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We left soon as we could and on the way out I walked past four Chelsea fans rolling up a Union Jack……I know they were Chelsea fans cos they were skins ( you just didn’t get Scousers dressed like that in 85)..and the flag had Chelsea on it….this like the bizarre Standard Liege Skin head fans present, isn’t the figment of my imagination or warped memory. I'm not linking them to what happened ,but it was strange.

As to whether individuals were brought to account, 27 arrests were made on suspicion of manslaughter and 26 men were charged. (These, incidentally, do not tend to be described as Liverpool supporters – in part because of claims at the time from John Smith, the club’s chairman, and two Merseyside councilors that National Front members from London had been responsible. There are many sensitive issues here, but let us not pussyfoot over this one. As Tony Evans, football editor of The Times and author of Far Foreign Land, a brilliant book about his experiences following Liverpool at Heysel and all over Europe, put it: “It was a red herring. Hooligans from the far right would not have been welcome.”)