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Hillsbourgh 20 year anniversary

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just wondering where was everyone when this tragedy happened??? i was only 7 but i can remember my dad welling up and telling me something terrible happened at a football match!!!
dont know but do remember where i was when liverpool fans killed the juventus fans at helsey ,and had english clubs banned from european football for five years i think .it was a pity so many had to die to make football grounds safe following hillbourough and bradford .
i was almost 21 back then,,, n as far as i can remember i was watching it unfold on tv,,,,remember looking at cops stopping fans ripping up hording thinking they were rioting,,,, those poor people and there familys will never be forgotten... ps not a liverpool fan,, a celtic man i am
I was sitting at home on my own aged 13 while the folks and younger brothers were in town. They came home around and, back then, we didn't live in an instant media world and they were oblivious to it all. Took me a good 10 minutes to get across that it was a tragedy unfolding and not a riot. I watched it all in stunned amazement. When the cameras panned around to the stand when the game kicked off my memory flashed back to Heysel. I remember watching that 4 years beforehand in utter bewilderment. But within a few minutes, even as the ref called the players off, it was plain to see that this was no riot. I'm a Liverpool fan and to this day find it all very emotive. In the days that followed, I was always moved by the community spirit that existed on Merseyside as both Red & Blue came together. I find it abominable that, to this day, nobody has ever been held accountable for what was allowed to happen. Whatever team people support, I would hope that they don't let long standing levels of bitterness that exist between clubs stand in the way of acknowledging that this was a disaster that had a huge & long lasting impact on a city. A fact that can be seen in the images today in Liverpool, Sheffield & Nottingham.
toffee fan. saw it as a kid and thought holy fcuk. well said there cumtemptus. in tradegy there should be no colour. and there wasnt at the time.
The 15th of April is a bad Day. The RMS Titanic Sunk in the early hours of the 15th of April 1912 with the deaths of over 1500 people. I remember the Liverpool tragedy well standing in my living room hardly able to believe what i was seeing. Hard to believe 20 years already.