The Hillsborough Disaster, where were you?

[Dazzlerscfc]

Hey, having an interest in the history of english football I couldn't help but notice a couple of articles on the Hillsborough disaster, it sounds like a fucked up question, but where were you when you heard about the Hillsborough disaster? ( assuming you were even born then )

[stennyman]

You might get more replies if you had posted this on the main board.I was watching Stoke away at Bournemouth,we won 1-0 with a Paul Ware goal.

[mistersausage]

Mar 1, 2012 22:27:01 GMT @stennyman said:

You might get more replies if you had posted this on the main board.I was watching Stoke away at Bournemouth,we won 1-0 with a Paul Ware goal.

Same as me mate. I heard as we were on our way back from the game. I think we'd done Oxford, Watford, and Bournemouth, all away, withing about 8 days I think it was.

Three adults in a mazda rx7 with carrier bags of ale and whisky doing those miles ;D

Stokies on the road.

[Northy]

At Bournemouth watching Stoke, I was living near Pompey at the time think I heard it at the train station

[Arthurdollar]

I was working by Tower Bridge in London, Butlers Wharf. We had just knocked off work to watch the game in a local Pub.

[LL Cool Dave]

At home, I'd have been 13.

Clearest memory is people using the advertising boards as stretchers. Just horrible.

[Deleted]

At Bournemouth.

I remember hearing someone with a radio saying that the semi at Hillsborough had been abandoned and thinking it was a bit odd, then the drip feed of what had happened came through on the train on the way back.

[Plain Jane]

I remember that day so clearly, it was a gorgeous sunny day and I was in the garden painting the shed for my Dad listening to Radio Stoke. Dad shouted me in and we sat watching the TV in horror.

I was 16, just about to leave school. When I got into school on the Monday we were all called straight into an assembly which was unusual. We were told one of the boys in year 8 had been killed. Paul Murray from Meir, he had just turned 14 and the match was his birthday treat. I knew him vaguely but the whole school was affected for some time.

[stokeylad]

I was still sitting comfy in my dads testicles.

[stokeylad]

Mar 2, 2012 11:09:13 GMT Plain Jane said:

I remember that day so clearly, it was a gorgeous sunny day and I was in the garden painting the shed for my Dad listening to Radio Stoke. Dad shouted me in and we sat watching the TV in horror.

I was 16, just about to leave school. When I got into school on the Monday we were all called straight into an assembly which was unusual. We were told one of the boys in year 8 had been killed. Paul Murray from Meir, he had just turned 14 and the match was his birthday treat. I knew him vaguely but the whole school was affected for some time.

Did he go sandon high school? I remember seeing a plaque in the main office about a young lad from the school who died in the disaster.

[bignickhowes]

I wasn't born yet

[Plain Jane]

Mar 2, 2012 11:15:05 GMT stokeylad said:

Mar 2, 2012 11:09:13 GMT Plain Jane said:

I remember that day so clearly, it was a gorgeous sunny day and I was in the garden painting the shed for my Dad listening to Radio Stoke. Dad shouted me in and we sat watching the TV in horror.

I was 16, just about to leave school. When I got into school on the Monday we were all called straight into an assembly which was unusual. We were told one of the boys in year 8 had been killed. Paul Murray from Meir, he had just turned 14 and the match was his birthday treat. I knew him vaguely but the whole school was affected for some time.

Did he go sandon high school? I remember seeing a plaque in the main office about a young lad from the school who died in the disaster.

He did yes.

[NG4POTTERS]

I was outside rumbelows in the wulfrun shopping centre in wolverhampton trying to get a peek at the latest scores. I thought i was witnessing a mass outbreak of aggro at the time. Very sad day.

[juggusheadus]

Sat at my future in laws watching it unfold on the TV !

[sirgreenhoff]

I was in the bar in the Woodshutts pub (Bass house) getting razzled !
(I did start to sober up pretty quickly when the news started to come through over the tranny)
For our younger viewers ........ that's a radio !!

[lawrieleslie]

Mar 2, 2012 9:47:39 GMT @sifuluke said:

At Bournemouth.

I remember hearing someone with a radio saying that the semi at Hillsborough had been abandoned and thinking it was a bit odd, then the drip feed of what had happened came through on the train on the way back.

That was a topsy turvy season for us. We finished 13th on 59pts in old div 2. But that game vs Bournemouth was our only win in the last 14 games of the season. On that day I was decorating the hall listening to the Hillsboro game on radio.

[mistersausage]

Mar 2, 2012 19:09:25 GMT lawrieleslie said:

Mar 2, 2012 9:47:39 GMT @sifuluke said:

At Bournemouth.

I remember hearing someone with a radio saying that the semi at Hillsborough had been abandoned and thinking it was a bit odd, then the drip feed of what had happened came through on the train on the way back.

That was a topsy turvy season for us. We finished 13th on 59pts in old div 2. But that game vs Bournemouth was our only win in the last 14 games of the season. On that day I was decorating the hall listening to the Hillsboro game on radio.

The game was shit and we didn't look like winning until the goal went in ;D

[Dazzlerscfc]

Thanks for the replies

Couldn't help but shed a tear over the 96 who lost their lives, especially after seeing the everton fans sing "You'll never walk alone" with the liverpool fans in this video.



R.I.P to the 96

[JoeinOz]

[steve66]

Mar 1, 2012 21:47:27 GMT Dazzlerscfc said:

Hey, having an interest in the history of english football I couldn't help but notice a couple of articles on the Hillsborough disaster, it sounds like a fucked up question, but where were you when you heard about the Hillsborough disaster? ( assuming you were even born then )

Up Hanley duck shopping with the missus,saw it in TV shop window's

[tomsviews]

I also wasn't born.

[skelman]

I was at the other semi-final at Villa Park - Everton v Norwich

Most unusually I was in a box that day. From what I can recall the KO at Hillsborough had been delayed as there were still so many supporters left outside who couldn't get in in time. Our game kicked off & then we saw the scenes at Hillsborough unfolding on a tv monitor. We all knew immediately that something devastating was happening.

People knew that others were dying in the Leppings Lane End. Advertising boards were being used as stretchers & there were badly injured & traumatised people all over the pitch & on the terraces/stands. There were ambulances & red cross vehicles on the pitch but the scale of the disaster meant the emergency services were absolutely swamped

We missed the first 10-15 mins of our match watching the appalling scenes unfold on the monitor. We didn't know until later the full extent of the disaster or what had caused it

[WEGSCFC]

watching stoke beat bournmouth 1-0 paul ware screamer !!!stopped in Dorchester got ratted mar lady had to drive back.R.I.P 96

[lawrieleslie]

This weekend is also the 66th anniversary of the Burnden Park Disaster where 33 football fans also went innocently to watch a football game and never returned home. RIP to them.

[swampySCFC]

I was at the Bournemouth game. Listened to it unfold after the game.

[greenbaize]

I was playing pool at the premeir pool club in hanley when the news flash came on and the coveridge went live rip 96

[Stoke-on-Toronto]

I don't remember because I was 3 and at the time I wasn't too bothered by it.

[offthewall]

I was in a pub in West London, it was a quiet afternoon.

[Orbs]

I was 16 and because we were at Bournemouth I went Eastwood Hanley instead. It was the usual walk for me got the Proctors 16 from Leek or the 232 Tean bus from Cellarhead and got off at the bottom of Limekiln bank and walked to Joiners Square.

Same as someone else said early reports said it violence - how wrong they could be.

[rosco]

-2 years old.