Father of son killed in Hillsborough disaster warns of more deaths - unless UEFA changes

Jun 7 2007 Liverpool Daily Post

A CAMPAIGNER whose son was killed in the Hillsborough disaster has warned another fan could die if UEFA does not change.

Phil Hammond, of the Hillsborough Support Group, say it is vital that the football governing body improves its organ-isation of matches.

Mr Hammond, who lost a son in the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, was at the game in Greece and while he accepts there were problems caused by fans he said UEFA need to sort out their own problems. He said: “The faults at the Athens final were 10% the fault of Liverpool fans, 90% the fault of UEFA.

“UEFA should get their house in order, people are going to die at their football matches, I can say that as someone who has lost someone and someone who went through what happened in Athens.

“If something like that happens again, someone is going to die at one of their games.

“He (Gaillard) is claiming Liverpool fans did this, that and the other, but not what UEFA did wrong. Nobody will now believe anything he says, they should get rid of him as a spokesman.

“He should have kept his mouth shut until they found out what really happened.”