unaware of the crisis, watching the game. The football continued to joyous shouting and singing round the rest of the ground while those crushed and trapped slowly expired.
80. When Mr Greenwood's signals to move back proved fruitless, he tried to radio for the match to be stopped. At first, his message was not received by control, so he signalled with his arms towards the control box. Mr Duckenfield sent Mr Murray down from the box to have the match stopped via the linesman, the agreed emergency drill. Before he could do so, Mr Greenwood ran over the pitch to the referee who stopped the game. It was 5½ minutes past 3.
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