It just seems inconceivable that one man could be so unlucky.If true it would suggest either massive incompetence at best on behalf of the police, or something much more sinister. It's unbelievable that they never investigated a man who suffered 8 fires in his businesses.
The one thing that does make me doubt it is all his other building were empty at the time of the fires, so if they were deliberate, the person that started them obviously had at least some concern about people getting hurt. You would think then that if the Valley Parade fire was deliberate, it would have been done when the ground was empty?
[video=youtube;v6iTSAwGo1Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6iTSAwGo1Y[/video]
For those of you who are too young to remember this tradegy, please watch. It took approximately SIX minutes to destroy the stand. A terrible day for all concerned. RIP to those who lost their lives.
I knew about it, saw pictures, but never saw quite how bad it was. Just shows how quickly fire spreads although I can imagine it wasn't the most fire proof stand in the world - the guardian article confirms that. The footage at 6:00 minutes is quite surreal.
I can imagine someone burning a factory or something down for insurance but a football stand during a match? Surely if he wanted it burnt down a mysterious fire during the close season would have done the trick.
[video=youtube;v6iTSAwGo1Y]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6iTSAwGo1Y[/video]
For those of you who are too young to remember this tradegy, please watch. It took approximately SIX minutes to destroy the stand. A terrible day for all concerned. RIP to those who lost their lives.
What on earth were all those people on the pitch cheering and jumping about for?
Even if you consider they might not have known people were dying in there, surely one of your stands burning down is nothing to celebrate?
One thing I find interesting with the Valley Parade fire, its clear, that had there been fences in front of that stand, the death toll would have been easily in the hundreds, if not thousands. So why on earth were fences still up years after this? Surely someone must have looked at this and thought "good job there wasn't a fence here, best take them down at every ground in case it happens again".
Good point regarding fences.
Some of those that did die went down to exits that were locked shut. You can only imagine what a shockingly awful death they had.
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