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There are a f ew persons on here aware that i am an avid football fan and twenty years ago was very interested to see how Liverpool were getting on in their FA cup match as my team Arsenal were neck and neck with them for the league title and were due to play them a couple of days later so I was rather hoping liverpool would win their cup match and be distracted from beating us. So i trotted in off the yard about 3.15 to check the score at Hilsborough.
by that time the scene was live although the commentators still seemed to think it wa a hooligan pitch invasion but will never forget what I saw that day, To make it worse for me ten days before at Highbury the kick off was delayed (cant remeber why) and when the gates were opened into the North bank stand everyone shoved forward it was terrifying, several people got swept off their feet, i only didnt get squashed as i stayed next to a police horse. at one point i realised there was a child in front of me who i couldnt avoid pushing in the crush so i grabbed him and the mounted policeman pulled him onto his horse, but we wwere all going into a big space and those awful minutes were very few and apart from the odd cut or bruise there was no drama. But watching Hilsborough at he time, I could just imagine the scene, I still can and it still brings me to tears.
Football fans are so often maligned but this wasnt their fault and indeed the death toll might have been worse if it wasnt for the fans quick thinking and heroic efforts. You are going to watch a game, you dont expect to die doing it.
Deepest sympathy to all those who lost a loved one, and those who were there and scarred by what they saw.
 
It happened before I was born. I feel sadened by what happened and proud of Liverpools best efforts of saving their fellow supporters. A lot of papers posted derogatory (Is this the word?) information about them, inplying the supporters didnt help in anyway and one paper put that a support urinated in somebodys mouth. My thaught go out to the families who lost a love one in the terrible disaster. Lets home a situation will be averted in future.
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R.I.P

Nick.
 
Living in Hillsborough I go past the ground a fair bit and always think of what happened
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Thoughts and prayers are once again with all that lost a friend or family member that day.
 
I too watched it unfold on tv - coming from a family that follow football up here in Scotland and watched a lot of the English games what I saw that day, I will never forget. I have felt very tearful today when I have seen the reports on TV and can only send my thoughts to the families of the 96 that died at Hillsborough that day - You Will Never Walk Alone.
 
I remember watching it on tv, my daugher was only a few months old and my hormones were all over the place, I wept buckets watching the fans tryiing to climb out, and in the early stages the police stopping them
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My thoughts will be with all who were in any way affected by the tragedy this afternoon.
 
I was always aware of the tragedy but had never taken the time to sit down and read about it. I did this last night and found myself crying! So tragic, so sad, so unnecesary.

RIP the Hilsborough 96
 
Am a scouser and my family are big liverpool fans who went to every game, lucky they never had tickets for this game but seen it unfold on tv it was awful as peiople we knew were there good family friends I was only 7 or 8 but knew something awful was going on. Needless to say the sun is banned in my familys house. I went with my dad and brother to lay flowers at Anfeild it was so very sad I also went to the concert at anfeild at the end all the acts who were playing sang you will never walk alone while the 96 names came up on a screen it was the most saddest thing I have witnessed.
I must add I was on you tube the other day and some of the comments were so vile some people still think what was in papers were true.
RIP to 96
thoughts to familys and all those involved
You will never walk alone xxxx
 
Another one who has been moved today by the tributes paid to the people who died on that awful day and also to those who tried so desperately hard to save them. As a Sheffield girl, I can remember where I was when the awful events were unfolding. I don't think I'll ever forget that feeling of horror. What a dreadful price those 96 people paid, they'd gone simply to enjoy a game of football
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I too watched the events unfold on TV and, being a Nottingham girl and Forest being my team, I feel a close connection to the events that day. My husband's family are all from Liverpool and, like many, were affected by the tragedy.

I listened to the Nottingham memorial service on the radio today and was, yet again, moved to tears.

My thoughts are with all those affected every day but particularly today.
 
It was terrible to see what happened. I grew up in Wirral going to some Liverpool matches. One of my friends was at work while her boyfriend at the time, was at the match. She went home to sit by the phone and wait to see if he was OK.

Luckily he was fine and they went on to get married. It was bad enough waching on the telly, I can't imagine what it would have been like to be there, or sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring.
 
I remember it very vividly, we lost 2 boys from our close (of 20 houses).
Sleep Peacefully Kevin Williams and Stuart Thompson and your 94 friends.
I must also say I am still very proud of Kev's mum Anne who is on the telly and still fighting for what she believes.
 
I watched the memorial service on sky sports this afternoon. It was so very sad, they showed photos of all 96 supporters who lost there lives it was very emotional.
 
Can remember it very well< Iam originally from Sheffield, grew up there and went to school there, I was 16 at the time, looking forward to leaving school. It was horrific.
can anyone remember that other football disaster the one with the fire where people got killed, I seem to think it was a few years before the Hillsboro' one.
 
I wasn't a football person, I was out competing, so my main memories are the horrific photographs in the sun the next day, and the tv footage with the benefit of hindsight.

I still can't believe the total disregard of the police for the fans.
 
not likely to forget that one either. that was valley parade bradford and about 50 people died i think. sadly if some of the recommendations from that inquiry had been followed Hilsborough might not have been so bad four years later.
and GTF, i have a certain compassion for the police on the pitch, they couldnt see what was happening at first, they thought it was a pitch invasion, but once they did realise they set about ripping fences down and helping people escape as best they could.
we forget how well behaved football fans are now in comparison, then you expected trouble and usually got it. Just a complete tragedy.
 
I wasn't really fully aware of what happened as I was 5 at the time. Listening to the radio today I was fighting back tears at the horror of it all. I can't believe it happened, the stories were so upsetting, just normal people who never came home.
I'm not sure justice will be seen - what do you all think?
 
Like Amina I'm also a local, but was very young at the time.

My dads mate was working there on the day (mounted police) and he was incharge of the other main gate. He reckons it's all this one guys fault (also a mounty) because he couldn't keep control.
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All very sad.
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Can remember it very well< Iam originally from Sheffield, grew up there and went to school there, I was 16 at the time, looking forward to leaving school. It was horrific.
can anyone remember that other football disaster the one with the fire where people got killed, I seem to think it was a few years before the Hillsboro' one.

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I guess you're referring to the Bradford City disaster
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I'm a Liverpool fan and remember watching the events at Hillsborough unfold on tv. Terribly sad...

Liverpool seem to have more than their share of the bad times...let's not forget Heysel either
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