Their chairman at the time experienced quite a surprising number of similar accidents at his other businesses.
The Story of the Bradford Fire: ‘could any man really be as unlucky as Stafford Heginbotham?’
It was the last game for the old main stand and it would have been a blatantly obvious occurance had it been an inside job. I think an Australian chap admitted to dropping a lit match or fag on the vicinity of where the flames were first spotted. The BBC did a very moving program about it a year or so back.