I still vividly remember watching those scenes unfold.
I will stand in silence tonight with my dad and my friends, remembering 96 innocent football fans and include in my thoughts my thanks that it is not me, my family, friends or any of you, that others are having to pay their respects for.
i'm a painter and decorator,was doing a nice little outside job in deep dark lincolnshire today,but at 3pm i went into the back garden for a few mins just to sit and think.......football fans are football fans and that includes palace and millwall......you go along to watch a game of football and die..words fail me
I imagine most people get annoyed at the exposure it gets because it's Liverpool, a club whose fans wind up nearly every other football fan in the country, but honestly disconnect that, this is about 96 football fans who died at a match, and in the 25 years since, those who covered up their involvement in it and tried to scapegoat the footie fans have lied and dragged their feet at every turn. We're 5 Prime Ministers later and those responsible for the cover-up are still lying their faces off, that's why every football fan should either get behind JFT96 or if they can't be bothered to educate themselves or open their eyes as to what's going on then they shouldn't attack those who do want justice and want to make sure this never happens again. As much as a lot of people give Liverpool grief, if it was 96 Charlton fans lying dead in Sheffield, they'd get behind us too.
I think what people do get annoyed at a small minority of LFC fans who stick #JFT96 on literally everything eg on Twitter
In fact most things LFC fans do on Twitter winds me up but there we go, but JFT96 belongs to every football fan, not just one club, as it could have easily happened to any team.
I thought it was pretty decent. Only heard one shout of Come on you Reds from some idiot half way through, some early clapping which soon stopped and my phone receiving a text. I've witnessed many worse.
Our fans were incapable of observing a silence for Remembrance Day if I remember rightly earlier in the season so doubtless it will turn into applause tonight too.
Us drunk hoodlems in the away end managed it on Saturday, but you're right we won't be able to today.
Silly comment.
I'll give you that it was an improvement on the Remembrance Day "silence" but a few tossers still clapped at the start and some idiot shouted out Come On You reds in the middle.
I understand why people break out into a minutes applause now.
If just one person shouts out (as a couple did) it does kind of stick in my head. I seem to remember minutes silences that were spoilt more than ones that were not.
Glad we applauded for a whole minute for Remembrance Day now because I would have been wanting to kill anyone who shouted during that (again, bound to be some moron, in fact I thought there was and that's what triggered the clapping?)
I remember going up to Andield a few years back when we played Liverpool in the league cup, it was a midweek game , and I can't remember if there was a memorial or something with the names and ages of people that had died, I don't know why but there was one that stuck with me of a young lad that was 14 years that had died going to a football match.
Only then did I realize that it had ripped the heart out of the club and the city,and I don't think Liverpool has ever recovered.
On Saturday when I was watching soccer Saturday with my 14 year old son and they showed footage of what happened at Hillborough it brought it all back and I was in bits, my son said to me dad what's wrong , and I said because those people went to a football match and never came back son, it should never have happened.
Forget footballing rivalries, this should not have happened, and the cover up by the police and newspapers is a stain against our country and an insult to the average man.
given the queues outside the turnstiles, 50+ each turnstile after the teams had come out, and the amount of people coming late, i thought it was very well observed.
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I suppose you could hum.
I will stand in silence tonight with my dad and my friends, remembering 96 innocent football fans and include in my thoughts my thanks that it is not me, my family, friends or any of you, that others are having to pay their respects for.
They died at a football match
Dignity costs fuck all folks
I think what people do get annoyed at a small minority of LFC fans who stick #JFT96 on literally everything eg on Twitter
@lfctillidiegerrard4life tweeted: eating a big mac #lfc #ynwa #jft96
In fact most things LFC fans do on Twitter winds me up but there we go, but JFT96 belongs to every football fan, not just one club, as it could have easily happened to any team.
Do some people completely lack self discipline?
If just one person shouts out (as a couple did) it does kind of stick in my head. I seem to remember minutes silences that were spoilt more than ones that were not.
Glad we applauded for a whole minute for Remembrance Day now because I would have been wanting to kill anyone who shouted during that (again, bound to be some moron, in fact I thought there was and that's what triggered the clapping?)
Only then did I realize that it had ripped the heart out of the club and the city,and I don't think Liverpool has ever recovered.
On Saturday when I was watching soccer Saturday with my 14 year old son and they showed footage of what happened at Hillborough it brought it all back and I was in bits, my son said to me dad what's wrong , and I said because those people went to a football match and never came back son, it should never have happened.
Forget footballing rivalries, this should not have happened, and the cover up by the police and newspapers is a stain against our country and an insult to the average man.