Hillsborough Remembering

[St Landrew]

A well written, personal story of the day this commentator was completely safe while those in the Leppings Lane died.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/stevewilson/2009/04/hillsborough.html

[Redbul]

Very good article.

 

 

 

I have many Liverpool supporting mates who, to this day, will not read The Sun. Can't say that I blame them.

[Rattlehead]

If you actually read it you would realise he was in the Leppings Lane end as well.

[St Landrew]

If you actually read it you would realise he was in the Leppings Lane end as well.

 

True. I meant to add the description of those behind the goal... but it's not really about my error, is it..?

[badgerx16]

I remember it well; at exactly the time this was all happening, I was undergoing an emergency appendectomy

 

Came round from the anaesthetic, expecting to hear the footy results, but instead the first thing I heard was ambulances on the pitch.

Edited 10 April, 2009 by badgerx16

[Deppo]

True. I meant to add the description of those behind the goal... but it's not really about my error, is it..?

 

Still, well done for picking holes in a well-intentioned post, Rattlehead.

Edited 10 April, 2009 by Deppo

[TopGun]

I was a student in Liverpool at the time. Will never forget it. Had housemates who had gone to Hillsborough. They came back and were white with shock. A fellow student had his g/f die that day too (one of two sisters to die). The aftermath seemed to go on forever.

 

I went to the Everton-Liverpool game that was the first league game they played afterwards. I was in the Gladys St end with the Evertonians. The Liverpool fans at the other end unfurled a massive banner that said "Liverpool salutes you. We never walked alone." Set quite a few people off around me.

[tommi]

To the 96 fans who never made it home that day, RIP. You'll never be forgotten.

[70's Mike]

RIP There but for the Grace of God could be many of us who put up with poor conditions during tthat era

[Chorlton]

Wonder if there are any plans to show the TV drama by Jimmy McGovern (or was it Barry Hines?) about the tragedy. It is some of the most powerful TV I have ever seen. I still find it difficult to watch the footage of what happened that day, or read the reports.. Each time I have been to Anfield since, I have looked at the Shrine and seen the list of names, which mostly seemed to be young lads between 16 -35. which pretty much covers my ages between then & now. Also remember going up to Sheffield Wednesday on semi final weekend the year after. My mate & I were the normal gobby 16 year olds at an away game, then walked down the steps in our stand and looked down at the Leppings Lane terrace. It shut us both up straight away as we pictured what had happened.

 

Hope generations to come remember what happened, and study the cover up aftewards.

[Blanco Saint]

I was watching Saints that day, it was West Ham away. I remember the stadium announcer saying something about the incident, i think he said 4 people had been killed, which, obviously sounded very shocking at the time. As we left the game there was a crush and scramble for the exits, probably no different than normal but some how sent a panic to the terraces and became very scary with the news that was filtering through.

 

I recently read a sunday papers very vivid accounts of that awful day at hillsborough, written from many different perspectives. It left me feeling traumatised, especially the accounts from a mother who never saw her son again after sending him off to a footie game and the guy who was counting down the secounds remaining in his life(or so he thought) before the gates to the pitch were opened saving his life. The portrayal from the Sun newspaper was truely awful. It has given me a greater respect of Liverpool Fc and as mentioned before it could have been any of us. Peace up.

[Saint137]

I was working in the local newsagent. Always had the radio on whilst I dished out the Echo to the paperboys and remember the reports trickling through - at first crowd trouble, then pitch invasion, then the first reports of deaths. Between two updates the death toll jumped from 13 to 31 and I remember thinking the announcer had misread it.

As a regular in those penned-in terraces it really hit home - everyone who went to footie back then will I'm sure have though "There but for the grace of god..."

Didn't go for a long time after that day, football seemed less important.

 

What it did though is bring fans together - AC Mian singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" for example on the next day for example. And the Kop singing "Justice for the 96" at the start of that Cup tie a couple of years back was just spine-tingling...

[SaintSparky]

Listened to "Hillsborough Stories" on Five Live this evening, presented by Kelly Cates (nee Dalglish); it contains some very moving stories from that day that bring the event back in to a very clear focus 20 years on.

 

To listern, go here... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00jsnyy

[TopGun]

I was watching Saints that day, it was West Ham away. I remember the stadium announcer saying something about the incident, i think he said 4 people had been killed, which, obviously sounded very shocking at the time. As we left the game there was a crush and scramble for the exits, probably no different than normal but some how sent a panic to the terraces and became very scary with the news that was filtering through.

 

I recently read a sunday papers very vivid accounts of that awful day at hillsborough, written from many different perspectives. It left me feeling traumatised, especially the accounts from a mother who never saw her son again after sending him off to a footie game and the guy who was counting down the secounds remaining in his life(or so he thought) before the gates to the pitch were opened saving his life. The portrayal from the Sun newspaper was truely awful. It has given me a greater respect of Liverpool Fc and as mentioned before it could have been any of us. Peace up.

 

I am the same. The initial reaction of government ministers and the right wing media of the day was a disgrace and just showed how out of touch they were with the vast majority of football supporters.

 

By contrast the grace shown by the people of Liverpool was astounding. It's easy to take the **** out of Liverpool stereotypes but that was a city that displayed immense dignity in the face of outrageous slanders at the time from the establishment.

[Jamie The Saint]

Wonder if there are any plans to show the TV drama by Jimmy McGovern (or was it Barry Hines?) about the tragedy. It is some of the most powerful TV I have ever seen. I still find it difficult to watch the footage of what happened that day, or read the reports.. Each time I have been to Anfield since, I have looked at the Shrine and seen the list of names, which mostly seemed to be young lads between 16 -35. which pretty much covers my ages between then & now. Also remember going up to Sheffield Wednesday on semi final weekend the year after. My mate & I were the normal gobby 16 year olds at an away game, then walked down the steps in our stand and looked down at the Leppings Lane terrace. It shut us both up straight away as we pictured what had happened.

 

Hope generations to come remember what happened, and study the cover up aftewards.

 

They are showing the TV drama on Wednesday on ITV 3 at 9pm

[Poshie72]

I remember the day well. It was the day my dad re-married. We had the reception at his house, and me being the football nut pestered my dad to let me put the TV on to see the result at 90 mins. I couldn't believe what I was seeing and hearing. I think back to the days when I would go on the terraces with my dad at The Dell, and in particular one game against Liverpool, when because there was so many people, he literally pushed me to the front where I stayed all match virtually pinned against the fence. As someone else said 'There but for the Grace of God'

[Dog]

I remember that day very well, we beat West Ham Utd away with Rod Wallace scoring after just a minute or so.

Still got the bruises to show.

[Saint137]

I love Youtube; here is the clip of the AC Milan fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone:

 

 

Spine-tingling stuff and its what non-football fans will never get about the game - the solidarity between fans when its about something bigger than the game itself...

[Dicko]

I remember that day very well, we beat West Ham Utd away with Rod Wallace scoring after just a minute or so.

Still got the bruises to show.

 

Yeah, we won 2-1

 

That was my first away game

[TopGun]

I'm very pleased to see that the current government is asking South Yorks Police to open up their files which has never been demanded before.

 

Obviously current politicians have no qualms about this as their hands are not dirty but it has taken the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster to make them consider it, which is wrong.

Edited 19 April, 2009 by TopGun

[hamster]

I'm very pleased to see that the current government is asking South Yorks Police to open up their files which has never been demanded before.

 

Obviously current politicians have no qualms about this as their hands are not dirty but it has taken the 20th anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster to make them consider it, which is wrong.

 

10 years earlier than they are due to be open too.

 

In the current climate of police and authorities being held accountable for their actions and inactions, it can only be a good thing. We, the voters, should have more confidence in them and this will help even if it does open up a few wounds, it has to be done imho.

[TopGun]

10 years earlier than they are due to be open too.

 

In the current climate of police and authorities being held accountable for their actions and inactions, it can only be a good thing. We, the voters, should have more confidence in them and this will help even if it does open up a few wounds, it has to be done imho.

 

It should be the case that South Yorks Police hand up complete files otherwise they will be asked about missing elements which will dig a deeper hole for them. But I wonder how much support youngish politicians like Andy Burnham will get from the older Civil Servants in the Home Office and South Yorks Police.

[Big John]

It should be the case that South Yorks Police hand up complete files otherwise they will be asked about missing elements which will dig a deeper hole for them..

 

They already 'lost' a couple of video tapes! They should do this quickly and have a respested head oversee it, like erm....