Bradford City Valley Parade Fire: Other Fires Linked To Club Chair Stafford Heginbotham, New Book Claims

The Valley Parade Stadium fire that killed 56 people - widely believed to have been an accident - was one of nine fires at businesses linked with the club's then-chairman, an extraordinary new book has claimed.
Fire gutted the stadium in May, 1985, spreading quickly through the entire main stand, leaving many dead, despite police evacuating fans to the pitch. It is English football's second deadliest stadium disaster after Hillsborough.
The inquiry into the fire attributed it to a fan discarding a cigarette or a lit match.
But a book by survivor Martin Fletcher, who lost three generations of relatives in the fire, points the finger at Bradford City chairman Stafford Heginbotham, asking how someone could be as "unlucky" as him when there were at least eight other fires at businesses associated with him.
Fletcher told The Guardian he and his family would no longer "live with the myth" that the Valley Parade fire was an accident.



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