Fan violence has been a problem for a number of sporting events. On May 29th 1985 soccer fans around the the world were stunned by the Heysel stadium disaster. On this day Liverpool was defending the European Champions Cup, Liverpool had won the previous year. The European champions cup in 1985 was held between Liverpool and Juventus. During the match tensions started to boil over and the Liverpool fans started throwing objects at the Juventus fans, the fans were separated by a chain link fence which did not do much. Around seven pm the trouble started with fans from the loverpool side braking through the fence that had a line of cops guarding it. The Jeventus fans tried to flee by climbing over wall Z in the stadium, too many fans tried to climb it and the wall collapsed. At the end of the day thirty-nine people died and 600 hundred people were injured. This disaster could have been prevented, the first thing that could have been done was to have better security. A line of cops and a fence was not going to prevent something like this from happening . Heysel stadium was also not in the condition to host an event like this. Heysel stadium had not been renovated in some time, the fifty fiver year old stadium was literally falling apart. The Union of European Football Associations did an inspection of the building, the problem with the inspection was that it only lasted thirty minutes. With the amount of people that showed up the stadium could not handle that amount of people. Security has improved since then but it should have never come to this. Fan violence like this should not belong in the sports world. With the lack of security and building maintenance at the event this type of tragedy was allowed to happen.
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