LETTER : Hillsborough is not political Hillsborough and Thatcher
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Your support makes all the difference.I never thought I'd stick up for Margaret Thatcher, but Stan Hey goes too far when he writes of the worsening lot of supporters that "Aided by a prime minister whose cultural loathing for football was allied to her rabid instincts for the deregulation of public life, this process inevitably culminated in the sickening trio of tragedies: Bradford, Heysel and Hillsborough" ("Hillsborough's debt is still outstanding", Sport, 8 December).
Many fans weren't exactly enthusiastic for the Taylor Report's recommendation of all-seater stadiums.
Tim Mickleburgh
Grimsby, Lincs
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