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Fifty-Six - The Story of the Bradford Fire (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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Fifty-Six - The Story of the Bradford Fire (Paperback, Export/Airside)
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Loot Price R455
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Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year award: the
first in-depth look at the 1985 Bradford fire - from someone who
survived and went on to unveil the shocking truth behind the
disaster 'Read his book and weep' The Times 'Incredibly moving and
brilliantly understated... lays bare the culture of
institutionalised neglect that all English football-goers in the
80s came to expect, which by the end of the decade would claim more
than 150 lives' Mirror On May 11 1985, fifty-six people died in a
devastating fire at Bradford City's old Valley Parade ground. It
was truly horrific, a startling story - and wholly avoidable - but
it had only the briefest of inquiries, and it seemed its lessons
were not learned. Twelve-year-old Martin Fletcher was at Valley
Parade that day, celebrating Bradford's promotion to the second
flight, with his dad, brother, uncle and grandfather. Martin was
the only one of them to survive the fire - the biggest loss
suffered by a single family in any British football disaster. In
later years, Martin devoted himself to extensively investigating
how the disaster was caused, its culture of institutional neglect
and the government's general indifference towards football fans'
safety at the time. This book tells the gripping, extraordinary
in-depth story of a boy's unthinkable loss following a spring
afternoon at a football match, of how fifty-six people could die at
a game, and of the truths he unearthed as an adult. This is the
story - thirty years on - of the disaster football has never
properly acknowledged.
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