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How many ticketless fans were in the stadium, contributing to events ? Or are Liverpool fans not prepared to stand up and be counted ?
Erm who opened the gates ?? Another pr1ck give's a brainless comment ffsHow many ticketless fans were in the stadium, contributing to events ? Or are Liverpool fans not prepared to stand up and be counted ?
How many ticketless fans were in the stadium, contributing to events ? Or are Liverpool fans not prepared to stand up and be counted ?
How many ticketless fans were in the stadium, contributing to events ? Or are Liverpool fans not prepared to stand up and be counted ?
Not many....as the police stopped every single coach on the way to the ground and asked to see all tickets, also stopped cars and most fans walking to the ground......educate yourself first before making stupid comments like that.
Has a single Liverpool fan who was in the ground without a ticket , that day came forward to say "I should not have been there? "
Hmmmmmmmm
Nuff said.
People at the back will always squash in if they can, they have no way of knowing what is happening at the front. To blame them when they have been directed onto the terraces is stupid.
Why, are they not adults, do they not have a sense of social responsibility?
You have no idea what you are talking about, perhaps you should stfu.
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One thing I did learn today from a Man utd supporter who is a season ticket holder is that thousands of them signed the petition to get the files released, although there is great rivalry I suppose its the football family coming togethere.
Hope the families can get some sort of closure and well done to the campaign for going on all these years
As would the scousers if the boot had been on the other foot, so to speak.
This is an Evertons account of his experiences on the day.
Sidfishes
12 September 2012 8:53PM
The evening of the tragedy I was 29 and I was sitting in a pub after travelling back from Villa Park and watching Everton beat Norwich in the other semi-final. Two minibuses had left that pub car park earlier that day; all off to enjoy a football match and a day out.
At 315 a buzz went around the stand the Everton supporters were in; some of the lads had radios - these were the days before mobile phones and a rumour went around that a stand had collapsed and there were 10 dead... 10 became 30. At half time all anyone was thinking about was the events happening at Hillsborough as the scale of the tragedy unfolded.
The game ended - we won 1-0 and on the way out one of the lads asked a West Midlands police officer what was happening... I'll never forget his reply
"70 Scousers dead... and if you lot kick off, there'll be another 70"
The trip home was in silence, except for the long queues at phone boxes before we reached the motorway and at service stations. I phoned my mum...
"Mum, just to let you know I'm okay... I was at the other game.."
A long pause
"Have you heard from our Stevie yet"? (my cousin)
She had, he had been on the mini-bus that went to Hillsborough.
We got to the pub and we waited for the other mini-bus. Lads who'd been taking the **** out of each other's team the night before and having daft fall outs were now waiting in hope, nervous daft jokes - some prayers muttered under our breaths... and the mini-bus pulled up and then the scanning of faces to see who was missing. They were lucky they all come back...
Well, I say they all came back - but I know that most of those lads left a little bit of themselves behind on the Leppings Lane Terrace; you could see it in their faces - I'd seen that look before in Falklands veterans - they'd seen horror and it was never going to leave them - not first thing in the morning - not last thing at night.
They survived - but it wasn't going to end for them that night - it took 23 years for the misplaced guilt to be finally expunged - too late for some. When I think of the later alcoholism and broken marriages that characterised some of the lads from that mini-bus - I can't help thinking that the events of that day and the 23 years of being under suspicion of contributing to the deaths of their friends in the most callous way by the national media and the oh so ****ing original innuendo spreaders and professional character assassination; I wonder how they carried on.
So to the lads (and girls) who came back and to the families who endured - my blue scouse heart goes out to you and if I've one bit of advice... don't let it rest here; take them to the highest courts in the land and get those disgraceful verdicts of accidental death overturned.
I don't deem to speak for all Evertonians - but as far as me and my mates are concerned - you never walked alone
I hope you find some peace