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Article: Inside football: The business that boomed in wake of Hillsborough Hillsborough's Leppings Lane end, where the fatal crush occurred, was Pel's first seating job. The company competed fiercely on price with manufacturers who had had little past success with football clubs
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- February 10, 2000
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ONE OF English football's greatest ironies is the extent to which
the fortunes of the top clubs and their chairmen have been founded on
the game's greatest collective failure, the 1989 Hillsborough
disaster in which 96 supporters died.
The Taylor Report which followed was a searing indictment of the
administrators who allowed football to sink so low. Yet its
recommendation that public money, via pounds 160m in Football Trust
grants, should help fund the compulsory seating of grounds led to the
enrichment of many of those people.
It has now emerged that some senior football figures, and a club
director, Mike McGinnity, then on the board at West Bromwich Albion