There is an interesting piece in the Daily Record today.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/sc...6908-20418966/
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Originally Posted by Daily Record
The trigger had been a small number of "fans" who goaded the police by going eye-to-eye with them or chucking a bottle.
And it was remarkable that almost none of the ringleaders wore club colours or spoke with a Scottish accent. There were, however, many English and Northern Irish accents.
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But there were too many people. Even at that stage there were too many, causing bottlenecks and potential for crushing.
It struck me police had badly misjudged numbers of fans. There seemed to be double the anticipated 100,000.
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Manchester City Council had told us they were used to huge sporting events and could cope.
Fan zones with a combined capacity of 22,000 just didn't stack up.
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