Hillsborough Disaster - 22 years ago today

[Gritt23]

All these years later, and it still sends a chill down my spine when I think about it.

Any of us who went regularly in those days would have been in crowds that got tight (home to Bristol Rovers, front of the North got pretty nasty) from time to time, so we all had some vague concept of what happened, and how helpless you would be in that situation.

A truly horrific day, and I can remember the events unfolding, so clearly in my mind.

RIP, one and all.

 

[El Presidente]

Don't buy The Sun.

 

[Gritt23]

I would imagine the sales of The Sun fall off dramatically on Merseyside at this time every year. It would claw it's way back up over the rest of the year, but it's an old wound that can never heal completely.

Even in 2006, Kelvin Mckenzie was unrepentant about what he published, saying.

"All I did wrong there was tell the truth...... I wasn't sorry then and I'm not sorry now because we told the truth."

Words cannot fully cover the contempt I have for that man.

 

[Tony Meolas Loan Spell]

I remember being at Elland Road that day (we lost 1-0).

The Leeds fans were cheering as the death toll was rising. Idiots.

 

[clippedgull]

All these years later, and it still sends a chill down my spine when I think about it.

Any of us who went regularly in those days would have been in crowds that got tight (home to Bristol Rovers, front of the North got pretty nasty) from time to time, so we all had some vague concept of what happened, and how helpless you would be in that situation.

A truly horrific day, and I can remember the events unfolding, so clearly in my mind.

RIP, one and all.

Blimey gone quick. I'm glad football stadiums are better regulated these days. That's not to say another tragedy will not happen, but there is a much less chance of it happening, especially in modern stadia.

 

[El Presidente]

Blimey gone quick. I'm glad football stadiums are better regulated these days. That's not to say another tragedy will not happen, but there is a much less chance, especially in modern stadia.

If there hadn't been fences there would have been no tragedy. But the government of the time considered football fans to be animals, and caged them accordingly. This is not letting South Yorkshire's finest off the hook either though. They were culpable of gross negligence.

 

[Seagull Steve]

The worst day in English football. RIP the 96.

 

[LA1972]

Was in the away end at Leicester with 8000 Chelsea fans, very crushed, and very dangerous. Lots of Liverpool fans on the train in the morning going to Sheffield as well as Jimmy Hill. Half time the tannoy reported 'hooligans had stopped the semi-final at Hilsboro'. Once the real information filtered through it was a very sombre journey home.

 

[bhaexpress]

I remember when we were forced to put up the fences at the Goldstone (following a Tottenham fan forced pitch invasion) thinking one day those fences will cause carnage. Had we had the fences up when the fans had to escape from the fighting many would have been hurt. It was a truly asinine idea to put the fences up in the first place. It was merely a cheap alternative to the hooligan problems for the authorities as the clubs had to pay for the fences.

 

[Martinf]

I remember being at Elland Road that day (we lost 1-0).

The Leeds fans were cheering as the death toll was rising. Idiots.

I was there at Elland Rd as well. Awful journey home.

 

[Aldo]

Never Forgotten.

Don't Buy The Sun.

 

[Aldo]

Memorial Live on LFCTV (Sky 434) for anyone interested

 

[Marc1901]

Did I hear that King kenny will be getting a knight hood?

 

[Aldo]

Did I hear that King kenny will be getting a knight hood?

I think so, and rightly so. His work and commitment to the aftermath is unexplainable.

 

[Julio]

I remember being at Elland Road that day (we lost 1-0).

The Leeds fans were cheering as the death toll was rising. Idiots.

I was at Elland Road that day, from the original announcements nobody knew the horror which was unfolding. The tannoy announced the game had been stoppped due to crowd trouble, which got the Leeds boys excited, they weren't cheering fatalities. That would be a step too far, even for Dirty Leeds. It was only after our game had finished that radio reports of the tragedy came through.

 

[Brighton Breezy]

My dad knows the guy who reffed it quite well.

 

[tonymgc]

Can't have been older than 6 when it happened but its one of those things like 9/11 or Princess Dianas death that you will always retain the mental images of it.

 

[Braders]

If there hadn't been fences there would have been no tragedy. But the government of the time considered football fans to be animals, and caged them accordingly. This is not letting South Yorkshire's finest off the hook either though. They were culpable of gross negligence.

exactly.

horrible , just horrible - I was too young to remember it but obviously due to the internet and many other media I've been able to have some understanding of the impact , nobody deserves to go to a game and not make it back YNWA

 

[CliveWalkerWingWizard]

Doesn't feel like 2 yrs ago that it was the 20th anniversary. A horrible time, a whole city in mourning - RIP. The sun was a disgrace.