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Prior to the game was a club celebration, when the home team was presented with the Third Division title trophy, a time that should have been a happy and fitting end to their season.
The game had got under way when an horrific fire started around 3.40 pm, probably ignited by cigarette ends that had dropped through floor boards, on to litter under the main wooden stand. The fire took hold rapidly and chaos ensued.
As you can see the fire was horrific.
It didn't take long for the football authorities to arrange fund raising to help those who suffered initially and then continued to raise money for associated charities.
The full England 1966 starting 11 made themselves available and Terry Cherry, born in Huddersfield and on City's books, was on the subs' bench.
The Germans, led by Franz Beckenbauer, also supported the occasion with an impressive attendance.
The score ended 6-4 to England with Geoff Hurst remarkably (again) scoring a hat trick, Alan Ball 2 and Martin Peters one.
On 12th December 1986 another commemorative match between Bradford City and an England XI was played in front of a 15,000 crowd which Bradford won 2-1, also raising money for the fund.
Bradford City continues to support the burns unit at the city's Royal Infirmary. The crowds rendering of "You'll Never Walk Alone" from "Carousel" reached No.1 in the charts and itself raised money for the charity. It was remade 30 years later with a host of celebrities in a special choir.
25 years after the event, the University of Bradford had established a major skin research unit and a plastic surgery and burns unit, (the Bradford Sling, a specialised burns devise that applies healing pressure to needed areas of skin, was developed from the various treatments, showing that some good has come out of the ashes of the Bradford Stand.
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