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I remember that. It was terrifying. They opened one tiny gate onto the pitch side and 2000 of us had to be crushed through the gate. My feet weren't touching the ground, then I had to get under a bar, my mate helped me under the bar and I helped him. It could easily have developed into a serious...

As M20gull said, hooliganism in general made football fans 2nd class citizens that the authorities treated like animals. Heysel was so fresh in the memory back then, it gave the authorities an avenue of blame, after an almighty f*** up. The fact that it was ok to blame the fans in most peoples...

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This is great news, just 23 years too late. Those poor soles deserved much better and were victims in every sense of the word. They did not deserve to die and have themselves portrayed as drunken hooligans. Although fans did not cause the disaster, hooliganism and Heysel was an indirect factor...