Wonderful news for Hillsborourgh

Basically all policeforces have to do what their political masters tell them to do

I wonder how long it will be before the likes of "injury lawers for you"and the like will be sniffing around..

If you go to YouTube and watch the whole of Andy Burnham's speech in Parliament yesterday, a lot of the questions and incorrect reporting about Hillsborough is detailed. Part of the issue that drew out the resolution was that the Police, possibly other agencies, had millions of pounds of legal support, whilst until the latter stages, the families did not. This made the initial enquiries an unlevel playing field.

I wonder how long it will be before the likes of "injury lawers for you"and the like will be sniffing around..

I think that they've been there already!! The first private cases are already in the pipeline.

I  must  be  extremely  naive,  but  I  had  hoped  that  the  acceptance  of  the  new  Coroners  Court's  verdict  would  bring  an  end  to  this  whole  sorry  saga.  Alas  it  seems  it  will  now  continue  in  more  &  diverse  court  cases  until  the  world  forgets  why  they  are  at  each  others  throats  just  that  they  are  !!

So  very,  very  sad.

Brian.

I wonder if after this court case, changes will be made in security arrangements within football stadiums.  Will football clubs provide their own stewards to maintain order, meaning that the police will no longer be required to be on duty within stadiums.

K

There have been massive changes in how football stadia are designed, built, organised, staffed and supervised since 1989. Not just relating to Hillsborough, but other significant events as well.

I can only relate to the grounds I have visited as a spectator, but all have well organised ticket checking/number control, stewards ensuring visitors get to their allocated seat, stewards constantly monitoring how visitors behave, CC cameras monitoring spectators, access gates carefully controlled to filter crowds, and depending upon the nature of the game, teams involved, an appropriate police presence. Not all grounds, particularly lower division/older grounds, have all the above. I was at Hillsborough last year, Leppings Lane away end. Awful ground, only other we visited as bad was Oakwell at Barnsley. But lots of stewards, lots of helpers, appropriate amount of police.

i was watching the match on the telly when it happened  bleeding awfull , finally some one may be held accountable .

96 

Yes, we watched those awful events unfold as well Golly. Not something you can easily forget. Used to be a big event locally, hosting one of semi finals. My Dad went to a couple of semi's in 1970's, wouldn't take me, said it was too dangerous, huge crowds etc....

My gut feeling is that any police force should not be held responsible for the behaviour of fans at events and that police should no longer do crowd control and it should be left to private security organisations.

I am wondering how much this whole episode has cost the taxpayer to date and how much more is it going to cost once the greedy lawyers submit claims for compensation for events that took place 27 years ago?