Questions remain after Wigan jaunt

AS WE headed north, amidst the drizzle of a miserable Easter Saturday morning, my suggestion from the back of the motor that the weather was likely to improve, was greeted with cynicism by my fellow Gooners up front. Wigan is a hop and a skip from Manchester and as we all know “it always rains in Manchester”.

However as I awoke from a snooze, to find we were motoring past Stoke’s Britannia Stadium, it was all bright sunshine. With my radio tuned to the coverage of the emotional scenes at Anfield’s early kick-off, it was as though the sun itself had doffed its hat, in remembrance of that fateful day.

Without the hyperbole that followed Hillsborough, we might’ve witnessed a more gradual, benign transformation, something along the lines of the Bundesliga, where standing terraces aren’t seen as exclusive domain of the devil’s spawn. The terraces were not responsible for all those deaths and some will argue it’s no less dangerous to force fans who insist on standing, into the cramped confines of certain all-seater stadia.