Taylor Report

Because I suppose it's off the back of the Hillsborough disaster, wasn't it? There was a transformation of all the grounds, so they had to be all-seaters.

So you have the Taylor Report, and so all the major stadiums were all-seaters.

And then along came Euro 96, and so they were looking for big stadiums for that, so... old trafford built the new north stand in 95 i think so that made it a 56 000 and then by the late 90s old trafford the old theater of dreams really started to take shape they added tiers to the east and west stands and made it 67 000 by the end of the decade right

Wow, okay.

Yes.

The Hillsborough '89, and the Taylor Report, and the All-Seater Stadiums which followed that.

So you sort of the, like, late '80s to early '90s is when all these balls started rolling.

But Silvio Berlusconi, I think in 1987 that he took charge of AC Milan, and Milan became- AC Milan became this sort of political vehicle for him.

They just did not reinvest in the club, the fabric of the club and eventually It caught up with them.

And the catalyst for Celtic, of course, back in the day, pre-Fergus, was the Taylor Report, all the hooliganism, the Heisel thing with the Liverpool fans, and the fires.

There was a big fire in Bradford, and that compelled the government at the time, I think it was Margaret Thatcher, to say that by 1994, all football stadiums had to be... all seated and of course when 1994 started guess what we weren't all seated because the board had failed to move with the times so that was a 30 30 odd years ago 30 years later that stadium that we were in is pretty jaded It might have been pretty spanking, you know, at the turn of the century.

But I suggest that the Celtic board is of old, conservative.

So at the start of the decade it was, you know, you could stand on there, and I would go there and stand on the terraces, and that was great fun.

And then it got knocked down, and they made it like very big stand with seats, uh, after the Taylor Report.

Again, great atmosphere.

Always seemed full.

Yes.

Was it part of the Taylor Report that came before that?

I think it's before that, you know.

Because it

Or was it? I don't know.

Maybe it wasn't.

So in Scotland it was 1980, which, you know, you can... 85, so it's pre the Taylor Report.

So