The 96 Who'll Never Walk Alone

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The Justice Bell by Dave Kirby

A schoolboy holds a leather ball
in a photograph on a bedroom wall
the bed is made, the curtains drawn
as silence greets the break of dawn.

The dusk gives way to morning light
revealing shades of red and white
which hang from posters locked in time
of the Liverpool team of 89.

Upon a pale white quilted sheet
a football kit is folded neat
with a yellow scarf, trimmed with red
and some football boots beside the bed.

In hope, the room awakes each day
to see the boy who used to play
but once again it wakes alone
for this young boy's not coming home.

Outside, the springtime fills the air
the smell of life is everywhere
viola's bloom and tulips grow
while daffodils dance heel to toe.

These should have been such special times
for a boy who'd now be in his prime
but spring forever turned to grey
in the Yorkshire sun, one April day.

The clock was locked on 3.06
as sun shone down upon the pitch
lighting up faces etched in pain
as death descended on Leppings Lane.

Between the bars an arm is raised
amidst a human tidal wave
a young hand yearning to be saved
grows weak inside this deathly cage.

A boy not barely in his teens
is lost amongst the dying screams
a body too frail to fight for breath
is drowned below a sea of death

His outstretched arm then disappears
to signal fourteen years of tears
as 96 souls of those who fell
await the toll of the justice bell.

Ever since that disastrous day
a vision often comes my way
I reach and grab his outstretched arm
then pull him up away from harm.

We both embrace with tear-filled eyes
I then awake to realise
its the same old dream I have each week
as I quietly cry myself to sleep.

On April the 15th every year
when all is calm and skies are clear
beneath a glowing Yorkshire moon
a lone scots piper plays a tune.

The tune rings out the justice cause
then blows due west across the moors
it passes by the eternal flame
then engulfs a young boy's picture frame.

His room is as it was that day
for twenty years its stayed that way
untouched and frozen forever in time
since that tragic day in 89.

And as it plays its haunting sound
tears are heard from miles around
they're tears from families of those who fell
awaiting the toll of the justice bell.
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http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/drilldown/N163717090415-0017.htm

RIP YNWA :(

P.S. For those who want to but can't attent the service tomorrow; LFC TV (Sky Channel 434) is free all day and will be broadcasting the memorial service at 2.30pm.
 
Terrible disater that could have been stopped but it changed English football as a spectator sport forever, what happened after it was shameful from the police and government and The Sun newspaper.

I remember being at a concert and being at the front and people surged forward and the concert had to be stopped for a couple of minutes, it was very scary being forced against a barrier and in between people, you think you are strong enough to stop it but you just get crushed, people move in waves and if you fall you cant get back up.

RIP
 
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Zip said:
So what happend?
I dont think ive heard of this before?
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Both girls were victims of the Hillsborough disaster on April 15, 1989, the life squeezed out of them in crammed spectator pens. Their parents, watching from different parts of the football ground, were distraught but unable to reach them. Sarah was 19 and Vicky 15. On a beautiful spring day a family of four travelled from their home in North London to a football match and then, in a few minutes, that family was halved.


How do you live after that? How can you face each new day when you have lost both of your children, when you know how it feels to suck the vomit out of your dying daughter's throat, how it feels to see your kids zipped, still warm, inside body-bags, when your own future as a parent has been obliterated, when no one has even properly said sorry? Trevor, the girls' father, says that, to this day, not one police officer has lost a day's wages over Hillsborough. The lack of justice for the 96 who died remains one of Britain's festering sores.

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/mediawatch/drilldown/MW14548090415-0042.htm
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_Disaster
 
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It's somewhat disturbing the number of people who turned their attention to Hillsoborough 'a second on 89 minutes' tonight. I'm probably over thinking it but I'd be somewhat insulted in all honesty.

More importantly, RIP & justice for the 96 and their families. I've met some people involved with it being in the city, each have their own terrible stories.

(Do we need another thread btw?)
 
No one was ever held accountable aswell. More evidence for Police covering up their dirty work.
 
a sad day in football - in fact a sad day full stop when this happened.

My brother was meant to be at the match that day, and even in the same stand, lucky he missed the coach and so couldn't go.

I will have a look for my old pictures of the flowers laid in the ground, and post them up.
 
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