23-10-2023, 22:34
(23-10-2023, 21:05)St Charles Owl Wrote: I went to 50 games a season home and away during the 80s, you would see these crushes outside and inside grounds week in week out, but we were all lucky as we got away with it but there were a few times where I was more than a bit scared of what was happening. The police tactics were brutal and the term herding cattle applied at every away game. The grounds were all unsafe back then as well, I remember away at Burnley where they crammed us into a terrace or the alley behind Maine Road or at Chelsea when we were in pens after fences went up. Hillsborough in 1989 was the perfect storm of everything we had seen in football during the 70s and 80s!!
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