't, and a load of people died.
As you say, it was always going to happen. Just like Bradford's wooden stand was probably always going to cause a fire one day.
Was the fans' behaviour a factor? I think it probably was. But I don't believe there was anything uniquely bad about their behaviour on that day.