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Ironically up towards the back - row 24ish - we had plenty of empty seats, I surmise due to these very reasons.

I don’t have any complaints with how the Police handled the situation outside the ground: it was perfectly obvious that the horse blockade was to prevent the overwhelming of the turnstiles and as has been said above, if folk concentrated on finding their seats instead of crowding the concourse singing songs about Philip Schofield (at a Hibs game - WTF?) there would be no bottleneck.

The horseback Police were pretty reasonable all round, but the abuse and antagonism generated a group of clearly antagonised 20-somethings outside, who I suspect had not simply been drinking alcohol pre-match, led to a fairly hostile atmosphere which was entirely unnecessary.
Got to disagree in some respects. I was at the front when they closed the horses together and was then constantly pushed towards them by impatient fans behind. There were thankfully few but still some kids near me also.

Surely a similar system with barriers could have been deployed instead.

I don't particularly like horses mind you so maybe I'm overreacting.