Quote: Northernrelic "We live in a blame culture I am afraid, some people are never satisfied until the finger can be pointed at someone, preferably with the funds to pay compensation.'"
Indeed.
Quote: Northernrelic "The truth seems to be the ground itself wasn't suitable for the size of crowd that day, '"
A fact established several times by the people charged with public order and crowd safety by several other experiences in the years leading up to this game.
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the police paniced by the crush outside the ground opened up the exit gate without thinking about where the fans would then go.
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And without any regard to their previous experiences in that same ground and same stand.
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But all the people calling for the heads of the various policemen should ask themselves what they would have done in that split second situation without the wonderful benefit of hindsight.'"
I'd have organised a systematic campaign of lies and blame shifting so that the dead were the ones left to carry the can. That way my ignoring all my previous experience of exactly the sorts of problems that led to those deaths would begin to look less like the kind of irresponsibility that leads to manslaughter charges and more like I was a participant in a thankless task which had gone tragically wrong thanks to the actions of drunken, small minded idiots. Then I'd trust in the willingness of people to believe the story they first heard no matter how in depth the proof that it was all bull, lies and misdirection actually was.