: Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:39 pm
Lets consider some of the good things that have come out of this
Disaster.
Then: Hundreds of Ticketless fans turned up and created a mass crush killing 96 people.
Now: Travelling without a ticket is now strongly discouraged. Ticketless fans are now (often) prohibnited from getting so close to the ground. The the Punishment for attempeting to enter a ground without a ticket is now an offence.
Then: At grounds across the country crowds were fenced in like animals.
Now: We have some fantastic stadiums across the country now.
Then: Decisions by the Police led to hundreds of ticketless fans being let into an already packed enclosure.
Now: The Taylor report was a Water shed in polcing of major sporting events!