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Post by Malcolm Clarke on May 28, 2015 16:30:36 GMT
Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the Heysel disaster and it is appropriate to spend a moment or two in respectful remembrance of the 39 football fans, mostly Juventus fans, who lost their lives in what was undoubtedly one of the darkest hours of english football. I will be in the stadium in Brussels ( now completely rebuilt and renamed) representing English supporters in a ceremony led by the Mayor of Brussels. It is important that we don't forget, and that English fans are represented.
In starting this thread, my intention is solely to remind fellow Stokies that it is the 30th anniversary, and ask that we spend a brief moment in remembrance. It is definitely not my intention or wish to start an anti-Liverpool supporters thread, which I think would be unnecessary and somewhat tasteless. We know what happened. What is important is that we respectfully remember those fellow fans who died, and that we don't forget the lessons.
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Post by wizzardofdribble on May 28, 2015 19:40:52 GMT
I remember watching the horrors of Heysel unfold when all those supporters were crushed to death when that wall collapsed. Unbelievably the game was still played.
Let us also remember who was responsible.
And it wasn't the police.
RIP
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 19:43:51 GMT
It's taken one post for it to turn into exactly what Malcolm didn't want this thread to.
Tut tut tut.
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Post by Deleted on May 28, 2015 20:00:20 GMT
I remember watching the horrors of Heysel unfold when all those supporters were crushed to death when that wall collapsed. Unbelievably the game was still played. Let us also remember who was responsible. And it wasn't the police. RIP Why the sly dig about Hillsborough when the thread is clearly about Heysel? Fucking grow up man......... |
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Post by mrlovepants on May 28, 2015 20:11:38 GMT
Currently available is a short program from the BBC The Ghosts of Heysel. It was broadcast on Thu, 28 May 15 and is half an hpour long but worth a listen. In a special edition of World Football Alan Green travels to Brussels exactly thirty years after the Heysel Stadium disaster which killed 39 people. We hear eyewitness accounts from the players Marco Tardelli and Alan Kennedy, the fans, pitch-side photographer Eamonn McCabe and former UEFA President Lennart Johansson as we remember the Ghosts of Heysel. www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/wswf |
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Post by choppyc on May 28, 2015 20:20:17 GMT
Good luck tomorrow Malcolm,theres no doubt it will be a very emotionally draining day for you mate.
It is so tempting to read the details of tragedies going back as far as the Burnden Park Disaster and think these commemorations,although worthy,mean nothing to us
with our comparatively 'safe' match day experience.
I hope that the fans too young to remember Heysel, Ibrox, Valley Parade, Hillsborough and other tragedies never compartmentalise these events as just 'history', although the years ARE passing by with undue haste since they occurred, they are all still relevant to our attending live football today.
The European Cup final used to be a big old event during my childhood,and back in them distant days, I for one used to always be an armchair fan of the English participants, I think it was an obscene decision for the match to go ahead,whatever the 'safety' reasons spouted at the time.
RIP to the 39 fans who went to a football match and never returned.
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Post by craig67 on May 28, 2015 20:32:47 GMT
RIP to the 39 who never came home.
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Post by Okie Stokie. on May 28, 2015 20:37:23 GMT
R.I.P. The 39.
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Post by JoeinOz on May 29, 2015 0:12:36 GMT
Today is 30 years since the Heysel disaster. The conclusion of many years of habitual violence and mismanagement from authorities.RIP.
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Post by craig67 on May 29, 2015 0:50:13 GMT
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Post by partickpotter on May 29, 2015 5:22:26 GMT
A day to remember the dead, their families and friends.
39 people went to watch a game of football and didn't come home.
Something I will never forget.
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Post by lawrieleslie on May 29, 2015 5:55:21 GMT
Today is 30 years since the Heysel disaster. The conclusion of many years of habitual violence and mismanagement from authorities.RIP. Unfortunately Jo it wasn't the conclusion though. That came some four years later at Hillsborough. Sadly it took 3 disasters and 191 football fans lives, in the space of four years, "to bring violence and mismanagement from authorities" to its conclusion. |
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Post by roostershair on May 29, 2015 5:58:04 GMT
Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the Heysel disaster and it is appropriate to spend a moment or two in respectful remembrance of the 39 football fans, mostly Juventus fans, who lost their lives in what was undoubtedly one of the darkest hours of english football. I will be in the stadium in Brussels ( now completely rebuilt and renamed) representing English supporters in a ceremony led by the Mayor of Brussels. It is important that we don't forget, and that English fans are represented. In starting this thread, my intention is solely to remind fellow Stokies that it is the 30th anniversary, and ask that we spend a brief moment in remembrance. It is definitely not my intention or wish to start an anti-Liverpool supporters thread, which I think would be unnecessary and somewhat tasteless. We know what happened. What is important is that we respectfully remember those fellow fans who died, and that we don't forget the lessons. Totally agree. Football is a brotherhood and respect should be shown. RIP the 39 |
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Post by jeycov on May 29, 2015 8:43:38 GMT
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Post by GlennA on May 29, 2015 9:59:46 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 10:08:40 GMT
Jesus H Krishna. What a cock - I'm glad the journalist included his words when the normal protocol would be to say he was unavailable for comment. |
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Post by Deleted on May 29, 2015 10:09:25 GMT
Phil Neal...Bow your head in shame you utter utter bell end. |
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Post by StokieSC on May 29, 2015 11:14:39 GMT
I remember watching the horrors of Heysel unfold when all those supporters were crushed to death when that wall collapsed. Unbelievably the game was still played. Let us also remember who was responsible. And it wasn't the police. RIP  Here you go fella ... |
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Post by BraveSirRobin on May 29, 2015 11:34:32 GMT
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Post by StokieSC on May 29, 2015 11:39:26 GMT
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Post by ihaveadream on May 29, 2015 12:44:43 GMT
RIP to the 39 who never returned home
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Post by JoeinOz on May 29, 2015 13:40:57 GMT
For a long time Juventus supporters resented the way Platini celebrated his winning goal. |
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Post by Staffsoatcake on May 29, 2015 13:43:26 GMT
RIP the 39.
Rot in Hell Phil Neal.
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Post by JoeinOz on May 29, 2015 13:52:59 GMT
Grobelaar has said himself it was wrong to play the game. But as he said, footballers don't have principles or opinions. They do whatever they are told and that's that.
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Post by Gods on May 29, 2015 13:57:57 GMT
Sure Phil Neal has to earn a crust like anyone else but, boy that's a bad one, he has come up way short of the lowest bar of acceptable standards there. It's like somewhere he lost all sense of the gravity of what took place in his thirst for some funding, a real stinker  RIP the 39 |
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Post by JoeinOz on May 29, 2015 14:00:41 GMT
Sure Phil Neal has to earn a crust like anyone else but, boy that's a bad one, he has come up way short of the lowest bar of acceptable standards there RIP the 39 Most memorable for being a mardarse because he thought he was going get the manager job when Dalglish got it. Now there's something else as well. |
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Post by CalgaryPotter on May 29, 2015 14:49:44 GMT
I remember one of my friends standing outside his house on the street with his head in his hands. He was a Liverpool fan and was speechless, couldn't get an ounce of sense out of him. We were 14.
RIP to those that lost their lives and thankfully their lives were not lost without changes being made.
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Post by staffsvilla on May 29, 2015 15:33:23 GMT
i was there that night and the memories of what happened may fade but are always there when the European cup final comes up every year, i have my own eyewitness opinion of that night but this thread is not the place
RIP
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Post by britsabroad on May 29, 2015 17:30:07 GMT
RIP the 39, its a disgrace its been largely swept under the carpet all these years.
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Post by citynumberten on May 29, 2015 21:04:45 GMT
Phil Neal is a piece of shit. Credit to the journo for publishing it in its entirity to show everyone just what a special kind of cunt he is. RIP to the Heysel 39. We all know what happened and what caused it but the simple fact is that, regardless of blame, 39 people went to the footy and never came home and that should never be forgotten.
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