News Reports of Hillsborough Football Disaster April 15th 1989 Part one
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Who would have ever thought when this was being reported and they were talking about enquiries being held, that it would take 27 years to finally be told the truth of what happened. R.I.P 96!
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Thoughts and prayers with both clubs, their fans, and families who lost their loved ones that day. From a Manchester United supporter. Hope you guys get your justice
It wasn't even that, Scott. The problem was that the police weren't monitoring the crowd build-up on the terraces properly. The cause of the disaster was not the opening of the gate, it was the failure to close access to pens 3&4 when they were full. Even if the gate hadn't been opened, the disaster would still have happened, as there was no way new arrivals could tell the pens were full, and the entrances to wing-pens were hard to see. So they would still have tried to enter the central pens.
RIP the 96 you will never be forgotten from a die-hard Man Utd fan
Brilliant shout mate. From a Liverpool fan. JFT96 YNWA. RIP to the Munich victims in 1958 too.
R.I.P the 96! from a manchester united fan! no one should go to a football match and never return home to their loved ones! may they rest in peace
As a Liverpool fan who watched this horror unfold at the time i would like to send my love and condolences to those affected and i truly hope the truth will now be reveled. you'll never walk alone x x x
Im an Everton fan from Australia, this is the 1st time i really looked into what the "Hillsborough Incident" was, and its just tragic, RIP to all that lost their lives.
I was 7 when this happened and I think it was the first time I was old enough to appreciate how bad this actually was, it made me feel ill.
96 you never forgotten! I'm german and I'm a big fan of LFC since many, many years! RIP + YNWA
RIP 96. May god grace your souls and grant serenity to your loved ones.
R.I.P. For the 96!
My dad was at that match, before i was born, but he was luckily on another stand, and im lucky that he didn't lose his life or get injured in the disaster, but i think he helped! From a Sheffield Wednesday fan! No haters! rest in peace:)
I hope the friends and family of these football fans are coping with their lives... God Bless them all
Hard to watch without tears creeping in to your eyes... Such a shame, a peaceful sporting event spoilt by disaster. RIP all and sympathy to friends and relatives of all involved.
I also have to give a big thank you to the 3 hospitals in yorkshire who took in the the dying and injured that day from the surgeons down to the nurses and stafff so again a big THANK YOU FROM ALL OF LIVERPOOL XXX
I think that there is an enormous difference between "letting the people without tickets in", and "opening the gate to let the crowd in (which happened to have both ticket and non-ticket holders in"
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God bless those who died.those kids who never came home.lost for words.everton fan
I was at Wembley that year for the Cup final as a staunch Evertonian and we were mixed with the Liverpool fans and it was a very sad day. Yes we lost the final but never before have I been pleased for Liverpool to have won the cup. It somehow felt like they deserved it. RIP the 96
It's horrible :( and those who lost their dear ones, im sorry. NEVER WALK ALONE
I have read the enquiry papers, read books, listened to fans who were there. I have studied quite a few different disasters, including the Bradford fire and many aviation disasters. They all have one thing in common, there is never one single cause, many things have to happen together, and if just one of those doesn't it can break the whole chain. But when people die, their judgement can be clouded by their emotions, which is a natural response to losing a loved one
kenny knew right from the start. shame the country listened to the lies instead.
Rest In Peace! So sad...
many lessons were learned from that. like having no fences, or if there is a fence there is a plan or a way on how to quickly remove it when needed. Filtering out non-ticket holders further away. more stadium security, more police presence. recently, free public viewing opportunities near the stadiums.
33:12 "Everyone was screaming at this policeman to open this gate - the one solitary gate at the front. "Open! Open! Open it!" He opened it and pushed these lads back in the ground! And there [i'm not sure about this sentence] was no one about. There was 3 or 4...5 lads who had jumped over to escape. He opened this gate and put them back in y'know like...why? Y'know I mean it's like pushing them back into the already crowded...and he closed the gate. 5 minutes later - that's when he opened the gate and things started y'know easing. But-"
Martin Keenan, Liverpool supporter
it was a sad day, one of the worse days of my life, i was only 13 and a wednesday fan i lived 10 minutes from hillsborough, it was weird that the worlds media was on my doorstep.....such a tragedy......96 R.I.P.X
I remember watching this (and the preceding events) live on RTE, as they broadcast many First Division and FA Cup matches live back then. It became evident - even from the distance involved - that something horrifying was happening from an early stage ....
On arriving through the turnstiles, the tunnel was dead ahead. It had a sign above saying 'Standing' with a massive letter 'B' on one side of it. A lot of fans had tickets saying "Standing", and a letter 'B' on it (confusingly referring to the exit gate they should leave through after the game). There was no obvious indication that the wing-pens had separate entrances, so naturally everyone assumed the tunnel was the only way to go. They needed someone to tell them that there was no room ahead.
I wish I could give more than a thumbs-up! I'm so glad Trevor Hicks hasn't given up on his search for justice! From the USA, You'll Never Walk Alone!
I've been involved in crowd congestion and it's a horrible feeling. It won't have been half as bad as these poor sods. Only those fans who arrived late will truly know what really happened.
Rest in Peace everyone of the 96 that passed that day - Chelsea fan:'(
R.I.P you will never walk alone
Im a fellow Evertonian and even to this day I still cannot believe this happened! JFT96 EFC
A great great shame....god awful day...let lessons be learned R.I.P 96
I was there that day in the Forest End and its a day i will certainly never forget!! and are sickened by whats come out this week but glad the truth has finally come out!!!
So sad. RIP the 96. From a Spurs fan.
RIP to those 96 people.
truly tragic
- MUFC Fan
RIP 96
There should have been an episode of panorama about this disaster from this same year
I feel that it was a mixture of things that caused this catastrophe:-
1. Duckfield's decision to open up the exit gates
2. Poor police control
3. A poorly designed stadium and
4. Over-zealous fans running & pushing to get into the stadium.
Men do tend to get too excited when it comes to football, to the point that they become dangerous in my opinion. I'm surprised this kind of thing hasn't happened more often tbh.
I don't think that this awful incident can be pinned on one person or one thing.
today my lecturer mentioned the disaster during his presentation. I saw a girl 2 rows in front of me turn to her friend and say i have no idea what that is. When we had all returned from a 20 minute break this girl was in tears
You never walk alone !!!
I think it shows more character in a man (David Cameron) to take the high road and apologise to something he never did just to satisfy the Liverpool fans and families, than to renege from guilt and responsibility completely like so many Liverpool fans that day were adamant about.
Tom Hicks is a prime example. Kelvin Mackenzie finally apologises and Tom Hicks says "too little, too late.", despite wanting an apology. He just proves that I am right, that "justice for the 96" means nothing.
nice to see everton fans sympathising, im an everton fan aswell, liverpool fan or not. RIP
You're right Scott - it wasn't the Owls' fault. i think that's the point you were really making when I re-read your post and I whole heartedly agree with that. We all love our grounds and expect that they have been properly maintained. I've always liked SWFC - it's a proud old club and a good one. A lot of grounds needed work back then and grounds all over England have improved since, including in Merseyside.
The warning signs were there in 1981 at Hillsboro.
Overcrowding in the '81 Semi Final for Spurs Vs Wolves led to crushing at the Lepping's Lane stand.
the reporter said that it was the second time for Dalglish obviously referring to Heysel but Dalglish was also in the stands the day of the Ibrox disaster. 1 time in your life would be enough to scar you permanently but 3 times.
RIP 96 forever in our minds JFT96
R.I.P from a Bradford City fan, We know how you all feel
Sorry, yes, my mistake. I was trying to think of a way to condense it all into a single CZcams post and didn't think to make that part explicitly clear: that side was grossly overcrowded.
24 years before......R.I.P
Well i hope yesterday's announcement can bring a part of relifef after 23 years, alot of covering up now put to bed, i hope the 96 will rest in peace and i pray them all and all their friends and families after what happend, God Bless them all and they all rest in peace.
God Bless
aidan
This isn't the end! This is only The start of things to come. Those poor family's who have endured this living nightmare for all these years, have my prayers & thoughts once more tonight.
Justice will follow now...LFC & everyone associated with the club & Hillsborough will never just "let it go". It will stay with us like a shadow for ever now.
Shankly had it so wrong about football been more important than life or death.
Rest in peace
RIP those killed that day. all they wanted to see a football game and lost there life. spurs fan but a football fan for life.
23 years has been too long. We have the truth, now we need justice. Justice for the 96.
Crushed by the force of people pushing into the stand
RIP 96. Remembering you #Leeds Fan
A lot of people arrived after 2pm (mainly official coach parties) due to roadworks on the roads coming from the North West and they were then herded straight down to the ground where there was already far too many of us outside, and inside the two pens. There was no police communication and from what some of my mates said they were told to carry on moving regardless of the crush outside.
rip guys.old & young, tragic.from a stoke fan
It doesn't matter whether you have a ticket or not if the police open a gate that bypasses the turnstile. A lot of fans with tickets didn't have their ticket checked because the main gate was opened which then means that a huge wave of people are entering the ground too quickly which in turn causes the crush. If fans are going through the turnstile in the correct manner there is a much slower trickle of fans entering the ground so a crush will not occur. Open the gate and the safeguards are gone
Taylor Report officially says that the fans were NOT to blame!
Wow. First reports on the BBC referred to "the trouble", ticketless fans and a broken turnstile. Within minutes, even the BBC, Moira Stewart no less, one of the most respected and trusted broadcasters, is sewing the seed that the fans were to blame.
The man in charge, David Duckenfield, was allowed to retire on a full pension due to ill health before his disciplinary came up.
The justice families want is to put right several things:
- the 3:15pm inquest cut-off meant that later events weren't examined, so theynever had a proper explanation of how/when their loved ones died.
- Nobody has ever been held to account for the cover up/smearcampaign.
Nobody has ever been punished for the incompetence that led to the disaster in the first place.
from another Man Utd fan I totally agree. Justice for the 96! We will never forget, government inquiry must happen! Justice must be given, answers must come out of the woodwork! 15th of April, 1989...6 months before I was born...
have you actually listened to any of the report published today?
R.I.P. from an Everton fan
The crush occurred because over three thousand people were crammed into a space suited for less than two thousand. (People who survived the crush always say there wasn't a sudden 'surge', but a very gradual, ominous build-up of pressure.) The speed at which it happened exacerbated the problem, but it didn't cause it. So even if everyone had entered by the turnstiles, something terrible was still going to happen in the central pens because nobody closed access to them when they were full.
I meant to add that whoever put Duckenfield in charge on that day when he had NO experience of crowd control in those numbers, should also be bought to book. It's bad enough that 96 fans died that day - but to then try and blame the fans instead of taking responsibility is effing despicable.
Well you're not aware that his name is Trevor. He was head of the family support group for most of the last 23 years and he has worked tirelessly for this outcome.
The evidence of Hillsborough, although not explicit as it now is, has been pretty much knownfor the past 10 years or more. Even when it became increasingly more obvious there had been a cover up and despite numerous opportunities, Mackenzie has never apologised. In fact, he is been very acerbic in his REFUSAL-yes refusal- to apologise
People weren't being pushed though, and they didn't really get a choice of which pens to go to; the entrances to the wing-pens were almost invisible because of poor signposting and the positions of the inner walls. It's sort of true a few people were 'swept' in, but the 'wave' that carried them didn't occur until they were already in the tunnel leading into the pens.
Im a sheffield wednesday fan and i find it sickening that they let that amount off people into the group RIP to those that died.
the old adage, "throw enough mud and some will stick" is sadly true. Some people will always believe the original lies, regardless of any inquiry or prosecution, but they are of no consequence.
every single fan who was pushing forward to get in to that stadium is partly to blame.
RIP to the 96----From a United fan. Too the people who say shit about the Munich disaster or other disasters, seriously sort yourself out, you should forget about who you support when these things happen, the people that have died in these accidents just wanted to watch or play sport they loved. Rivalry is good but not when people take it too far. Justice for the 96!!
An apology is still far too late. If I was Trevor Hicks I would not accept the apology either. An apology is the least Mackenzie should do and in no way makes up for what he did.
Hicks had every right to demand an apology and he has every right to denounce it as not good enough.
JFT 96 R.I.P from a united fan and hopefully we'll get justice for patrice evra
YNWA. The 96 will always be remembered.
poor poor people
I never said fans without tickets caused this! I don't think for a minute that they did. ALL I SAID was that fans without tickets got into the stadium and that couldn't have helped with the overcrowding. A devastated guy in a report was shown holding up his ticket saying that people without tickets were let in and that was a major mistake. Someone here said the fan was trying to put the blame on the authorities etc - I was just stating that the fan had a valid point and wasn't at fault!!
the worst case of human incompetence in the history of football happened on this day and every copper involved got off scot free.truly disgusting.
I'm a Spurs fan so don't really have any connection to Liverpool, but I find it amazing that after all this time there are still naive people blaming it on fans without tickets. If fans don't have tickets then don't let them in, you certainly don't open a gate. So we are saying that hundreds of ticketless fans just so happened to know that the gates were going to open so all stood at that end. Now back on the planet Earth. Police opened the gate, too many people went through too quickly, end of.
"The ticketless fans didn't exist" and "Plenty of tickets were still available that day" are two completely contradictory statements. The latter statement implies that the former is not true. I understand that the police opened the gate, but if you don't have a ticket, why would you go through unless you were trying to get in without a ticket?
Fair play to you fella.
Exactly, 23 years ago. It's taken 23 years for the truth to finally come out. It's easy for someone as stubborn as you to say 'move on with your life' but if you were in the families position and had to go through what they endured you would want justice too. You don't understand my point. The actions took by the police on that day isn't what I'm talking about. It's about how they tampered with the statements to shift blame on the fans when they were the innocent ones.
rest in peace to the 96 footy fans that died that day - everton fan :(
there probably were but no more fans would've travelled to this game without tickets than would've travelled with any other big club at the time. ticketless fans was NOT the problem here, it was the failure of the police, stewards, Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield Council, the British Government and the FA. This disaster was NOT the fault of fans in any way shape or form.
football in a way died with the 96 on this day.the game has never been and never will be the same again
Justice for the 96, it's a disgrace it's took so long for the report to be released, you fans never gave up tho, hope you get justice from a Manchester city fan
@lionscales Does it really matter if he is one day off?
I'm well aware of what Mr Hicks went through, I'm merely making the point that when you ask for someone to apologise and they finally do, only for you to say "too little, too late", it kind of defeats the point in asking and on serves to propagate this tragedy further. We know what happened now, and I only hope that we can finally drop it, instead of propagating this image of Liverpool fans everyone sees, further.
R.I.P 96
Some people realised the pens were overcrowded and tried to turn back but could not because of the huge volumes of people that were sweeping through at the same time. Had the gate not been opened they would have been able to turn back. There were more than "a few" people who were swept in. I believe that if gate "C" had not have been opened then fewer people would have died. Whilst I respect your opinion, I am entitled to mine, so lets just agree to disagree on this point
I've never been to Liverpool but from what I hear,its a magnificent city with even better people.When you see Everton fans at the Hillsborough memorial,paying their respscts,it tells me all I need to know about Liverpool.
Oh,and thats typical reporting from the BBC."Fans rushed through the gate".They should've got their facts straight before blaming someone!
You know, I (as an American), first heard of this, I just wrote it off as 'soccer hooliganism'. I'm ashamed of this quick judgement, after learning the details.
You really can't blame people for ignorance, if they were never shown the truth.
JFT96
THE TRUTH AT LAST
96 UNLAWFULLY KILLED
No, because has been proven to be NOT an accident. It was a preventable disaster that was predicted by fans and officials alike who were injured through crushing on the same Leppings lane terrace the previous year. The ground should NEVER have been used for a game of this magnitude. The FA knew this...the ground was not even issued a safety certificate as it was not considered safe! Also if it was an 'accident' police should have just apologised but instead they deliberately altered statements.
Justice still hasnt been served. those unruly Liverpool fans outside of the stadium who pushed their way to get in are still free now. but the guilt of 96 souls, well they have to bear it for the rest of their live
"What about the people who died who had tickets?" - That's not really a question. That's like asking 'Who is the 2 + 4?" It doesn't make any sense. This is an enormous tragedy, and Liverpool fans have done a fantastic job of shifting the blame away from the real perpetrators (those who didn't have tickets) and onto other people like Kelvin McKenzie, the Sun and the Police that day. This "justice" that fans are looking for doesn't exist in the real world, it's empty.
The difference is Liverpool fans didn't lie, liverpool fans didn't cover it up, Liverpool fans didn't give up on the injured and left more than half to die, when they could have been saved, i wonder if you would have called it and "unfortunate event" if it had been your child that had died, but could have been saved.