Originally Posted by
MadAmster
The French immediate response was to blame the Scousers. They also said Real fans were exemplary. Sky reporters have debunked both assertions.
Were there fake tickets? Probably. The people who had them probably bought them thinking they were genuine and had paid serious coin for them. Blame the forgers, not the folk who bought them.
Even the French have now admitted that a lot of those who scaled the fences were local scallies, not Scousers.
I hadn't commented earlier because, when it comes to Liverpool, people seem entrenched in their views. Hillsborough? The gutter press and the police immediately blamed Liverpool fans. 20 years later, the inquiry showed most of the blame lay with the police and the FA for poor organisation. Heysel? As an eye witness I can tell you that the Italians were at least as much to blame as Liverpool fans and probably more so. The biggest culprits were the Heysel authorities, UEFA and Brussels police. That end of the ground was supposed to be empty as the concrete of the terrace was breaking up and was dangerous. It was decided to let ticketless people in. There were more Italians than Scousers in that end. It was Scousers who were pelted with lumps of concrete. It was Scousers carried out with stab wounds. It was an Italian who waved a pistol (later found to have been a starting pistol) which was the straw that saw the Scousers attack.
The Scousers weren't completely innocent but they were the "entity" least guilty at Heysel.