The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal stampede that happened on April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England.
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It happened during the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest.
Few minutes before the game started, the Police had opened exit gate C to reduce the overcrowding effect, and this unfortunately led to an influx of football fans entering the pens.
About 97 people had died that day, with another 766 injured, the highest death record in the history of British sports.
The match was cancelled and later restaged at Old Trafford in Manchester the following month, with Liverpool winning the FA Cup.
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How did the Liverpool accident happen?
About two thousand Liverpool fans had passed through a tunnel to the terraces, leasing to a crush in the pens.
The South Yorkshire Police (SYP) had blamed the disaster on the “football hooliganism and drunkenness of the Liverpool supporters”.
However, contrary reports showed that there was a failure of crowd control by the police.
The disaster led to the removal of fenced standing terraces in all-seater stadiums.
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