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Rubbish. Big FA Cup games, promotion / relegation deciders. These all happen outside the top two leagues as well. Sure they don't come round EVERY week, but then neither do FA Cup semi finals. I've been to plenty of sold-out lower division terraces, as has your good self no doubt. Just like any...

So why arn't terraces banned in lower division football then ? An overcrowded terrace could happen at ANY level of the game. But nearly two decades on from Hillsborough, hundreds of thousands of fans are still standing on terraces week in, week out without danger or incident. Makin stadiums...

As an aside, I've just noticed that today is the 25th Anniversary of the Albions SF against Sheffield Weds.

Agreed, it was a combination of factors that converged to cause it, culminating in the gates being opened. Hillsborough was a COMPLETELY avoidable disaster. Blaming it on the terracing is like blaming a faulty tail-light for a head-on smash.

Do you really believe that ? Cos I think its cobblers. Terracing IS perfectly safe if its policed properly inside and outside the ground. It was the jaw-droppingly incompetent decision to open the gates to the Leppings Lane end of the ground that was the primary cause of the disaster.

In fairness I can see where Das Reich is coming from. There was a culmination of errors on that day that led to the disaster - one of which was thousands of fans pushing their way into the ground because the game had kicked off. But the memorial service is to remember and pay respect to the...

I'm sure that will be high on the agenda at the memorial today Das Reich. :rolleyes:

Apparently Benitez and Rick Parry are attending a memorial today. Not to belittle it of course, but whats the significance of the 19th anniversary ? 20th yes, but 19th ? Do they do this every year ?