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I grew up in the 1980’s when all football fans were “scum” – ‘why can’t you behave like Rugby fans?’ was the cry you’d often hear and read in the media. Then came Bradford, Hillsborough etc. They took down the fences, treated us like humans and miraculously we started behaving like humans.<\/p>\n
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My dissertation for my degree was “Delictual liabilities of Sports Clubs to their Members and Spectators” (sounds riveting you say!).\u00a0 I studied all stadium disasters through the last 100+ years and read the transcripts for Hillsborough. Stamford Bridge, Hillsborough, Ibrox, Bradford etc.\u00a0 All these disasters where people died had commonality, they had the same basic problem of poor stadium design and an attitude to football fan management of containment and control, based upon the default position that football fans are ‘scum’ who are for the watching.\u00a0 All of that is the reason why I rail against any attempt by law-makers to associate societal problems with football – to say that football supporters are specifically uniquely misbehaving.<\/p>\n
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