What an absolute fuck up ...

[boris the spider]

Without lots of us climbing over the fence onto the pitch at Luton in ‘85 before the kick off, something the Police allowed to happen at first, we could have seen people crushed to death. The game wasn’t all ticket, a big cup game, a high fence at the front and people desperate to get in an already packed terrace.

The authorities didn’t learn the most important lesson from that night that football stadiums and crowd safety needed urgent reform, and tragically many people lost their lives needlessly 3 years later at Hillsborough.

Totally agree. Howany Millwall fan can defend the police and have a go at football fans (yes - even scousers) after seeing what ive seen up and down the country at that time and since, is beyond me. Football fans were and still are, treated like shit and the OB never gave a damn about them,. They also covered up loads of stuff that went on, in the interests of saving their own skins. As you quite rightly say, Luton could have been a disaster, and I remember a game at Southampton around that time where if you were at the bottom of the terrace you were almost eye level with the pitch, and there was a crush at that game as well, which could've ended badly

 

[Edward Alistair]

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1986 - and this is how they were getting into Wembley but by 1989 they weren't turning up ticketless....

I was at a Charity shield in the early 80's, scousers vs Spurs and they were doing exactly the same then.
My point is that that if the police had done the same at the semi final as they did with us it would of been impossible to get that many ticketless fans near the turnstiles as there isn't enough room as the terraced houses make for a narrow road to walk along and the police would of had better control near those barriers.
The cover up that followed was not proved quick enough, many more should have suffered and for longer.

 

[Phlion54]

Fair play to the club got my match ticket & coach ticket refunded today about the only good thing about the game apart from the banter during the blackout

 

[Budgies' Boy]

Fair play to the club got my match ticket & coach ticket refunded today about the only good thing about the game apart from the banter during the blackout

Banter was fun. How they were squirming!
Likewise the stadium P.A. messages. After 15 mins of Darkness and they come out with "We have a Problem". Priceless.