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A police commander with plenty of experience, who would've been in charge of the event, was transferred to another station after a prank armed robbery was played by a couple officers on another officer... just months before the event

The transfer took him away from being the officer in charge of the FA Cup semifinal... and put in the much more inexperienced Duckenfield

ETA: the transfer took effect less than a month before the match

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Posted by Ellis Dee

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Posted on 6/29/17 at 6:56 am to rt3

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Duckenfield

Dude didn't even know which 2 teams were playing when a meeting to discuss plans & procedures was held prior to the match.

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Posted by BranchDawg

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Posted on 6/29/17 at 7:43 am to Ellis Dee

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Dude didn't even know which 2 teams were playing when a meeting to discuss plans & procedures was held prior to the match.

The whole security crew with the stadium was full of POS's. The same thing nearly happened a few years earlier and they got pissed with what police did to save some of the people.

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The match in 1981, when fans were crushed at Hillsborough, people could have been killed. The game proceeded, even though some fans went to hospital, many had bruised ribs. And the police took the decision to allow the fans to sit around the track.

Police indicated that had that not occurred, there could have been deaths, and the response from the chair of the club was that it was a nonsense. I think he used the phrase "bollocks".

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Posted by rt3

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Posted on 6/29/17 at 10:43 am to BranchDawg

not security crew... but rather the manager of the host club, Sheffield Wednesday

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In a post-match briefing to discuss the incident, Sheffield Wednesday chairman Bert McGee remarked: "Bollocks—no one would have been killed"

in fact... it was in reaction to the 1981 incident that they added the gates that separated each pen which made the 1989 disaster possible

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The incident nonetheless prompted Sheffield Wednesday to alter the layout at the Leppings Lane end, dividing the terrace into three separate pens to restrict sideways movement.

Yes, Wiki, I know, great source, sue me

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