I am at a loss for words.
How do we explain that in 2017 football fans are still going to a match and losing their lives there?
With all the advances we have in technology, with all the innovations that are constantly being rolled out, how is it possible that fan safety is still not guaranteed?
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After Saturday's Soweto derby at Soccer City, we all know by now that two people died in a pre-match stampede.
With all the security, on derby day especially, how was this allowed to happen?
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Apparently fake tickets are to blame and from fan accounts of events we are hearing people tried to force their way in when the tickets couldn’t scan.
There are so many inquest documents opened now and everyone seems to be investigating.
But the truth is these things happen so quickly that before you know it the situation has escalated and become dangerous so we could never know the full story.
I think back to the pitch invasion at Loftus Versfeld in the Mamelodi Sundowns v Orlando Pirates match this February.
An ocean of angry fans just descended on the pitch and they were intent on destruction and all we could do in that situation was run.
But surely that game is a warning sign? As if we needed a warning sign after what happened at Ellis Park all those years ago.
This simply means we haven’t learned.
Our security system probably needs to be looked at again because when it was the World Cup you couldn’t even get to the stadium perimeter without a ticket and maybe we need to start doing that again.
Because its people’s lives we’re talking about.
Maybe, as crazy as this sounds, that isn’t being taken seriously enough.
When you hear event organisers talking about targets being reached in an attempt to somehow put a positive spin on an event that claimed two lives, you wonder if the fans are just numbers after all.
If they weren’t, maybe the game would have been called off as it probably should have been out of respect.
But the game went ahead anyway, before the news filtered through at half time.