Hillsborough Disaster
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I remember the day very well.. I was 21.
The game if I recall wasn't on the TV, it was a traditional Saturday Afternoon game. I remember the listening on the radio... Then later as it was shown on the NEWS, the advertising boards, the faces, the horror.
RIP those 96..
Football changed for the good almost immediately but at the cost of not just the 96 who died at Hillsborough but those that died in the years before due to negligence of the game. I can now take my children to football, knowing that something like this will never (hopefully) happen again.
The game if I recall wasn't on the TV, it was a traditional Saturday Afternoon game. I remember the listening on the radio... Then later as it was shown on the NEWS, the advertising boards, the faces, the horror.
RIP those 96..
Football changed for the good almost immediately but at the cost of not just the 96 who died at Hillsborough but those that died in the years before due to negligence of the game. I can now take my children to football, knowing that something like this will never (hopefully) happen again.
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Why indeed. A lot of bizarre things happened. 20 questions that need answering:
http://downloads.hfdinfo.com/3HFD20Qs.pdf
Horrendous.
1 Question: 96 Responses. Source - http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/news/latest-news/1-question-96-responses-part-1
On the 22nd anniversary of Britain's worst sporting disaster, we publish 96 very different responses to the question: What does Hillsborough mean to you?
Scot Williams, Actor
What does Hillsborough mean to me? In brief, it breaks my heart in two every time I hear the word.
I can no longer sing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' without crying a river of tears.
I remember doing my research for my role of Joe Glover in the 1996 Docu-Drama 'Hillsborough', (Joe was surviving brother of Ian Glover, one of the 96 victims).
I remember interviewing a guy in a wheelchair who hadn't walked since that fateful day of April 15th 1989. He was completely able bodied and had full use of his legs, but on that particular day he had stood on children's head's and so now flatly refused to ever stand upon his own two feet again.
I interviewed a man who had barely said a single word in the seven years between the disaster and the film. That man told me something that he had NEVER told anyone else, not even his own parents and that something was his brothers final words to him that day: 'Please don't let me die'.
I spoke to a guy who awoke under a pile of bodies, presumed dead and flung aside. He'd had his pulse taken by a policeman wearing leather gloves.
I scrolled through piles and piles of photographs of victims of crush asphyxia, shots from that day that where very rarely seen. Men with arms broken at right angles; old men crying; children dying.
Hillsborough was TWO disasters. First, what unfurled that day in the Leppings Lane stands and secondly the disaster that followed in the law courts. I watched hour upon hour of footage from both of these events. I saw survivors and families of the dead being asked if their loved ones had been drunk, disorderly.
I saw Liverpool football fans accused of terrible, terrible things. I saw hideous blatant lies spread on tabloid front pages in a bid to make bloody money, but people have eyes and they will have seen what I saw.
Great heroism, courage, initiative, an army of medics and soldiers all dressed in the Red shirts of LFC fighting for their fellow men and women, fighting for the family that is Liverpool Football Club.
So yes, Hillsborough to me means INJUSTICE, TRADGEDY, TEARS.
But it also means PRIDE, HOPE and LOVE. YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE.
So very shocking and just ;(
On the 22nd anniversary of Britain's worst sporting disaster, we publish 96 very different responses to the question: What does Hillsborough mean to you?
Scot Williams, Actor
What does Hillsborough mean to me? In brief, it breaks my heart in two every time I hear the word.
I can no longer sing 'You'll Never Walk Alone' without crying a river of tears.
I remember doing my research for my role of Joe Glover in the 1996 Docu-Drama 'Hillsborough', (Joe was surviving brother of Ian Glover, one of the 96 victims).
I remember interviewing a guy in a wheelchair who hadn't walked since that fateful day of April 15th 1989. He was completely able bodied and had full use of his legs, but on that particular day he had stood on children's head's and so now flatly refused to ever stand upon his own two feet again.
I interviewed a man who had barely said a single word in the seven years between the disaster and the film. That man told me something that he had NEVER told anyone else, not even his own parents and that something was his brothers final words to him that day: 'Please don't let me die'.
I spoke to a guy who awoke under a pile of bodies, presumed dead and flung aside. He'd had his pulse taken by a policeman wearing leather gloves.
I scrolled through piles and piles of photographs of victims of crush asphyxia, shots from that day that where very rarely seen. Men with arms broken at right angles; old men crying; children dying.
Hillsborough was TWO disasters. First, what unfurled that day in the Leppings Lane stands and secondly the disaster that followed in the law courts. I watched hour upon hour of footage from both of these events. I saw survivors and families of the dead being asked if their loved ones had been drunk, disorderly.
I saw Liverpool football fans accused of terrible, terrible things. I saw hideous blatant lies spread on tabloid front pages in a bid to make bloody money, but people have eyes and they will have seen what I saw.
Great heroism, courage, initiative, an army of medics and soldiers all dressed in the Red shirts of LFC fighting for their fellow men and women, fighting for the family that is Liverpool Football Club.
So yes, Hillsborough to me means INJUSTICE, TRADGEDY, TEARS.
But it also means PRIDE, HOPE and LOVE. YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE.
So very shocking and just ;(
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YNWA JFT 96
To this day its shocking that 96 can die and not one person is being held accountable for their actions on that day .
To this day its shocking that 96 can die and not one person is being held accountable for their actions on that day .
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Very sad day remember listening to on some portable radio , when beardsly hit the cross bar made things worse un be known to him 
Let's be thankful it hit the bar and didn't go in because if it did, a lot more than 96 would have died.Very sad day remember listening to on some portable radio , when beardsly hit the cross bar made things worse un be known to him
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very very true , how long did liverpool players not play a game for? Alderidge was worst effected IIRC?
They played Forest in the replay and Aldridge played, that was 3 weeks later...it was at old trafford
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My brother and cousin had tickets for that day (won them though school), in the same paddock as the crush happened.
That's one day i was thankful for a bus breaking down.
We went as a family after to lay flowers.
A sad day in football history.
That's one day i was thankful for a bus breaking down.
We went as a family after to lay flowers.
A sad day in football history.
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