Ninh explains what's really happened at the Hillsborough disaster the
Hillsborough disaster is one of the most tragic events in English football
history but what really happened on the day where 96 Liverpool fans lost their
lives the story begins Saturday the 15th of
April 1989 and it's the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and
Nottingham Forest it's due to kick off at 3 p.m. and the match is being held at
Hillsborough the home stadium of Sheffield Wednesday it's a sellout and
all 54,000 tickets have been sold by new fans have started to arrive and
Liverpool supporters have been allocated the West End of Hillsborough that keeps
them away from the Nottingham Forest fans arriving from the south this also
means that Liverpool supporters will all have to pass through one entrance
Leppings Lane 10,000 Liverpool supporters have tickets for the standing
terraces but they'll have to enter through just seven turnstiles by 2:00
p.m. a little over 2,000 supporters have done so meaning that 8,000 are still to
come in the hour before kickoff after passing through the turnstiles many fans
go straight down the tunnel leading into the central pens behind the goal
pens three and four by quarter past two a crowd is starting to build outside the
stadium and it increases rapidly over the next 15 minutes progress through the
turnstiles are steady but slow and inside a loudspeaker message ask the
people on the terrorists and move forwards and spread along sideways but
high fences divide the pens and gates between them are at the back so the more
four pens become the harder it is to switch pens
the man in charge of the match chief superintendent David duckenfield and
another officer discuss whether to delayed kickoff to give people more time
to enter the ground they decide against doing so outside Liverpool supporters
are pressing against the turnstiles and by 2:45 only 5,000 fans are through
meaning that there are still more than 4,000 fans with tickets for the terraces
outside the ground thousands are now packed into the
Leppings Lane bottleneck stationed outside Superintendent Roger Marshall
makes several requests for the permission to open the exit gate to
relieve the pressure inside the ground central pens are filling up Chief
Superintendent duckenfield gives the order and gates see is opened more than
1,400 fans head in through the gates and many head into the packed pens three and
four the gate remains open for about five minutes
match kicks off just before 3 p.m. and the crush at the front of the pants is
getting dangerous a barrier breaks in PEM 3 and people fall forwards
increasing the pressure on those fronts at this point people are dying the sheer
weight of the amount of bodies in the Pens causes asphyxiation and people are
suffocating to death due to the pressure people's faces are turning black and
blue and it's pretty obvious that this is now life and death as the crush
intensifies some fans escape by climbing over the fence on the front it's
apparent that this is now an emergency and the police stop the match at 6
minutes past three desperate people are lifted over the top of the fences and
fans in the upper stand tried to pull others to safety police try to free
those at the front through the narrow gate near the pitch but there are not
enough stretchers so supporters use advertising hoardings to carry the
injured ambulances are slow to arrive and have a hard time getting to the
injured fans due to the poor communication between themselves and the
police the first ambulance arrives at 3:14 but many of the fans are already
dead in total 96 fans died as a result of the
Hillsborough disaster and out of those 96 only 14 ever made it to a hospital
the rest died at the football ground their bodies laid to rest inside a local
gymnasium in the aftermath the police blamed the
fans accusing them of being drunk and disorderly and suggesting that the crowd
surged was due to the thousands of fans turning up without tickets they also
indicate that it was the fans who were responsible for forcing open gates see
this and many other stories absolving the police of responsibility were fed to
the media in particular to the most popular newspaper at the time the son
who in typical tabloid fashion sensationalized the news and paraded
these lies from the police as the truth which did not endear them to anyone in
the city of Liverpool in 1989 an investigation led by Justice Peter
Taylor sought to find out the real cause of the disaster and later that next year
the Taylor report came out they recommended complete reforms of football
stadiums across the country and is the reason why there are no more standing
terraces in English football in 1991 an inquest into the deaths of fans
concluded that the deaths were accidental but the relatives of the
deceased were not happy with this decision over 25 years of fighting and
lawsuits ensued and a new inquest in 2009 led by the Hillsborough independent
panel reopens the case they find that police reports have been changed and/or
sanitized to absolve them of blame there had been an obvious cover-up and the
police had been caught red-handed a new round of inquests begins and more
than 800 eyewitnesses were called to testify in one of the longest cases in
british legal history in 2016 7 years after reopening the case the jury
overturns the initial decision of accidental death and finds that the 96
fans were unlawfully killed on that day and that superintendent Duncan fields
actions the police and the slow response of the ambulances contributed to the
loss of life 41 of the 96 fans could have been saved if the police responded
more rapidly instead of standing by and waiting on orders as a random side note
despite an apology from the sub newspaper the newspaper is still not
sold in the city of Liverpool the people don't buy it
and shops refused to sell it so in a nutshell this is exactly what happened
at the Hillsborough disaster and these are facts that you can easily
verify but who was really to blame for this disaster it's my humble opinion
that's the inadequate organisation from the police and the stadium design is
what caused the disaster Liverpool fans are not to blame for what happened here
on that fateful day now Regulus of my channel will know that I'm
a Manchester United fan and at this point of the video
I'd like to apologize unreservedly for the behavior of some of our fans the
small minority of us United fans chants about Hillsborough and I personally find
it to be very disgusting and certainly not indicative of the majority of
Manchester United fans out there so if you have been offended by one of us I
deeply apologize but there are still some theories out there that could still
pin the blame on Liverpool fans and I'll try and address those now the theory
that fans were drugged and this is what contributed to the disaster as you can
tell from the police reports they pin the blame on Liverpool fans being drunk
and disorderly and when the 96 fans autopsies were done they made special
care to take the blood alcohol levels of these fans now obviously this caused a
bit of a stir with the families of the deceased but if we were to use this
a cross-section of fans out of those 96 fans only six of them were deemed to
have alcohol levels which could indicate that they may have been intoxicated if
you the quick mass is just over six percent now six percent of a football
crowd having alcohol in them is an incredibly low number so the police
theory that the vast majority of the fans were drunk is simply not true
because six percent is an incredibly low number the theory that thousands turned
up without tickets and this is what contributed to the crush back in the day
it was commonplace to try and sneak into football matches especially during
popular games like the FA Cup semi-final etc and the police argued that thousands
of fans turned up without tickets obviously this was a really stupid move
as nobody checked if these guys had tickets or not but the overall theory
remains that there were thousands without tickets that attended that game
that day to combat this theory what they did is that they looked at the CCTV
footage and paused it frame by frame and counted every head the actual number
that went through Gacy 1,400 which is less than the thousands of the police
alleged and is actually about the right number that could have stood in those
terraces it's about right the figures do add up so the theory that thousands of
fans turned up without tickets is simply bogus the theory that it's the Liverpool
fans fault because this has never happened before actually it has eight
years earlier at a similar semi-final between Tottenham Hotspur and
Wolverhampton the exact same scenario played out and it was almost the
Tottenham fans that got crushed to death on that day the police allowed the
overflow to actually sit on the field behind the goals and this prevented the
crushing of hundreds of fans now at the time this was a non-event nobody
reported on it because nobody died but the fact that it happened eight years
earlier with a completely different team indicates that this is not a
problem-specific to Liverpool fans the only theory that cannot rightfully be
debunked is the fact that the Liverpool fans were actually trying to push their
way into the stadium if we take a course look at the CCTVs
you can clearly see that the Liverpool fans are trying to push in it's there in
black and white you cannot dispute this now if they're pushing outside the
stadium when there's no reason to push at all what are they doing inside the
stadium and furthermore the other theory that cannot be debunked and sorry to
have to bring this up this is the elephant in the room the hazel disaster
the hazel disaster is a similar stadium crush we're live pool fans breached a
neutral gate and it caused Juventus fans to flee and crush 39 of their own fans
Liverpool fans were found to be 100% guilty of this and it got England banned
for five years in Europe and them for six years this cannot be ignored and I
know it's a separate incidence but it's possible that those same sets of fans
were in attendance that day and it's also possible that if they have that
sort of mentality that is possible that that sort of mentality played out on
this day obviously there's no outright proof of this and here in England you're
innocent until proven guilty so technically innocent they are my
final thoughts my final thoughts is that Liverpool fans are not to blame for this
disaster poor policing and bath stadium management contributed significantly
more than any other factor and rightly so in an inquest where they actually
found the police cover-ups the the right people were brought to justice so I'm of
the opinion that Lupul fans were not to blame but that's not the question I want
you to take away from this video the question I want you to ask is that can
every fan in attendance that day be 100% blameless for what's happened at
Hillsboro is it solely the police's fault is it solely the stadium design or
maybe just maybe there's a small group of fans out there with the blood of 96
people on their hands I can't answer that question but maybe you can let me
know what you think in the comment section below and thank you very much
for watching
Ninh Ly - www.ninh.co.uk - @NinhLyUK