PONTIAN SEA EAGLE link said:
Not sure you can blame the police that day,they were simply outnumbered by Liverpool supporters rioting outside wanting to get in.The groundsmen had no choice but to open the gates to which that goal end where the Liverpool supporters were gathered was allready filled.The crowd outside then ran in pushing forward those allready inside & stampeding on everyone killing all those that died.Ps vid we need united to drop points the next few weeks.Â
Sorry Pontian but you are wrong on your point.
Not sure if you saw the doco last night or have read the links that I posted (The independant report into the tragedy (The Taylor report) places the blame squarlely on the loss of control by the police....
"THE TAYLOR REPORTS (source http://www.liv.ac.uk/footballindustry/hborough.html)
The failure to close or block the tunnel leading into the already full pens three and four once the police had ordered Gate C to be opened was the immediate cause of the disaster, but the public inquiries set up by the Thatcher Government under Lord Justice Peter Taylor found, more generally, that football had simply not learned anything from the numerous disasters in its past, that it and the police were so
obsessed with the threat of violence that they were unable to spot people in genuine danger of their lives, that police fundamentally lost control of the situation, and did not demonstrate the leadership expected of senior officers, that safety procedures were inadequate, that the ground was badly maintained and dangerous, that fans were routinely treated with contempt by football, and that fans had been the victims
rather the guilty party. His reports, published in August 1989 and January 1990, dismissed the allegations against Liverpool supporters for the disaster, and called instead for a total rethink in the industry's attitudes towards fans, and on the issue of safety. It also highlighted the failures by local authorities to check safety certificates for stadia (Sheffield Wednesday had redeveloped parts of the ground without obtaining a new safety certificate, or telling the emergency services: the result was that the safety certificate was outdated and useless, and that plans Sheffield Wednesday had developed with the local emergency services could not be put into practice, as the layout of the ground had changed).