As a liverpool fan, I've heard and read a lot about the hillsborough disaster over the years, from the alleged cover ups to the survivors heartbreaking stories. 23 years and 5 months on from that fateful day when 96 men, women and children went to a football match but never made it home, I find myself reading with increasing anger and astonishment, the findings of the Hillsborough independent panel report. That it wasn't the fans fault, there was no evidence to suggest ticketless fans, violence or drunkenness was to blame. That's what they wanted everyone to believe, that fans stole from the dead and pissed on police trying to help the helpless victims. It was a number of errors that culminated in Britain's biggest sporting disaster. The fact Sheffield Wednesday had not had an updated safety
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