[Boycott]

I give it a good chance that there is something about this somewhere in here so pardon my re post in advance!

"The Hillsborough disaster occurred on 15 April 1989 at the FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough Stadium, Sheffield, England.

A crush resulted in the deaths of 96 people and injuries to 766 others. The incident has since been blamed primarily on the police for letting too many people enter the stadium. It remains the worst stadium-related disaster in British history, and one of the world's worst football disasters."

Read more at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

There is a video of the live coverage of the game on YouTube. You can see that players kept playing for several minutes while the disaster was taking place.

[butterfly]

Those faces

[Bastet]

Hard-hitting pics. I'm a claustrophobic and I almost died of heart attack gawking at those images. Good post anyhow, I always appreciate any pic set posted in this section

[Vedderman]

On one hand, I recoil in horror from the gross logistical mismanagement that resulted in these senseless deaths.

On the other, I see a bleating herd of human sheeple, voluntarily allowing themselves to be packed into a pen like livestock. For what? Fucking football.

Blame the cops, blame the administrators, blame whoever you want to blame for this travesty, but ultimately everyone of those people would have survived the day if they'd stayed home to watch the game on telly or at the pub with some friends. Or if they just chose to sit and read a fucking book instead.

I have never placed myself anywhere near to this sort of completely preventable disaster because the idea of being jammed in with so much collected human filth is so abhorrent to me that I'd sooner shoot myself in the fucking head.

Anyone who willingly follows a meandering drunken herd into a fucking livestock pen for any reason whatsoever has eliminated any chance at sympathy from me.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

[Kelseecat65]

Originally Posted by Vedderman ↗

Or if they just chose to sit and read a fucking book instead.

[Vedderman]

Originally Posted by Kelseecat65 ↗

It's true, though! One spring my wife and I drove to a famous theme park for vacation. It was two states away and took about 7 hours of driving to reach.

When we arrived, the line of cars to get in was over 6 miles long and not moving. You think I sat in that line on a hope and a prayer? Nope. Didn't matter that we'd driven 7 hours just to go. Wife and I looked at one another. She said "Dinner?" I responded "Yuuuup." We did a U-turn out of the line and went to a nice eatery for dinner, then got a hotel room for the night and drove home the next morning, never once looking back at the filthy line of rubes growing older as they waited for their turn in the queue.

No fucking lines and livestock pens and cattle cars for me, thank you.

Anyone who had the sense that day at Hillsborough to look at that debacle and say "Fuck this, I'm off to the pub instead." probably remembered for the rest of their lives how good that beer tasted.

[Azimuth]

How horrific. While watching about 5 of the docs on youtube about this fuck-up, I really had to stop myself from talking to the screen. (and finally just didn't stop). Every time they'd open yet another gate, I was like "What, In, The, Fuck you Assholes??" Watching them perform CPR on several kids at once on the pitch was just nerve-wracking.

[galaxia]

looks like sheep crammed into those transport trucks on the way to slaughter

[Spiffyfable]

Now that's what I call Standing Room Only

[kellyhound]

The South Yorkshire police officer who commanded the 1989 FA Cup semifinal at Hillsborough when 96 people died has admitted that, as the disaster was happening, he lied about a crucial order he gave to open a large exit gate and allow hundreds of supporters in.

Former Ch Supt David Duckenfield, who has admitted at the new inquests into the deaths that he was inexperienced when he took on the job of football match commander, apologised unreservedly to the bereaved families of the 96 victims for the lie. About 200 were in the Warrington courtroom, listening in silence as Duckenfield made his admission.

He also admitted he made a serious mistake on the day in not thinking about where the supporters coming through the opened exit gate would go when they were inside the stadium. Duckenfield acknowledged that hundreds of them went straight down a tunnel facing them, which led to the overcrowded central pens of the Leppings Lane terrace, where the lethal crush happened. He also accepted it was a mistake not to have closed off that tunnel to direct fans away from those pens.

In the courtroom, a converted space on a Warrington business park, some among the rows of families wept as they heard Duckenfield admit to his “serious mistake,” and the lie he told about the Liverpool supporters. For the families, it has been almost 26 years since they lost their loved ones at the football match on a sunny day in April, and almost exactly a year since these new inquests began on March 31 last year, the previous one, having been quashed in 2012. Duckenfield, the senior officer in command of the match despite his limited experience, admitted his mistakes following months of evidence heard from his own senior and junior officers, and supporters who attended the game including bereaved parents, about the events which led to the horror of the day.

Duckenfield did not admit that his lie involved him telling Graham Kelly, then secretary of the Football Association, that Liverpool supporters had forced or stormed the exit gate, as Kelly and other witnesses have testified. But Duckenfield admitted that, when Kelly came to see him in the Hillsborough control room at 3:15pm on the day of the semifinal, 15 April 1989, he said fans had gained “unauthorised access” through the gate. Duckenfield did not tell Kelly that, in fact, he had ordered the gate to be opened, at 2:52pm, to alleviate serious congestion outside the turnstiles to the Leppings Lane end.