shrimpnsave wrote:steve mfc wrote:Check out the Accy forum apparently they will have to get their flags treated to make them fireproof. Is this taking Health and Safety too far ?.
it makes you think doesnt it,how has the human race survived without h/s
Ibrox 1963- Problems on stairway 13 led to two people dying. Despite improvements, in 1971 a crush on the same stairway led to 66 people dying and around 200 injuries. Lessons weren't learnt.
Bradford 1985- Fire claimed the lives of 56 football fans, 54 from Bradford, two from Lincoln. A build up of dirt, paper etc had collected under the flooring and caught fire when someone discarded a cigarette. Fire escapes were padlocked, the same as they were at the Summerland disaster in 1973, where 50 people died in a nightclub fire and Woolworths in Manchester 1979, when ten people were killed where again, exits were padlocked and windows were barred. Lessons weren't learned here either.
Heysel 1985- Liverpool fans breached a security fence. Juventus fans retreated causing a crush against a wall that eventually collapsed, killing 39 people and injuring about 600.
Hillsborough 1989- 96 Liverpool fans crushed to death against fences designed to keep people off the pitch. Perhaps the 'wrong' lessons were learned after disasters like Heysel?
255 people who went to watch a game of football but never came home in four incidents involving British clubs over the last forty years. That's just mentioning infamous incidents with large loss of life at single incidents. It is only a few weeks ago that a Blackburn fan went to watch a game but never returned after being hit on the head by a thrown rubbish bin. Back in 1985 or 86 we played at Bangor City in the Northern Premier League. They had played in the European Cup so had Hillsborough style cages behind the goal for away fans. One of their idiots (bearing in mind how soon after the Bradford disaster this was) ran across the corner of the pitch and stole a flag of St George, returned to their wooden stand and set fire to it. We realised that if the fire got out of control, we were screwed because we couldn't get out of the cage.
So to answer your question '
how did we survive without Health & Safety?' Well, usually good luck... and sadly, frequently we didn't.