WhistleHappy Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 Scary reminder .... wishing all injured fans full & speedy recoveries, . http://www.smh.com.au/sport/soccer/soccer-fans-injured-after-stadium-barrier-collapses-at-amiens-20170930-gys19v.html
Esmond Million's Bung Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 Already passing the buck and blaming the fans. Amiens president Bernard Joannin, whose stadium opened in 1999, told a news conference that there had been no signs of any problems with the barrier and appeared to put the blame on hardcore ultra fans from Lille. "There was no problem with the barrier," Joannin said. "The police services warned us of about 200 ultras that were extremely irritable in the area reserved for the Lille supporters. They rushed in a disorderly fashion - more than 500 of them - on to this barrier which was in perfect condition."
generation1 Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 problem may be that the powers that be use this as an argument against safe standing
wendyredredrobin Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 If the barrier collapsed then it wasn't safe. End of. It doesn't matter how many Lille fans were behind it. It's customary now for everyone who is responsible for anything to blame someone else nowadays.
RumRed Posted October 1, 2017 Posted October 1, 2017 2 hours ago, wendyredredrobin said: If the barrier collapsed then it wasn't safe. End of. It doesn't matter how many Lille fans were behind it. It's customary now for everyone who is responsible for anything to blame someone else nowadays. Utter tosh, barriers should have an inbuilt failure tolerance to avoid fatal crushing incidents.
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