article_snippet: Up to 2,000 fans entered Hillsborough stadium's Gate C, with many heading straight for a tunnel in front of them which David Duckenfield had not ordered to be closed.
article_snippet: them then continued to the already full central pens on the terrace which led to the fatal crushing.
article_snippet: David Duckenfield went on: 'Do you agree with the following, that people died in a crush in the central pens?'
article_snippet: David Duckenfield said: 'That if they had not been permitted to flow down the tunnel into those central pens that would not have occurred?'
article_snippet: The barrister continued: 'That closing the tunnel would have prevented that and therefore would have prevented the tragedy.'
article_snippet: David Duckenfield said: 'I can assure you, sir, I had no idea where fans would go from A to G (turnstiles) or the opening of Gate C.' Mr Greaney pointed out that David Duckenfield could have looked at a plan of the ground layout in the police control box before opening the gate at 2.52pm and that David Duckenfield could have consulted a fellow senior colleague with greater experience of the ground.