sorryForest fan here, my Dad was there so I'm very aware of why it happened. While the systems responsible for dealing with the situation failed almost uniformly, they wouldn't have been put in that situation if the thousands of Liverpool fans without tickets hadn't turned up at the ground and rioted.
I sympathise for the families of the innocent 96, but to be told I should feel sorry for the whole of Liverpool every April for the last twenty years is a little bit hard to swallow when some of those voices are from the ones that stormed the gates.
If the police had waded in with batons twirling to stop them, the scousers would now be complaining about police brutality. The fans that had no reason to be at the ground put a strain on the policing and stewards and directly caused what happened.
(I sympathise for the families of the innocent 96, but to be told I should feel sorry for the whole of Liverpool every April for the last twenty years is a little bit hard to swallow when some of those voices are from the ones that stormed the gates.
If the police had waded in with batons twirling to stop them, the scousers would now be complaining about police brutality. The fans that had no reason to be at the ground put a strain on the policing and stewards and directly caused what happened.
twig Save 6 Music,
Fri 17 Apr 2009, 11:46,
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Where's the Hysel memorial...?I don't see a big deal made of the 39 Juve fans that died there.
Still they've always got their Munich songs to keep em happy
(Still they've always got their Munich songs to keep em happy
Joe Scaramanga with a G-double-O-D vibration,
Fri 17 Apr 2009, 11:54,
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*applauds*
Griffin Saver Something, something, 2006, something.,
Fri 17 Apr 2009, 12:00,
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I whole-heartedly concur with this statement! Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Fri 17 Apr 2009, 12:13,
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