Quote Originally Posted by William Treseder View Post
“The same old names on here” is also a particular feeble line.
I don’t think anyone i’ve ever spoke to about this has denied that the police made mistakes and disgustingly tried to lie their way out of it. Thats a given.
What annoys me is that nobody seems willing to take into account that there were Liverpool fans without tickets who ran in, and the fact that the fences would not have needed to be up if it wasn’t for the disgusting behaviour of thousands of hooligan scum around in that era.
I said the same old names because that’s what it is. Whenever the subject of Hillsborough comes up on here, there’s always a few who have to have a dig at the Liverpool fans - if you’re talking four years earlier at Heysel, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest Liverpool fans were culpable there, but what convincing evidence is there that the same applies at Hillsborough? For some, the line seems to be that they were guilty at Heysel,so they must have done something wrong at Hillsborough.

As for fences, yes it’s an indictment on so many who went to games in the seventies that it came to a situation when fences were needed, but they’d been a part of the game for more than a decade when the tragedy at Hillsborough occurred which only makes the decisions made by those in charge that day even worse.