The Hillsborough diaster happens in 1981

It was widely reported last week on the 20th annsivery of the tragic death of 96 Liverpool fans at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Notts Forest at Hillsborough, Sheffield, that it had almost happended eight years before at the 1981 semi-final between Tottenham and Wolves. Several Tottenham fans where injured in a crush on those same terraces but it was not reported at the time, and a major crush was just prevented.
From a football and social point of view he would have changed the course of football in this country. Of course Tottenham and not Liverpool would be linked to the Hillsborough.
Also please do not take this post as an attack on those Liverpool fans that dies, it isn't I was 14 when it happened the same age of many of the fans that died that day. I am looking at this purely from the changes such a event would have had on the game in 1981, and what changes would have happended.
 
Well the main result was the abolition of standing and the introduction of all seater stadia. Technologically this would have to be done 10 years early. A lot of clubs got into financial trouble building new grounds, others ended up making a big success out of their new grounds. So I guess you could end up with different teams rising to the fore? You'd have to look into which clubs were best off and had the biggest crowds at the time.

Also presumably instead of the majority of top flight British clubs being in stadiums less than 20 years old, it'd now be almost 30 years, so some would be looking at having to rebuild that aren't currently.
 
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