Burnden Park Disaster
On March 9, 1946, a crowd of 85,000 people was gathered at the Burnden Park football stadium in Lancashire, England. This stadium was over-capacity so much that the crowd led all the way back to the parking lot. Just before the game started, the crowd spilled out onto the soccer pitch. The game had to be paused while personnel tried to get people off of the field. There were so many people that two of the barriers collapsed, crushing many people underneath. The 33 dead bodies were removed from the field, and lined up near the railway station. Despite this awful tragedy happening, they continued with the game anyway. A player named Stanley Matthews later said that he was disgusted that they allowed the game to continue like nothing had happened. Because of this disaster, there were more strict rules limiting just 10,000 people into the stadium.