as the 20th anniversary of the hillsborough disater is approaching, is it possible to have a memorial thread to remember the 96.

i went to watch a match with a mate from work and went home alone afterwards...


RIP Eric

I don't really know much about it. I don't know why. Thinking about it I should know alot more about it actually. So pardon my ignorance here, but why do Liverpool fans hate one of the red tops? (The Sun?) I know it had something to do with the tragic events at Hillsborough.

RIP to all the people who died

YOULL NEVER WALK ALONE

The Sun basically accused Liverpool supporters of single-handedly causing the tragedy, as well as other misdemeanours.

The Sun at the time was edited by Kelvin MacKenzie, as nearly as obnoxious an individual as Piers Morgan.

the scum showed a photo of people being crushed against the fencing under the headline "SCUM"

Was it also The Sun that claimed Liverpool fans urinated on dead bodies after first relieving them of their wallets? Under the headline, The Real Truth if I remember correctly.

I was going to post the same but thought I had surely made it up. Sun = SCUM.

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RIP

I don't think we should de-rail this with anti- "The Sun" posts. I think we should keep this thread purely to pay respect to the 96 who lost thier lives.

unfortunately it was the hooligans of the 70s/80s that led to this. clubs had to cage supporters in as if they were wild animals and something like this was always going to happen. RIP to the 96 who died and yes there should be some memorial at the ground remembering these

well said that man........

JFT 96

RIP

I was in Kells on the day of the disaster, such a sad thing to happen and remember the images on TV and in the paper and being quite upset by it all...sad day for the people of Liverpool and the families involved and for football as a whole.

What is the justice LFC fans seek? An apology from The Sun?

go away you insignificant worm, if you knew anything about what happened you wouldn't have to ask such imbecillic questions.

I dont know an awful lot about it hence the question. So what is the justice you seek? Its a genuine Question.

generally the 80s was a time english football fans would like to forget with the bradford fire, the hesyl stadium and of course hillsborough. add to this falling attendances, ramshackle stadia, and terrace violence and things had to change which they did with new, safer grounds and a premier league.
tragedy was that it took several disasters to force the changes

we remember all those who perished in these horrible events

I think it's to do with the way hillsbrough was policed? Although I could be way off the mark with that.

Well put

Yeah, you're right, not the time or the place.

sorry, took it the wrong way,

we firmly believe that the police were at fault for the disaster by not managing the volume of the crowd correctly and by opening a gate to allow fans to flood through into an already overcrowded section of the leppings lane end. there were spaces on either side of the terrace but the middle section was packed. also a succession of home secretaries have ignored our plea for an independant public enquiry into the events surrounding the disaster.

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Actually, it was the neglect of clubs like Sheffield Wednesday in not keeping the terraces safe. Crash barriers were either missing or so dilapidated they buckled and collapsed under the pressure. If the ground had been properly maintained and the police hadn't just herded everyone into the centre pen rather than ensuring people got to the others as well, then the disaster could well have been averted. The authorities should've known something was likely to happen, ask any United fan who was stood on that Leppings Lane terrace just a few months previously what they thought of the state of the place. Unfortunately the authorities didn't think football fans were deserving of human rights and allowed places like Hillsborough to get into such a sorry, unsafe state.

It could've happened to anyone, which is something that a lot of people today should remember.

The fact that 96 people went to a football match full of excitement and expectation and ended up dying is a horrible tragedy and something that every football fan of a certain age will remember vividly.

But where's the memorial to the recently dead of the Ivory Coast? Where's the Bradford fire memorial? Heysel? Ibrox?

Nah, let's just forget those disasters and instead focus on the billionth remembrance of the Hillsborough tragedy.