jamesha
Well-Known Member
I have never heard the stadium design being cited as a major cause of the Hillsborough disaster but it obviously was. As a season ticket holder on The Kippax at the time I was glad that no fences were in place running down the terracing. If that semi had been held at Maine Road no injuries would have happened.IIRC, Hillsborough was taken off the semi-final roster after that 1981 incident for 6 years and they insisted on Sheffield Wednesday making safety improvements before it could be considered as a semi-final venue again. Unfortunately, those improvements involved making the terrace into 5 individual pens and although those pens had gates in the fences leading to the other pens, bizarrely it turned the Leppings Lane into an even bigger death-trap than it was previously ffs!