The terrace was divided up into three cages or pens, and as the gate opened, hundreds of Liverpool fans flooded in Gate C without their tickets being checked. Despite the fact that people were already dying on the terrace, the Liverpool fans kept coming as the game kicked off. The sanitising of 164 officers’ statement was done to divert blame from the South Yorkshire Police Force towards the Liverpool fans. It was shortly after the 1996 Jimmy McGovern documentary on Hillsborough that Scraton met with a former South Yorkshire police officer. The events of Hillsborough changed the face of British football forever but 30 years on, the fight for justice for the 96 goes on.

Source: Irish Examiner April 12, 2019 23:03 UTC