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Cant see any other mention on here, anniversary today, sad times that. Wasn't old enough to remember it at the time but from what i have seen since
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8668479.stm Remembering the Bradford City fire The blaze that engulfed an antiquated wooden stand at the Valley Parade ground on 11 May, 1985 claimed 56 lives and injured more than 200 people. It is thought the fire - during a match between Bradford City and Lincoln City - was caused when a match or cigarette stub in a polystyrene cup was accidentally dropped on to rubbish underneath the terraces. The old boy walking while on fire |
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I remember it happening, I was watching Grandstand or something and they went around the grounds to get the latest scores. When they were at Bradford, the commentator spotted a small fire in a small corner of the stand. The cameras stayed on it and in minutes the whole stand was on fire and I remember plastic being on fire and dripping onto people's heads. It was really shit. Then the scousers got pissed in a pub and pissed on their dead and Bradford was never mentioned again. If you ask 100 people to name a football tragedy, 99 would say Hillsborough over Bradford. I know more people died but even so, it's been forgotten.
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hardly chasing the dream ffs and every ground you visited back then was pretty much the same |
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the only thing i can say i'm thankful for is that the fences weren't up or the death toll would have been far, far higher |
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