Hillsborough - Hoping that my article might lead to a little reflection nufc
Hillsborough – Hoping that my article might lead to a little reflectionI got into a recent discussion in the comments section about Hillsborough with some regular contributors to this site.On the one hand, knowing that my views will not be with everyone, popular whilst on the other, hoping that my article might lead to a little reflection.
Thatcher believed football fans were as much of a menace as striking trade unionists and the right-wing media gave the impression to anyone who didn’t attend matches, that to do so was inherently unsafe. The Football Spectators Act of 1989 even made ID cards compulsory for anyone wanting to attend a match, a plan that was thankfully abandoned after the Hillsborough disaster.
On this site, many tales have been exchanged concerning ‘how it was, when it was’, including how football violence during that era was often part and parcel of the match day experience, for those who wanted it. Liverpool fans seem to get a harder press than most on here. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen it first hand, around the streets of Anfield, but also Goodison and frankly, further afield. At the time of the disaster, Liverpool FC were perhaps the best team in the land.
This myth was allowed to gather credence because of the lies that were told on the day, and further perpetuated in the days after the disaster. Lies that the establishment told. Even then, the police advanced the same allegations at the inquest the following year and in March 1991, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death.
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