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Rambis

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5. Heysel, Hillsborough "It doesn't have to be like that"

Reply to Ron Obvious (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 18, 2013, 03:57 PM

Nov 2013

But it was like that and people died. I'm not going to get into a debate about "safe standing" but lets not gloss over the deaths of people who went to a football match and didn't come home with....

Yeah, yeah, Heysel, we all know.

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