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Thirty-three people were killed in a human crush at Burnden Park, a football stadium in Bolton, England.
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Burnden Park disaster
1946 crowd crush during a football game in Lancashire, England
The Burnden Park disaster was a crowd crush that occurred on 9 March 1946 at Burnden Park football stadium, then the home of Bolton Wanderers. The crush resulted in the deaths of 33 people and injuries to hundreds of Bolton fans. It was the deadliest stadium-related disaster in…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Burnden Park
Former football stadium in Bolton. UK
Burnden Park was the home of English football club Bolton Wanderers, who played home games there between 1895 and 1997. As well as hosting the 1901 FA Cup final replay, in 1946 it was the scene of one of the worst disasters in English football. The stadium was depicted in a 1953…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
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Team sport played with a ball
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bolton
Town in Greater Manchester, England
Bolton is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider borough, of which Bolton is the administrative…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)