Hillsborough 25 Years on

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They say people remember where they were when JFK was shot, Diana was married, 9/11 happened. I remember exactly where I was when the Hillsborough Disaster took place.

Aged 11, I had been dragged on a shopping trip by my grandparents and was in The House Of Holland, a curious place which seemed to sell every household item under the sun and located in Southport, a small seaside town north of our home in Liverpool. They had the match on the in store radio and I managed to find a corner to listen to it undisturbed, or so I thought. The horrors that have unfolded as the game kicked off, and have dragged on over the last 25 years, are incomprehenisble to me and most people.

When I got older, I became a regular match goer and I forged a great friendship with bunch of people who are now amongst my best friends. I have a lot of friends who attended the game, two friends who lost siblings at the game and when this day comes around every year it's always a time for contemplation and remembrance for me and my pals.

Football does that; it's the mix of passion and raw emotions that bring people together. And those same emotions and passion have been channeled by some tireless campaigners in to something great; the Hillsborough Justice Campaign which will hopefully bring some closure to those that were affected on that tragic day and the Hillsborough Families Support group which has offered a supportive ear and solidarity.

There are some truly inspirational people behind the campaigns and we could all take a lot from them. I do hope they get the justice they deserve.

You'll never walk alone.
 
I was sat outside a customers house in Formby, Whilst my dad was fixing their TV.
I was listening to the match on the radio. I remember it being a nice sunny day and I was watching the planes flying around woodvale.

Then I remember a commentator saying that something was going on as a little blond boy with a ripped liverpool shirt was being lifted over the fences.

It wasn't until Monday we were told a school friend had lost his life


RIP Kev Williams
JFT96
 
Just watched Martinez's brilliant speech, According to some of the comments on the video skynews tried to censor some of it, No idea what tho possibly because there is an inquest going on so probably a legal thing.

 
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I was sat outside a customers house in Formby, Whilst my dad was fixing their TV.
I was listening to the match on the radio. I remember it being a nice sunny day and I was watching the planes flying around woodvale.

Then I remember a commentator saying that something was going on as a little blond boy with a ripped liverpool shirt was being lifted over the fences.

It wasn't until Monday we were told a school friend had lost his life


RIP Kev Williams
JFT96
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I worked with Anne in a pub in Formby. Small world!
 
I watched Martinez's speech on the BBC News channel and it seemed to be in full. It was a class speech from a class man.

The Liverpool FC channel only showed the first half hour for some reason (I think I heard that it's meant to be in full at 9pm tonight), BBC News cut away from the service to the guy outside at one point, and Sky News seemed to have a few random issues. All in all, the coverage was pretty shoddy, but I think I saw it in its entirety across the channels.

In tears for much of it.
 
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Why LiverpoolFc TV decided to cut the good bits out I don't know.:(
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They said it was something to do with broadcasting rights, but I suspect it was more to do with being worried about prejudicing the fresh inquests and them not being equipped to cut away quickly and smoothly enough in case one of the speakers said something a bit too close to the bone (I could almost picture the BBC producers biting their bottom lips when Margaret Aspinall was speaking, as you could see she was winding herself up to unload both barrels).

Obviously the BBC and Sky would have been better equipped to move away quickly should someone say something, and both would be seen to be in a more neutral position than LFC.
 
I'm too young to remember where I was that day. My earliest memory of Hillsborough is my first game at Anfield which happened to be the last day of the standing Kop. I remember having my picture taken in front of the Hillsborough memorial and my Dad explaining that they had to redevelop the stand because of what happened at Hillsborough. I also remember him telling me that Norwich were going to let us equalise in the 2nd half as a gesture. They didn't :(

Been out all day and only just getting round to watching the memorial service. Class speech from Martinez. I never really disliked Everton but I can imagine it's much harder for anybody to do with him there.
 
Wasn't at the game as a few days before there had been a serious accident which has left my then fiancée's brother in a coma, we were at the hospital when all the news broke, my brother and a few friends were there but in the Forest end, I went to the Old Trafford replay
 
I was only a teenager at the time of it happening. I remember vividly it unfolding on BBC on Grandstand. At the time it wasn't the 24 hour news world we live in and if I am not mistaken there was a few reports later in the evening then the true scale of what had happened only started to come through on the 9.00 news.

It's events like these that really puts club rivalry to one side. No fan should goto a game wondering if its 50/50 they will come home. This could have happened to any club and given how the police handled the events on the day, you would suspect at any ground. Football fans back in the day were treated like animals.

Massive respect to the families for keep fighting to clear the good names of their lost relatives
 
I was ******** in a nappy at the time.

Edit: azza that is brilliant! Great show of football fans.
 
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ESPN have done a 30 for 30 about Hillsborough. It's on YouTube, but if you can get it another way and watch please do. It's incredible.

 
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