20th Anniversary - Hillsborough Disaster 1989

[Shaggy]

Today is a very sad day.

Justice for the 96.

[Roboklopp]

I'm finding it hard to read a lot of the articles/stories this morning, but I can only imagine what it must be like for the families and friends who lost loves ones. YNWA.

I cannot really read stuff like that in work. Not very good at keeping my feelings under wraps, but the Kenny & headline articles were excellent. The more personal stuff will be read at home.

[shelly]

I am not a liverpudlian or even a Brit, and I have realised to my horror that too many people have forgotten or have never known...

For the 96 that died RIP
For the families & friends and the survivors.. YNWA

May there be justice, accountability and closure...
May there also be remembrance always...

[lfcchris]

YNWA Justice For The 96!!!

Gone but never forgotten

[Red_Polo]

Difficult to find the words. To the 96 and the countless others Hillsborough affected, YNWA. Time will not diminish our solidarity.

[Joe King]

Regarder

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8000635.stm

If you have sound, even better.

[Joe King]

Alan Green:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7999000/7999837.stm

[bipjohn]

Most people here probably saw the service from Anfield. I was lucky enough to be there among 30000+ people.

Liverpudlians, Merseysiders and people from farther afield. I was in Birmingham with work today so drove North on the M6 around 12.00, I was driving wondering why there were literally hundreds of people in cars with Liverpool shirts on, then of course I realised. I got in to the KOP at around 2pm and watched as the 3 other stands filled up.

Then of course things started, Abide with Me, not our hymn, but a stirring moving piece of music, sung superbly.

Choirs of Angels, the bells, the names, all moving, simply moving. The MP's speech, clearly I dont agree with heckling him, but I think it was to be expected.

The silence, impeccable, what else.

The Kings' address, a religious passage, but we all know our religion.

Trevor Hicks..............I have 2 Daughters, how can this man cope with losing both of his at a football match? How can he cope? How can he cope?

Then our Hymn's, Fields of Anfield Road and Youll Never Walk Alone.

Absolute heartfelt anthems. The latter could have been written for the occasion.

Whatever happens, whatever goes between now and your last day, whatever troubles you have, whatever problems you have.

Remember the 96.

Remember their families and remember they have had to live hollow for 20 years wondering what might have been, what their son or daughter would have made of their lives? I really cant comprehend it. I just cant. Reading the lies, seeing the cover ups and the 'fixed' evidence unable to do anything about it, knowing the lies told about their passed on loved ones whose 'crime' which clearly isnt one, was going to a football match.

Remember, thats it, they left that morning as I do 40 or 50 times a year to watch my team and they never returned, they never came home, for that we must never forget them.

While the families want justice we all must want justice, its their sole decision.
While the families want seated stadiums we must want seated stadiums, its down to them.

[Joey Jones]

Most people here probably saw the service from Anfield. I was lucky enough to be there among 30000+ people.

Liverpudlians, Merseysiders and people from farther afield. I was in Birmingham with work today so drove North on the M6 around 12.00, I was driving wondering why there were literally hundreds of people in cars with Liverpool shirts on, then of course I realised. I got in to the KOP at around 2pm and watched as the 3 other stands filled up.

Then of course things started, Abide with Me, not our hymn, but a stirring moving piece of music, sung superbly.

Choirs of Angels, the bells, the names, all moving, simply moving. The MP's speech, clearly I dont agree with heckling him, but I think it was to be expected.

The silence, impeccable, what else.

The Kings' address, a religious passage, but we all know our religion.

Trevor Hicks..............I have 2 Daughters, how can this man cope with losing both of his at a football match? How can he cope? How can he cope?

Then our Hymn's, Fields of Anfield Road and Youll Never Walk Alone.

Absolute heartfelt anthems. The latter could have been written for the occasion.

Whatever happens, whatever goes between now and your last day, whatever troubles you have, whatever problems you have.

Remember the 96.

Remember their families and remember they have had to live hollow for 20 years wondering what might have been, what their son or daughter would have made of their lives? I really cant comprehend it. I just cant. Reading the lies, seeing the cover ups and the 'fixed' evidence unable to do anything about it, knowing the lies told about their passed on loved ones whose 'crime' which clearly isnt one, was going to a football match.

Remember, thats it, they left that morning as I do 40 or 50 times a year to watch my team and they never returned, they never came home, for that we must never forget them.

While the families want justice we all must want justice, its their sole decision.
While the families want seated stadiums we must want seated stadiums, its down to them.

Good post

[Paul.S]

Just watched "Hillsborough Remembered" (which is on Anytime Tv on Sky) the hardest hitting part was John Aldridge saying how he's whispered into one lads ear in the hospital that next time he comes to Anfield they'd make a fuss over him, get him a shirt etc. Only to be told by the doctor that his life support machine was being switched off that afternoon.

[rnm]

I don't know what to say really, just today has been as sad as every year. I had a ticket for the game, but my Dad said I couldn't go as we were having a special family day watching the match. I was a regular at the Kop, I went there quite a lot (every week)...and to see what was happening just broke my heart.

Week in week out I was picked up as I fell in the Kop and reached out to help others as they fell and swayed throughout the games knowing that we were together supporting the team and each other.

My memories in the aftermath was a mixture of sickness with the media and the strength of the city.

Do I feel thankful for not being there, through the years its more been a sense of regret that I wasnt there to help my brothers and sisters of the Kop.

For the families of the 96, You'll Never Walk Alone.

[Tee]

Without trying to put a dampener on things, but were Hicks or Gillett in attendance yesterday? If not it is the ultimate show of disrespect IMO.

[EwarWoo]

Without trying to put a dampener on things, but were Hicks or Gillett in attendance yesterday? If not it is the ultimate show of disrespect IMO.

If they attended they're trying to get positive exposure out of a tragedy if they didn't it's disrespectful. I'm sure whatever happened you'll find people of one of those opinions.

Better to leave 'em out of it. They couldn't win either way and no-one wins by lingering on that which is insignificant at the moment.

[Shaggy]

Has anyone seen the front page of today's Mirror?

JUSTICE FOR THE 96

...followed by an editorial which urges the Government to finally allow justice to prevail. I can't help but wonder if there's a thinly-veiled agenda behind this...what with their rivalry with The S*n, but maybe I'm just being cynical.

Inviting an MP to yesterday's service was a rotten idea in principle but it worked out in the end - with the raw outpouring of feeling that interrupted his speech proving a very powerful moment. Hopefully this is just the start.

[Liverpool]

Without trying to put a dampener on things, but were Hicks or Gillett in attendance yesterday? If not it is the ultimate show of disrespect IMO.

Better they stayed away, they arent welcome here.