[St Charles Owl]

Totally agree with what you lot are saying.
I just found out this week that he who had his two daughters crushed to death had actually told them to go stand in there as he didn't want them stood with him.
What a twat! Make no wonder he's desperate to pass the guilt on.

Trevor Hicks is the guy you are referring to.  He actually sat in the North Stand but the story I heard was they didn't want to sit for the game so got tickets for the standing area instead!  Really felt for him losing two daughters that way but he was one of the guys saying all sorts of things afterwards, including asking for Sheffield Wednesday to be forced to close down!!!!

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Phil Scraton wrote a book I read called Hillsborough where he went through all the event in great detail. It was a very good read and certainly called a lot of the problems that occurred that day including the lack of any real medical assistance that could certainly have helped save a bunch of lives in those crucial minutes after the crush was discovered, but again he completely ignored all the pushing and shoving by Liverpool fans outside the ground!!

I really felt for the cop who eventually made the decision to open the gate, he would have been crucified had he not done so and people had died outside a ground!! Imagine the headlines, 'people die because police didn't want ticketless fans in the ground!!" As it was he knows his life saving action was one of the factors that caused the deaths!! Not closing the entrace to the tunnel was another huge factor and this was down to Duckenfield either freezing or simply not being familiar with that stand to know to close the entrance before the outside gate was opened!!

As I say, it was a catalog of errors and events that caused it, not one thing only!!