Overnight a jury found that 96 football fans were "unlawfully killed" in the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster because of mistakes by the police. The verdicts mark the conclusion of inquests that lasted more than two years into Britain's worst sporting disaster.
Hillsborough, the home of Sheffield Wednesday, was the neutral venue for the 1989 FA Cup semifinal between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, a tragic match that will live on in infamy.
A human disaster led to the deaths of 96 people, and well over 700 were injured. Inept policing and crowd control had collided with the inherent British football problem of outdated football stadiums as the innocent were crushed at the Leppings Lane end of the ground, the area allocated to the Liverpool fans.
The background to the disaster was years of football hooliganism which had blighted football leading. One crude solution to hooliganism was the building of high steel fences blocking spectator entry to the pitch. In those days, spectators stood in certain parts of all grounds, something that is not allowed any more.
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