Lincoln Blue Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 I was playing golf in Lincolnshire. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oafcjacob Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 there is no way standing should be brought back...are we forgetting 96 people died grounds are much safer now for families and kids Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsleOfWightBlue Posted April 17, 2009 Share Posted April 17, 2009 (edited) I was in the chaddy end with my two young kids watching the Sunderland game. A guy next to me had a radio and mentioned that Liverpool fans were causing trouble at the cup game - By half time all kinds of stories were filtering around. We drove back to the Isle of Wight and it was only when we were on the ferry that we met a couple of Liverpool fans and they told me and a couple of fans from other clubs what had really happened. One lad from Sandown said he had screamed at police to get the fences down and the gate open as people were being crushed and that was 10 mins before kick off - He said that the cops were just pushing people back and were just not interested. He said he reckoned there were about 40 dead and maybe another 100 injured Dreadful day - I look back at some of the games Ive been to in my life and think Goddd it could so easily have happend at so and so match. Some of the fences that penned us in were nothing but death traps. How many of us remember the spinning razor pointed metal barbs on top of the fences at the old Goldstone ground or the razor barb wire at Selhurst Park to name just two places. We were treated like scum and cattle then. If you were a football fan you were the lowest of the low. Expected to pay stupid prices we were escorted to and from many grounds then expected to dig deep again for poor food and filthy toilets. It took 96 people to die for the claret swiggers to open their eyes and do something.....Not forgetting Bradford not long before. Remember where I was that day ....Oh yes I remember Edited April 17, 2009 by IsleOfWightBlue Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underdog Posted April 18, 2009 Author Share Posted April 18, 2009 it was two days before my 18th.... I was having my 18th do a week after, so I had decided not to go to BP that day but had to go into Manny to get a decent dress. didn't know anything about it untill we got back into Oldham. Saw it all unfolding in a tv shop on the corner of George st/high st in Oldham town centre, it was roughly where the Abbey National bank in now....remember the road use to curve from the High st down into george st near the undeground subway across from the regent pub. Bloomin eck how places change.... really wanted to go to the away game the weekend after but couldn't. If i remember rightly, they just charged a donation on the day rather than an entrance fee. So near my birthday I always remember How could the authorities believed it was crowd trouble????......I will never know.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
outoftheblue Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I was at BP, and clearly remember the 'Crowd trouble at Hillsborough' tannoy messages. I thought "Here we go again" as I had been unfortunate enough to be at the European Cup Final at Heysel in '85 when 39 fans died 30 feet away from me. Liverpool have always been my second team, and whenever it didn't clash with Latics I'd watch them, but after Heysel I hadn't watched them live for 4 years. The friend that I had always travelled to Liverpool games with had offered me a ticket for the Hillsborough game, and I carefully considered it before deciding not to waste my season ticket at BP. When I got home after the match I said to my girlfriend "I'm glad I didn't go to Sheffield - I hear the idiots have been kicking off again", she just said "No it's worse than that - look at the tv". The lad who offered me a ticket wasn't injured, but it could so easily have been a different outcome for me, and having witnessed the terrible scenes at Heysel, I really felt for those who had endured Hillsborough. You tend to appreciate the reasons for all seaters more when you've seen incidents like this, but I reckon the German ideas for safe standing are a great step forward in creating atmosphere. BTW, does anyone remember an incident at BP not long after Hillsborough, when we were playing a night match and it got so tight in the Chaddy end that the police opened a gate and allowed a large group of fans to walk round the pitch and into the RRE? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsleOfWightBlue Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 That does come to mind...I also remember when the chad was packed out for the West Ham Littlewoods QF 1st leg. It was really risky and along with another guy we insisted the stewards unlock the Lookers Paddock fence so we could go in there instead. I fairness to the police it was them who inisted the steward do just that and several people breathed a sigh of relief when the gate was opened and more space created Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zorrro Posted April 20, 2009 Share Posted April 20, 2009 I was only 8 at the time, but I remember the Chaddy being packed to the rafters. I was stood on a milk crate. Them were the days... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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