'Always the victim, it's never your fault', a chant too far?

[Billy the Fish]

But there was absolutely no need for a chain reaction of events. You've answered your own point - it was police incompetence. A properly managed event would have avoided this. You're focusing your attention on the wrong people.

Sorry if you find this so unpalatable - but the balance that you ask for has already emerged in two independent reports which said pretty much the same thing, 23 years apart.

What I really want to know is why the officer in charge outside felt the need to open the gate. Also how a crush was developing in an area which isn't penned in and has two wide walkways for access/egress.

The Taylor report didn't go into much detail about it, does the recent report?

Obviously the main reason is that the proper crowd control measures weren't put in place by the police, but that just seems like a too simplistic answer to me and there must be other factors involved.

 

[Working class pride]

I can live with incompetence (well sack a few but that is another matter), I can live with mistakes but I cant live with The Police Federation and Chief Constable sitting is a restaurant in Sheffield and discussing how they would lie and pervert the course of justice. We rely on the police, we pay for the police, a crime by a man in a police uniform is bloody serious for us all. There has to be charges for the cover up.