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Let me begin with a brief but in the circumstances, I think, highly relevant biographical note by way of introduction. I am, unusually in my experience, a ‘fan scholar’: a sports sociologist but also an active football club supporter. It turns out we are a surprisingly rare breed. More specifically, I have been an active Liverpool fan for more than 40 years and a season ticket holder since August 1994, the moment when the club’s Anfìeld stadium was eventually made all-seater, following rec- ommendations made in the Taylor Report (1990) after the Hillsborough stadium disaster of 1989. At that point a spate of new season tickets was made available to loyal, but irregular, Liverpool fans. Naturally, I bought one.
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Williams, J. (2014). Justice for the 96? Hillsborough, Politics and English Football. In: Hopkins, M., Treadwell, J. (eds) Football Hooliganism, Fan Behaviour and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137347978_13
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