DOES THIS GO TO THE TOP

THE TRUTH

After the news that there will be an inquiry into a cover up at Hillsborough. How far up the ladder does this go?. After reading the 400 page report in full .it brings back one thing that through the emotion of the terrible event that I had forgot.

 (Q) The reason why I never went to the game.
 It was my first reaction to the events unfolding after 6 minutes past 3 on that fateful day. The crushing in and outside of the ground at the Leppings Lane end of the ground was so bad in 1988, It put me right off going to the 1989 semi-final. It jogged my memory about the crush at the turnstiles. But more so the crush going through the tunnel, to the central pen behind the goal.

 I remember two thirds through the tunnel how bad the crush had been with people starting to panic. As we came out of the tunnel we moved left. I can now recall a message over the tannoy to step backward to avoid unnecessary crowd congestion or words to that effect. Within 10 minutes the crush had gone. I had looked up the tunnel 30 minutes into the game. The tunnel was completely empty. As I realized through reading the report the Police had shut the gates to the tunnel. Then emptying the tunnel, sending people to the side pens. It was all pretty scary stuff cementing my decision not to go the following year.
As the events of 1989 unfolded being young these memories were erased by frantic phone calls trying to get information about families and friends.
But reading the report I get the feeling how could anyone let this happen, more so with the events of the previous year.  Which the report goes into in detail. 

The conspiracy theorist round the world could jump on the band wagon saying that 1988 was a dry run.  If you wanted to inflict great harm on a group of people, Hillsborough would be the perfect place.
I hear you say that is going too far the Yorkshire Police planned the disaster. Well it is not as far-fetched as a Police force being so incompetent. Followed by the mother of all cover ups, secret meeting in pubs, altering statements the list goes on.

So planned attack aside how far up the chain of command did this cover up go?. The rift between Liverpool the city and Thatcher was no secret. The city’s socialist roots Derrick Hatton held her to ransom nearly bringing her to yield. The city’s backing of the Miners going up against her on picket lines. Along with OH YES the SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE.  Her uniformed thugs deployed all over the country including the poll tax riots . Also I think they were involved in the Battle of the Bean field.

So the City of Liverpool was not on the top of her Christmas card list.  But let us not forget Heysel where 39 mostly Italian fans lost their lives. I was at Heysel it was a cigarette paper thin chance that it was not Liverpool fans that lost their lives in Brussels. But Thatcher had no ears for the failing in the authority’s to stage the final in a death trap stadium. Or the fact that two thirds of the stadium was allocated to Italian fans. Considering that Liverpool FC were the reigning champions. The fact that Liverpool fans in Rome the year before had been on the wrong end of countless viscous attacks and stabbings. Her barging powers in Europe must have taken a nose dive after Heysel. After all Brussels is the home of the European Parliament who knows what deals she was planning when Heysel happened.

So was Hillsborough pay back, it seems so far-fetched  But was behavior of the South Yorkshire Police/South Yorkshire Ambulance Service on that day far-fetched  The neutral before the report thought it was.  The fact that the Police/ Ambulance Service had a call sign to use for a major incident, it was never used. But the list of injustice is endless. So who is going to take the wrap, how high is it going to go? All we can do is watch this space and support the families for justice at last. YNWA JF96