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Post by Geoffro on Apr 15, 2004 15:26:52 GMT 1
May the 96 R.I.P
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Post by Bilbo on Apr 15, 2004 15:42:23 GMT 1
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Post by CuyBlue on Apr 15, 2004 15:42:30 GMT 1
Just read the articles in the Guardian - It's hard to believe that happened 15 years ago.
A truly tragic day
RIP
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Post by Theoneandonly on Apr 15, 2004 15:53:30 GMT 1
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2004 15:56:51 GMT 1
Go and type it into a search engine TOAO and read about it.
Such a sad day.
One of those 'Remember where you were' days. I was at my Grandad's watching Grandstand when the news started coming through.
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Post by Bilbo on Apr 15, 2004 15:57:37 GMT 1
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Post by SimAFCTU on Apr 15, 2004 15:58:40 GMT 1
I was two at the time and I remember my great grandad being completely stunned, being an Owls fan.
I did an essay on it in year 10, and the accounts you read when you research it in depth really do choke you sometimes.
RIP
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Post by Stevenelsonfanclub on Apr 15, 2004 16:42:51 GMT 1
I heard the news via the tannoy at Bucks head (Malcolm Holt) remember it as if it was yesterday. It was a beautiful suny day and Telford had just beaten Hyde in FAT semi-final at Bucks head to get to final. "Keeping the dream alive" was playing over the tannoy and Malcolm announced the incident i can rememebr his words now "At this point, it is thought that there may be some fatalities" those words still chill me to the bone. Only later did the full effects of this terrible tradegy become apparant. The way the families have been treated has been appalling and the lack of accountability of those dunderheads in charge on the day is beyond belief!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2004 19:07:45 GMT 1
Just seeing the videos of when it happened makes a cold chill run down my back.
RIP those 96
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Post by jamo on Apr 15, 2004 19:21:48 GMT 1
looking back now it hardly seem's credible that something so obscene could happen in an english football stadium. This truely was an horrendous event that shook this country to its core, whether you were a footie fan or not. Football has rivalry, can be tribal and in those days was often violent but every thing went out of the window after that, it didn't matter which team you followed you still felt the pain of it all because in different circumstances it could probablyhave been any of us. RIP scousers.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 15, 2004 19:37:55 GMT 1
On the 29th May 1985 Liverpool played Juventus (Italy) in the European Cup Final held at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium. I think 39 Juventus fans were killed there when there was a panic in the ground as fans started to fight each other.
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Post by Geoffro on Apr 15, 2004 21:24:27 GMT 1
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Post by BlueinSY2 on Apr 15, 2004 22:02:13 GMT 1
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Post by cuzz whitchurch on Apr 15, 2004 22:35:35 GMT 1
i know exactly where i was at that presice moment . as an ex man.ure fan i was in the stretford end watching the mancsat home to derby(man u 0- derby 2 ,paul goddard and dean saunders),when the announcement came over the tannoy the derby fans all cheered like hell,being local rivals, i would like to think that every one of them now feelsphysically sick at those images -i know i do .i had a lot of mates in the liverpool end that day and luckily they all came home.having lost a loved one is a real barsteward as i lost my mum in january -enjoy it while you can folks-its only a short ride!
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Post by blueandamber on Apr 15, 2004 22:48:33 GMT 1
I didn't actually know what Hillsborough was until a couple of days ago when I heard some people talking about it, then went to find out more about it.
God bless those famillies who have suffered and the 96 people who lost their lives.
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Post by Stue_P on Apr 15, 2004 23:07:26 GMT 1
RIP to the 96
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Post by gregtheshrew on Apr 15, 2004 23:40:22 GMT 1
I was down the meadow listening to the radio.was desperate to find out about the other semi between Everton and Norwich then the news started coming through and nothing mattered.
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Post by harmerhillshrew on Apr 16, 2004 0:05:40 GMT 1
It took me along time to ever go down the Meadow again.
It was a culmination of Hillsborough, Hysel and the fire at Bradford.
Next time we have a big game at the Meadow and it is sold out and you can not get a ticket and people say well there was loads of room by us, think Hillsborough.
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Post by Nomis on Apr 16, 2004 0:13:47 GMT 1
It happened a couple weeks before my 9th birthday, i remember the day it was warm sunny day and i was probably messing about outside so missed the first few minutes but when i came in to watch the tv i just saw ambulances on the pitch and the advertising hoardings used as stretchers. I also remember the photos from the papers and tv reports the following days and this girls face pressed aginst a fence, and people in the terrace above the leppings lane end pulling people out from where the crushing happened. Horrendous scenes that do put things in perspective
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Post by Blues in Crewe on Apr 16, 2004 0:34:47 GMT 1
I remember it clearly sat in front of the TV, as it was my brothers 7th birthday and he was mad on Liverpool
RIP
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Post by timmy gallon on Apr 16, 2004 1:28:02 GMT 1
Town played Oxford that day in a 1 - 1 draw. It was a lovely spring day down the Meadow and we should have won the game as we had a perfectly good Mickey Brown goal disallowed.
On leaving the game the Meadow announcer came on and said the Hillsborough game had been abandoned and that 3 people were dead follwoing crowd trouble. Everybody was shocked at this, didnt find out the full extent till about 40 minutes later when i got home and my dad was in front of the tv saying "have a look at this"
Police were in the main to blame despite trying to blame trouble makers. As the Manics sung "South Yorkshire Mass Murderers"
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Post by xshrew on Apr 16, 2004 1:29:55 GMT 1
I remember the reaction of sections of the press ...especially the sun which I will never buy again ...who reported that the liverpool fans were low life thieving drunken scum who had what was coming to them. To my knowledge they have never apologised for these disgusting lies. There was supposed to be a national boycott of the sun today to commemorate the 15th aniversery - if you forgot make it tomorrow.
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Post by SimAFCTU on Apr 16, 2004 1:33:48 GMT 1
Indeed I did. I usually buy the Sun at work but after hearing about the boycott I bought the Mirror instead!
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Post by Stevenelsonfanclub on Apr 16, 2004 9:47:43 GMT 1
Why does that not surprise me about the SUN??
Boycott it all the time, its garbage!
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Post by xshrew on Apr 16, 2004 18:53:27 GMT 1
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Post by tom_leather on Apr 16, 2004 20:14:16 GMT 1
Justifiably, the sun lost a heck of a lot of sales in Merseyside since then. I have never bought and never will due to the lies they said about Hillsborough.
There is an excellent book 'Hillsborough The Truth' by Phil Scraton which goes into detail about what happened, who was to blame etc.
Justice for the 96
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