| 35 Years Ago Today 08:50 - May 29 with 1431 views | artsbossbeard |
Thousands of football fans went to see a game of football, 39 never came home.
The Echo has an article on it this year complete with a B&W picture - like it's of another age and 35yrs doesn't represent the LFC of now.
A Cummings-esque lack of apology is evident (or non-evident) whilst, naturally, blaming the stadia still.
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| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:10 - May 29 with 1370 views | BloomBlue |
That's how it was, the Liverpool chairman even tried to blame it on Chelsea and Millwall fans dressed up in Liverpool shirts, one of the reasons why Chelsea fans hate L'pool so much.
Basically Liverpool fans went out got plssed and attacked and killed Juventus fans, the blame was and is squarely with the Liverpool fans. |  | | |
| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:17 - May 29 with 1334 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
Has there ever been an official apology?
I remember as a kid in the 90's I was on holiday in France and a mate was wearing a Liverpool shirt. An Italian lad got really angry just at the sight of the shirt.
That was the first I'd ever heard of Heysel, same goes for the Pool supporter.
80's was a bad decade for stadium disasters wasn't it! Glad we learned lessons. |  |
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| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:33 - May 29 with 1278 views | blueprint |
They always refer to Heysel being a “crumbling stadium”. We played in worse stadiums in the 80s and didn’t go on the ramapage. |  | | |
| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:35 - May 29 with 1272 views | BryanPlug |
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| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:36 - May 29 with 1259 views | footers |
| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:35 - May 29 by BryanPlug |
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You've been a proper tit lately.
We're talking about dozens of people's deaths here ffs. |  |
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| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:39 - May 29 with 1236 views | brazil1982 |
One of my earliest memories of football on TV, a terrible season for fan violence.
Not excusing anything, but the stadium was shoddy and authorities were surprised it had been chosen to host the final (source: can't recall sorry).
Shocking too that the match still went ahead. |  | | |
| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:42 - May 29 with 1218 views | MattinLondon |
Not sure if this s reflective of their fan base as a whole - a Liverpool fan I got talking to once I insisted that both clubs were equally to blame. He was quite an idiot so he probably didn’t know what he was talking about. |  | | |
| 35 Years Ago Today on 10:04 - May 29 with 1165 views | BlueBadger |
| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:35 - May 29 by BryanPlug |
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Try not to be a prat, there's a dear. |  |
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| 35 Years Ago Today on 10:43 - May 29 with 1103 views | Radlett_blue |
| 35 Years Ago Today on 09:39 - May 29 by brazil1982 |
One of my earliest memories of football on TV, a terrible season for fan violence.
Not excusing anything, but the stadium was shoddy and authorities were surprised it had been chosen to host the final (source: can't recall sorry).
Shocking too that the match still went ahead. |
The match went ahead - and Liverpool didn't seem to be trying too hard as I think their players knew fans had died - because abandonment would have brought the greater risk of a full scale riot. Playing the match and not allowing Liverpool to win - which seemed to have been decided - was the right decision. [Post edited 29 May 2020 10:43]
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