Hillsborough

[SERVO2]

Has anyone seen the ESPN doc about this 30 for 30 or something? Cant be shown over here until after the inquests but does seemed to have changed opinions in the US!!

Cheers

Rach

[Chazza]

Has anyone seen the ESPN doc about this 30 for 30 or something? Cant be shown over here until after the inquests but does seemed to have changed opinions in the US!!

Cheers

Rach

http://film.lfc.vn/espn-30-for-30-hillsborough/

[McDermotX]

Yep....watched it the other day. Hard to watch all the same.

[EwarWoo]

It's quite telling that a US series, leading up to the world cup with stories of football glory, leads with this story.

Justice must come, it's not just people in the UK now aware, it's people across the world.

Not watched it yet, will definitely do so later, but much respect to ESPN if what I've read about it is true.

[TheElephantMan]

I just watched the ESPN documentary, wondering what people's awareness and perception is of the Hillsborough tragedy outside the UK and especially outside of Europe? The ESPN documentary is excellent - nothing we didn't already know, but very well put together.

[BrooklynRed]

Watched the entire thing twice. It is a great film that is focused on the truth. Many heroes profiled, especially the families who are so willing to tell their stories.

One thing I will say, I feel so much closer to the club and supporters having seen it. Every fan knows the story and the lies, but to see this in the middle of the title push, it is an incredible feeling of closeness. Devastating film, mostly because the truth is SO OBVIOUS, and for it to take decades of lies and abuse of Liverpool fans to come to the BEGINNING of the process of accountability, just incredibly tragic.

Again, I feel all supporters know this story, but the authorities are so disgusting and the fact that it is STILL unresolved despite everyone knowing the truth... brutal.

YNWA 96 and families.

[TheElephantMan]

The police officers interviewed are clearly totally traumatised by their experiences, their inclusion provides some balance and credibility to the documentary. I particularly liked the police officer's statement at the end where he said that he might be a washed-up old bobby, but the cover-up was a criminal act perverting the course of justice and that he hated criminals. Sometimes I get a bit carried away with my hatred of the police and forget that most of them are decent people.

[Charly]

http://film.lfc.vn/espn-30-for-30-hillsborough/

The sound cuts out for me around 1h31.

Does anyone have an alternative?

[TheElephantMan]

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tw6Dkyh5oNc"]Hillsborough | 30 for 30: Soccer Stories | ESPN Films - YouTube[/ame]

[Charly]

It looks like there is a 3 hour version on the vimeo player

[Red_Polo]

Yep I had the same problem. Second version is same content trimmed down.

[destinydude]

I saw it two days ago. Very harrowing. Especially the second half where the families speak about the first few years as to what happened post the tragedy and how they were treated.

[TheElephantMan]

The 3 hour version seems to just have an hour and ten minutes of nothing tagged on at the end.

[Red_Polo]

The 3 hour version seems to just have an hour and ten minutes of nothing tagged on at the end.

Ahhhh ok. In that case Charly just pick up where you leave of with the second version, as I did.

Was wondering how it could go for another 90nins from that point!

[Mello]

I just watched the ESPN documentary, wondering what people's awareness and perception is of the Hillsborough tragedy outside the UK and especially outside of Europe? The ESPN documentary is excellent - nothing we didn't already know, but very well put together.

I had a couple of fans of other clubs in the office talk about it in the US. They didn't really know much about Hillsborough other than it happened. This opened their eyes to what these families and the city have gone though. If that's common, it's educated a lot of people here on the real truth of what happened.