| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End 14:57 - Mar 17 with 6559 views | Zx1988 |
Please do forgive me if this is an insensitive question, but some of the clips from Town in 5 got me wondering.
Given the history of the place, is it a strange feeling being sat in the Leppings Lane End at Hillsborough?
In hindsight, I guess I'm a little surprised that the stand wasn't torn down given the number of deaths associated with it. Although I suppose maybe it's a more recent trend to do away with places like that, associated with loss of life? |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:01 - Mar 17 with 4396 views | Perublue |
It’s a fair question I kind of thought the same over the years almost as a shining beacon of hope and progress of all the changes stadium wise and culturally that happened afterwards .. Fred West’s house was demolished. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:02]
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:04 - Mar 17 with 4356 views | SitfcB |
I do find it strange how it didn’t get modified some how, it’s still as it was back then just with seats installed.
The same eerie tunnel in the middle, one of only 3 small access points to the lower tier. |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:05 - Mar 17 with 4328 views | MaySixth |
I sat in the top tier in 1990 - December 15th - the year after the disaster.
We drew 2-2 at Sheff Wed.
It was a very disconcerting experience.
Craig Forrest found it impossible to turn around and look at the lower terrace, almost refusing to recognise it and letting the ballboys/ballgirls do their work.
I could see the terrace from above and it wasn't great. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:07]
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:07 - Mar 17 with 4297 views | Zx1988 |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:04 - Mar 17 by SitfcB |
I do find it strange how it didn’t get modified some how, it’s still as it was back then just with seats installed.
The same eerie tunnel in the middle, one of only 3 small access points to the lower tier. |
Funny you should mention that - that was the clip from Town in 5 that got me pondering; the view down that access tunnel towards the pitch.
Hillsborough is very much on my list of stadia I'd like to visit before they get demolished/modernised, but I'm not convinced I'd actually want to go and enjoy a football match whilst being in that stand. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:07]
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:11 - Mar 17 with 4225 views | Metal_Hacker |
I said to Glassers and his lad walking down to the ground or it could've been when we were in the Neepsend how eerie it is to actually consider we're frequenting a place where so many sadly lost their lives
As Sitters has said that tunnel just makes the hairs on my neck stand up
RIP those that perished |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:12 - Mar 17 with 4217 views | Steve_M |
I've been in the upper tier several times but, I never want to go in the lower tier. I just feel on some emotional level that it shouldn't be there still after what happened.
The upper tier is fine, concourse is too small and it's dated but the view is good - provided one is not too close to the supporting pillars. |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:21 - Mar 17 with 4076 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
I wouldnt disagree, and maybe if they get new owners and a stadium revamp it would be a good idea to replace it.
The main physical dangers I guess were the terracing and those deadly fences, which are thankfully long gone.
There was a poster on TWTD who was at Hillsbrough on that tragic day. Not sure if he still posts. |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:27 - Mar 17 with 4001 views | ITFC_Forever |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:21 - Mar 17 by Marshalls_Mullet |
I wouldnt disagree, and maybe if they get new owners and a stadium revamp it would be a good idea to replace it.
The main physical dangers I guess were the terracing and those deadly fences, which are thankfully long gone.
There was a poster on TWTD who was at Hillsbrough on that tragic day. Not sure if he still posts. |
Blue Lagos, and he’s very much still part of the TWTD community.
I was also at that game in December 1991, you could still see the bent crush barriers on the terrace.
I’ve also been through that central tunnel… we played there in the mid-90s, and being a tight student, I paid to go through the home turnstiles in the lower tier to save a fiver, and as I walked through, I realised where I was and my blood ran cold.
Stewards let me move upstairs when I explained I’d accidentally come through the wrong turnstile. |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:31 - Mar 17 with 3940 views | Cheltenham_Blue |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:04 - Mar 17 by SitfcB |
I do find it strange how it didn’t get modified some how, it’s still as it was back then just with seats installed.
The same eerie tunnel in the middle, one of only 3 small access points to the lower tier. |
Before your time wasn't it Sitters? |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:36 - Mar 17 with 3847 views | tommcd |
I was 9 when the Hillsborough disaster happened, but don't have any recollection of seeing it on the news etc from when it happened. But I visited 12/13 years ago, echoes of the past events were too strong for me, I found it an extremely eerie & unpleasant experience. I was sat in the upper tier so although you walk past it, I didn't have to walk through the central tunnel to the lower tier, I don't think I'd have been able to do it if that's where my seat had been.
Absolutely no desire to revisit. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:38]
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:37 - Mar 17 with 3830 views | Churchman |
I’m surprised the stand wasn’t replaced. It should have been.
If Wednesday were not in a position to fund it, the rest of football certainly was. Not something one would normally advocate, but that disaster was pretty much unique and went far further than Hillsborough, whether we are talking about fences, policing, crowd management, standing or an accident waiting to happen, you name it.
The names, ages, gender on the memorial outside Anfield tell you that. |  | | |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:41 - Mar 17 with 3789 views | MaySixth |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:36 - Mar 17 by tommcd |
I was 9 when the Hillsborough disaster happened, but don't have any recollection of seeing it on the news etc from when it happened. But I visited 12/13 years ago, echoes of the past events were too strong for me, I found it an extremely eerie & unpleasant experience. I was sat in the upper tier so although you walk past it, I didn't have to walk through the central tunnel to the lower tier, I don't think I'd have been able to do it if that's where my seat had been.
Absolutely no desire to revisit. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:38]
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I have a very close friend who was their that day, still a Liverpool ST holder.
Refuses to talk about that day.
Although I grew up in NW London, I remember my classmate in tears on the Monday following - she was a close friend of the Hicks sisters who had travelled up with their Mum and Dad in the morning and unfortunately died. | |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:43 - Mar 17 with 3714 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
I found the unaltered section in the corner between home and away very poignant. |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:44 - Mar 17 with 3704 views | SitfcB |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:31 - Mar 17 by Cheltenham_Blue |
Before your time wasn't it Sitters? |
Yeah, 3 years.
I remember doing something on it at high school though so learned what there was to know. | |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:47 - Mar 17 with 3671 views | RonFearonsHair |
My eldest brought this up as we were stood on the lower tier before kick-off on Saturday.
I pointed out the narrow central gangway and asked him to imagine the fences at the front of the stand.
I agree with those who say the whole thing should just have been demolished. It's staggering that it's not only still standing but virtually unchanged.
But, as eerie as it was, I think he appreciated the opportunity to be able to stand there and take in the historical significance of where he was, much as you would do when visiting any site where multiple people lost their lives I guess. |  | | |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:48 - Mar 17 with 3663 views | gainsboroughblue |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:05 - Mar 17 by MaySixth |
I sat in the top tier in 1990 - December 15th - the year after the disaster.
We drew 2-2 at Sheff Wed.
It was a very disconcerting experience.
Craig Forrest found it impossible to turn around and look at the lower terrace, almost refusing to recognise it and letting the ballboys/ballgirls do their work.
I could see the terrace from above and it wasn't great. [Post edited 17 Mar 15:07]
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Funny what sticks in the brain.
I was there too and when I saw the thread, that memory of Craig was what immediately came to my mind. |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 16:28 - Mar 17 with 3408 views | Linners |
It was never very far from my mind tbh as it was my first time in the lower tier. I studied the Hillsborough Disaster at Uni and have followed the various inquiries, reports etc ever since.
The ground is still pretty decrepit, and so many of the key features are just as they were that day. The tunnel was was struck me as well. We got there pretty late on Saturday and just came through the turnstile as the game kicked-off. I could see O'Shea punting the ball downfield the moment I entered the ground, just the in the same way that the 2,000 people that came through that opened gate would have seen the pitch at the end of the tunnel.
It is a lovely, traditional old football ground, but I was struck by how little has been updated and improved. |  | | |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 16:53 - Mar 17 with 3259 views | WubbleU |
It says something about Sheffield Wednesday and their role in the disaster that Hillsborough is probably the ground which has changed the least since 1989, it is a sick irony. Only the police cover up saved Sheffield Wednesday being found partly responsible, but still the terrace remains with seats bolted on. All safe now of course but a total lack of respect, understanding and responsibility.
No one should ever go to Hillsborough without spending a few sad moments reflecting. | | | |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 16:57 - Mar 17 with 3206 views | Illinoisblue |
Was the ESPN 30 for 30 episode about Hillsborough ever shown in the UK? |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:01 - Mar 17 with 3167 views | bluelagos |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 16:57 - Mar 17 by Illinoisblue |
Was the ESPN 30 for 30 episode about Hillsborough ever shown in the UK? |
Yep, they had to delay showing it until after some of the legal stuff was completed. |  |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:08 - Mar 17 with 3121 views | Linners |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:01 - Mar 17 by bluelagos |
Yep, they had to delay showing it until after some of the legal stuff was completed. |
It's one of the few documentaries that was ever allowed/able to show some of the images taken looking down on the terrace as it was being cleared. One to be careful of if you do find it as it's distressing. | | | |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:15 - Mar 17 with 3029 views | bluelagos |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:08 - Mar 17 by Linners |
It's one of the few documentaries that was ever allowed/able to show some of the images taken looking down on the terrace as it was being cleared. One to be careful of if you do find it as it's distressing. |
I got invited to a private showing of the Kenny Dalglish documentary last year. The Hillsborough stuff was hard hitting, the bits in Heysel also unbelievably difficult viewing.
I was only 15 when that happened and the TV coverage at the time clearly decided not to show the worst of it. Awful, awful scenes, I fed back to the film maker the need for some proper "viewer warnings" given the content.
Same guy who made the films on Maradona and on Senna. Very talented film maker | |
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:24 - Mar 17 with 2945 views | jasondozzell |
I don't know if this is weird but it's my favourite away ground. But obviously very aware of the tragedy.
The view from the upper tier is fantastic but I always find myself looking down at the lower and pitch side and thinking of what happened every time I visit. |  | | |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:24 - Mar 17 with 2952 views | Whos_blue |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 15:27 - Mar 17 by ITFC_Forever |
Blue Lagos, and he’s very much still part of the TWTD community.
I was also at that game in December 1991, you could still see the bent crush barriers on the terrace.
I’ve also been through that central tunnel… we played there in the mid-90s, and being a tight student, I paid to go through the home turnstiles in the lower tier to save a fiver, and as I walked through, I realised where I was and my blood ran cold.
Stewards let me move upstairs when I explained I’d accidentally come through the wrong turnstile. |
Lagers will be too humble to say this himself, but his daily updates from the inquiry were engrossing.
His lived experience of the disaster enabled him to write from the viewpoint of a fan caught up in the mayhem. Not only the horrific events on the day, but also his first hand experience of the subsequent cover ups.
It shames all those involved and for some of them to "celebrate" their technical innocence was a disgrace.
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| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:28 - Mar 17 with 2924 views | Illinoisblue |
| Hillsborough - Leppings Lane End on 17:08 - Mar 17 by Linners |
It's one of the few documentaries that was ever allowed/able to show some of the images taken looking down on the terrace as it was being cleared. One to be careful of if you do find it as it's distressing. |
It’s really well done but on first viewing I was not prepared for what they showed in the pens. Brutal viewing. | |
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