Please God, give them some peace,” she said. “What is wrong is that it has taken 30 years to get to this point,” he said. Many of the fans did not have assigned seats, but had bought tickets for fenced areas, or terraces, where they would watch the game while standing. That configuration, also standard at the time, was prohibited in the upper echelons of British soccer after the Hillsborough tragedy. Thousands rushed forward at once, crushing those already in the crowded pens.

Source: New York Times November 28, 2019 16:18 UTC