Quote Originally Posted by animallittle3 View Post
The thing is if you attended the 1989 4th round cup tie at Stoke City you would have seen and experienced the very same events unfolding with our fans , thankfully minus the tragedy .

5k reds crammed in to a side terrace woefully inadequate for the numbers who made the trip that day .

It was frighteningly overcrowded , you couldn't move an inch , reds fans arrived late that day too and a gate was opened to let the fans in and ease the congestion outside the turnstiles .

It was absolutely horrific having to stand there in those circumstances and know you had little control over your own welfare .

It would have only taken a crush barrier to have given way for a tragedy to occur .

Imagine someone years later after the deaths of a dozen reds fans that day calling us out as Victim ley .

How would you feel ?
I was there at Stoke that day. Frightening. An incident I remember well. Some 2hat tried picking my wallet in the crush when the gates were opened and both myself, father and two mates had not choice but to go with the flow as people from behind pushed.
Dad said his feet never touched the ground from the gates opening to getting on the terrace. . Personally I’d have missed the start willingly rather than experience the pushing from behind.
The pushing was from BEHIND, Someone was pushing, don’t think it was the Police. Most definitely our fans.