Grobbelaar' 'it wasn't us gov'.
“Looking back and knowing what I do, I believe the people who started the initial surge at Heysel were not Liverpool fans,” he says.
“I know for a fact that there were three factions on the ferry over to Belgium who were intent on causing trouble – and they weren’t Liverpool supporters.
“I know this because my mother was on a boat that sailed from Folkestone, along with my stepfather, my mother-in-law and my father-in-law.
“They saw people handing out pamphlets saying ‘this will be Liverpool’s last European game’, so as far as I’m concerned the trouble was premeditated by people with no connection to our club.
“The people who planned the whole thing then got youngsters from Liverpool caught up in the trouble.
“I think the authorities knew that because UEFA didn’t just ban Liverpool, they banned every single English club.
“Why? I think it was because they knew that the people who started the trouble were not Liverpool supporters.”
Odd that no leaflets were ever produced.