Since then, it has been further re-developed and, today, Valley Parade is a modern 25,136 all-seater stadium, which is virtually unrecognisable from how it was at the time of the disaster, save for the original clubhouse that still stands beside the main stand, and the flank support wall that runs down the Hollywell Ash Lane at the "Bradford End". His most recent painting is a powerful image; two fans in Bradford and Lincoln City kits, surrounded by 54 other figures. There was some kind of disturbance near the edge of a block of seats in the G section of the main stand. An ancient wooden spectator stand and a dropped cigarette - the ingredients for one of Britain's deadliest soccer tragedies. His father Tony went back the following day and said: "I wondered how anybody had got out alive, but I also began to feel guilty that I had got out when so many hadn't." He was completely on fire and it looked as though he simply did not know what had happened to him.'. Bradford City stadium fire: Remembering the 56 who died at Valley - IBT [6], The 198485 season had been one of Bradford City's most successful seasons, ending with City clinching the championship title courtesy of a 20 victory against Bolton Wanderers in the penultimate game of the season. She was hysterical and trying to find her three children. I saw a group of people around the smoke laughing. [10] One eyewitness, Geoffrey Mitchell, told the BBC: "It spread like a flash. A few minutes later, he felt a thump on his back from his father, who told him to run. When the game began there was no way out for them, except by going on to the pitch. Others ran forward to try to clamber over a fence and a small wall on to the pitch. "I've always loved art but I owned businesses in construction so I've never had the time or a chance to follow it up," he says. At the final home match against Barnsley at the end of April, Bradford City fans collected more than 8,000 in a bucket collection. For the 30th anniversary of the fire a new version of "You'll Never Walk Alone" was recorded at Voltage Studios in Bradford. "I feel such information should be made public and people should look at those facts, then make their mind up on those facts. Footage of the accident at this point shows levels of confusion among the spectatorswhile many were trying to escape or to cross the pitch to the relative safety of the neighbouring stands, other spectators were observed cheering or waving to the still-rolling pitchside cameras. "Me and my dad eventually got out safely but it was a bit of a struggle at one point because the walls getting down to the pitch level were quite high I didn't get a growth spurt until I was 16 or 17.". [40] Matthew Wildman was 17 at the time and needed crutches to walk because of rheumatoid arthritis. "I was operated on every other day because I had so many burns and so many areas to work on. As a result, Bradford-born captain Peter Jackson was presented with the league trophy before the final game of the season with mid-table Lincoln City at Valley Parade on 11 May 1985. A minute later he saw a small plume of smoke so he poured his coffee on it and so did his son.

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