20 years ago...

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(and please leave all the 'debate' and bullshit in the other thread)

...96 football fans went to a match and never returned home. Children as young as 10 died because they wanted to see their heroes in an FA Cup semi-final. Think about what you take for granted when you or your friends and family go to a match today. Whatever the rights and wrongs, nobody should die watching football, and they should be remembered.

RIP.

[Worthy4England]

Indeed Blurred.

RIP.

[Raven]

Well said Blurred

RIP to those that never came back and peace to those still living with it.

[InsaneApache]

Remember watching it unfold on the telly. Horrendous.

RIP.

[FaninOz]

Agreed no one should die for supporting their team in any sport.

RIP

[ratbert]

I remember watching it unfold on Grandstand. It was one of those 'snowball' stories, where what began as a report of a minor crowd disturbance got more and more horrific as the scale of the death and tragedy rose. You can't quite comprehend it even today.

We at Bolton of course had our own crowd disaster so the pain is acutely felt here.

[Lord Kangana]

Watched with my Dad and Uncle in a Rumbellows shop in Preston. We went to check the semi-final scores, and as Ratbert says, ended up watching for about an hour as the horror unfolded. A small crowd developed in the shop as it was clear that something bad was happening, and I remember several (older) people muttering that the bloody hooligans were at it again, though I remember thinking it looked so different than the usual scenes we'd all witnessed through the '80's.

RIP.

[malcd1]

Echoed here as well.

It's a shame we need a disaster like this to happen before improvements are made. It could of happened at virtually any ground in the country to any of us.

So many families devastated.

R.I.P.

[Tombwfc]

RIP

[Verbal]

Was but 1 year old at the time, so don't have any memories of the event. Still, mention Hillsborough to any football fan and I'd imagine everyone of them would doth their cap in sympathy. Reading the stories and looking at the pictures are enough for me, I cannot begin to imagine what it must have been like to be involved, either through being there or through family ties. Whether they be remain with us or have sadly departed, my thoughts are with them.

Rest in peace.

[wovlad]

Thanks for posting this thread Blurred.

Had several friends go to the game & to coin Brian Hanrahan of the beeb
'I counted them out and i counted them all back again' the last one managed to phone home about 1am to say he was on his way home, phew. That was a very, very, very long day into the night.

As has been said no football fan should be killed at a football match, RIP the 96

[officer_dibble]

Have no memories of it, was only 5 at the time.

No-one however should have to lose their life at a football match. And no-one should have to live with a loved one losing their life, at a football match.

RIP.

[eddybwfc]

RIP to the people who died in the hilsborough disaster.



My friend went to the memorial today.

[Crouch > Davies]

Thanks everyone, on behalf of Liverpool fans.

[Traf]

A sad day for 96 individuals.
A sad day for 96 families.
A sad day for a whole community.
And a sad day for football.

RIP the 96, please never let it happen again.

[bristol_Wanderer3]

RIP to all the dead, and best wishes to all of the living in some way affected by this tragedy.

[Prufrock]

Agreed indeed. 96 people went to watch a football and never came home. Hundreds more came back a shell of a person. That is a truly tragic thing and everybody's thoughts are surely with them.