[shoottokill]

so many crazy hairstyles.

[PTSD Is My Life]

I remember this being on the TV one day when I got back from the pub....bloody fencing had been put up due to the pitch invasions and to stop inter club fighting....

It was a deciding factor in making all major stadiums remove the standing areas and making whole stadiums seating only.

[Sharon]

Terrible, I vaguely recall it being reported on TV when I was 13

[VOYEUR]

The police were blamed....but, hundreds of drunken fucking Liverpool fans rushed the closed gates, the police panicked, opened the gates.....result, drunken scum pushing from the rear....they go mad if you blame them, but it was them....scum.

[pingumaria]

Originally Posted by 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.

[pingumaria]

....are you for real?? there were children mixed into that "meandering drunken herd", what a prick semi essay to write.

You don't half like the sound of your own voice..."my wife and I....bla bla bla."
Families were torn apart by this and loved ones lost who's only wish was to watch their beloved Liverpool play.

R.i.p. all those who perished at Hillsborough.

[Vedderman]

Originally Posted by pingumaria ↗

Families were torn apart by this and loved ones lost who's only wish was to watch their beloved Liverpool play.

Beloved Liverpool?

Dragging your 'precious children' into a livestock cage full of howling, drunken hooligans just so you can watch a fucking ballgame seems like a sensible course of action in your mind? And you ask me if I'M for real?

There are a small handful of things in this world that I would willingly die or put myself and my family at risk for.

'Beloved Liverpool' is not one of them.

[spudigitti]

Was at home that Saturday watching the event live on BBC sports.... Was only a lad of 12 and I have no problem admitting I balled my eyes out for 2 days, I was so excited all day about the match and that was awfully sad, some of the managers and players retired soon after....

[spudigitti]

Never walk alone

[gimlet]

I hate to admit it, but it was fun pushing forward in a school mob when we were 13 years old. The WHO concert catastrophy had just happened in Cincinnatti (11 dead) and so everyone would push forward as we waited in front of doors yelling "The Who - go for it!". A teacher would eventually open the doors saying "what the hell is going on here?!" and a pile of people would be extruded thru the doorway, some clutching bent limbs and/or crying.

This was the Chicago suburbs in 1979...