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I honestly don't know how to respond to that.
Anyway, I stand by my statement. Someone said that the Liverpool supporters are 100% innocent, and I don't believe that's true. We can argue it back and forth, but I truly don't think you can 100% say that they are faultless in what happened.
I can only assume you never went to a football match in the 1980's. Fans were treated like animals. I used to stand on the Shelf and every big game at Spurs saw the same spectacle. The Park Lane was divided into pens, each one fenced off from the other with just a gate at the top. They would usually open the half the stand at the beginning and the away fans would enter though the corner at the West Stand. And you could see it filling up and they'd wait till all the pens were completely full - overly full - and fans were singing "Open up the fucking gate!" And they would eventually would with bodies pressed up against the fences and fans would come streaming through the small gap and whole sequence would repeat over again and all the while more fans were coming from the same single entrance. Absolutely no consideration was given to the fans safety and the Park Lane at White Hart Lane could easily have been another Hillsborough.