The Sun newspaper was one of the publications to help cover it up and Liverpool refuses to sell that newspaper. Personally, I don't think anywhere should sell it for many reasons.
Kelvin McKenzie, the editor at the time, was the only c**t who ran that story and now has the gall to declare himself a victim of the police lies. There's some serious karma waiting for that scumbag!
I was 13 years old, fishing in Hillsborough park by the side of the stadium. We heard the sirens and the commotion, but had no idea what was happening. We were fishing on a bank that was fenced off. As I climbed over the fence to get out a spike went through my jeans and came out of the fly. A Liverpool fan lifted me off the fence and helped me down. I didn't notice he was crying until I asked him what the score was, and he told me "About 90 dead". I'll never forget that walk home up the hill and all the fans queuing outside houses to use phones to ring home. Justice was never served for the 96.
I’d never heard if people waiting to use neighbors phones. But I’m old enough to realise that of course that’s what would have happened. Not nearly enough payohones around after such a catastrophe.
I remember watching it, it was an absolutely lovely sunny day. What was disgusting was the attitude of the sun newspaper and the news of the world, comparing the fans to pigs and publishing gratuitous photos. Special credit to kenny dalgleish who attended every one of the 96 funerals.
@@That-Ginger-Chick To this day, nobody associated with Liverpool, the club, or the city, will have anything to do with that disgusting rag. Stores throughout the city flat out refuse to stock it.
Lived in Sheffield all my life and 5 min walk from the ground. Walked past the memorial just outside 1000s of times. And I can't ever remember a time when fresh flowers wasn't there. Every game day lots of new flowers are laid down, from all fans from all teams. Respect.
My Uncle and Cousin were at the game. It wasn't until 30 years later my cousin was contacted by the inquiry that their police statements had been falsified by the police!!
It took until 2016 for the families to get a verdict of unlawful killing from this event, and up to 2012 the fans were still being blamed. Absolute disgrace.
They still didn't convict the POS Cop that allowed the crush to happen in the first place and then sat on his ass and did nothing why people were dying. Also fuck the Scum (the Sun) for portraying the fans as being drunk and causing the disaster.
They are all tragic accidental deaths, accidental deaths that went on to design better , I was there and I still support Forrest. Boo national anthem why. So you blame the English. You are English… ?? 🏴
I work security here in Scotland. Part of our training includes videos from this horrific tragedy and also that of the Bradford City fire tragedy. I wept watching these videos in training as did a few of the men and woman who trained with me. I am grateful that finally the victims can finally rest in peace and they got the justice they deserved. Although, this tragedy should never have happened.
Medical experts testified that half the people who died could have been saved if ambulances had been allowed in. Immediately following the event, more than 200 police were ordered to falsify accounts of what happened. There have been a couple of dramas made about the case and the decades long fight for justice. It is beyond shameful.
I am not even a Liverpool fan, I'm a Borussia Dortmund supporter, but I and many other football supporters still feel to this day, that there was never real justice for the 97. YNWA!
In English football stadiums in 1989, typically many of the tickets were standing-room only. Fans on the "terraces" were treated like cattle. I live in Canada, but I was at the 1987 FA Cup final with my sister--on the terraces. (I had won the tickets and a trip to England in a contest.) We were separated early in the match and never got within ten yards of each other for the rest of the match--and this was at famous Wembley Stadium. My sister--who is 5 foot 11--often was not touching the ground for most of the match. It took the Hillsborough tragedy for changes to be made.
Who were the victims of the Hillsborough Disaster? As recorded by a memorial at Liverpool's Anfield ground, Hillsborough's youngest victim was 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley, a cousin of the future Liverpool and England star, Steven Gerrard. The oldest was 67-year-old Gerard Baron, a retired postal worker.
I was not aware of the devastation at this event until about 2 years ago when i watched a tv show. I knew about it as my son is a liverpool supporter and had told me about the song. I cried through much of the tv show watching what happened and how it should never have. To the people of liverpool i send my love xx
Ah Daniel my friend. Thank you for taking the time to cover this. It means a lot. I still remember this as if it were yesterday. The whole thing was horrific. Please keep up the good work
No he didn't, it wouldn't have been physically possible. He personally attended a great many of them, and ensured some representatives of the club attended the others.
I think you reacted to the crowd singing ' You'll Never Walk Alone' at the European Cup Final. In that you will see a player taking in the moment. He was Steven Gerrard , a Liveerpudlian, and team captain who had come up through the academy. Watching that moment back will put a new emphasise on it .
Hey Daniel. As a liverpool fan this match was unusual in that it was shown live on tv. I remember being horrified as a teenager as this unfolded before me on tv. I remember shouting to my dad that something really bad had happened and the match was stopped. Until recently Liverpool held a memorial service each year closest to the 15th April where all current playing staff attend and any member of the public may attend. Readings are given and the names of all 97 are read out. The club shirt also carries on the back of the collar 2 eternal flames and '97'. The justice system looked at charges against the main people in 2020 but no prosecutions have taken place. BTW. The cover up and screw ups that came to light many years later are equally shocking. These included many police officers notebooks being altered to remove any blame of their supervisors within the police. The ambulance driver that defied orders and drove on to the pitch and spoke out at the shambles by police and emergency services was fired. The local hospital not having enough medical drips. The hicks family being taken to a part of a stadium to identify their 13 and 15 year old deceased girls and asked how much they'd drunk as they must have been drunk. (Obviously they had not drunk anything!). I could go on but everyone from Prime minister to police to local government that were meant to declare the stadium safe to Sheffield wednesday that knew the stadium wasn't fit for the match but took the money to host it as they were financially troubled at the time.
Thank you for supplying all this information. Having been aware of this utterly tragic avoidable disaster. I can't imagine how the families coped and had years of blame aimed at their loved ones disgraceful. I feel a cross between rage at how this was handled and deep empathy for the families if that makes sense as I'm sure most will
@@burnsyboyy7534 There had been near misses at previous semi-finals at Hillsborough. One example is the 1981 FA Cup semi-final between Spurs and Wolves.
Such a horrible day. I knew a few people who died there. Both everton & liverpool fans joined together to support each other. The Sun newspaper was boycotted across merseyside. I live across the mersey on the wirral. All merseysiders banned together. Love your reaction.
Bless you Daniel, this affected everyone, there is a documentary out there about the unlawful killing rulling & the families & tte club involvement...anyone remember it? Thank you love & light from cold South wales 💜🏴🌻
One of those tragic events that I'll always remember where I was at the time and even how my team got on that day. I was 17 and had a radio on listening to the Stoke commentary and the 1st reports coming in of advertising boards being used for stretchers indicated something was seriously wrong. What followed, we all know and the police cover up was unforgivable. You shouldn't go to a game and never come back. R.I.P the 97. SCFC 🤝🏻 LFC YNWA.
Back in the day, FA Cup semifinals were played at neutral club venues, which is why teams from Liverpool and Nottingham were playing in Sheffield. Hillsborough was quite a common venue for semi finals, but over years was more and more delapidated, as was shown when there were crowd injuries in previous semi finals in the 80's. In any event, this tragedy was followed by as despicable a cover-up as you could possibly get from the media, government, and police.
It was never dilapidated compared to any ground in the country then. I'm a Wednesday fan and travelled extensively to away games in the early eighties and Hillsborough was easily in the best three or four grounds in that era. Arsenal, Man Utd and Villa are the ones in the same bracket. Having said that I have been in crushes at two of those grounds plus Liverpool, Everton and lots of others. Getting crushed was part and parcel of the "footballing experience" in those days. You could choose any ground and you would find standards which wouldn't be tolerated today.
@@SimSim-zf9if It’s true that ground safety was all below today’s standards, but it’s also true that there were concerns specifically about Hillsborough. There’d been a near-fatal crush in an FA Cup semi a few years before and there are lots of articles and recoded phone-ins from the week or so before the game where people were very critical of the choice of venue.
@@chrispalmer7893 There were crushes every week at games up and down the country. It was only a question of time before it happened. Dangerous crushes also happened at Anfield
@@SimSim-zf9if I agree, but I’ll say it again, concerns were raised about the likelihood of it being particularly bad at that ground before for day of the match, partly because of a near miss some years before. This isn’t hindsight, nor is it attempting to blame Sheffield Wednesday the club - the issues raised before hand were addressed to the FA for choosing a venue they knew to be unsafe
My friend was meant to go to this game but his dad decided not to take him as he was very young at the time (about 8 I think). Instead he took his friend. Sadly his friend lost his life at this game. When the police interviewed him, they were more focussed on if he had been drinking instead of what happened. Even now, he struggles to talk about it. It’s truly sad. To your question about what did the club do… it brought the club together. They were very supportive. The fans talk about themselves as a family
It took too many years for the truth to finally be told, and even today we are still often blamed by some people. Standing at the Shankly Gates, covered in LFC scarfs and flowers, listening to You'll Never Walk Alone, is the only time I ever saw my father cry.
@@longlivetheboleyn1917Daniel, as you can see with this ****, there are people who to this day use the phrase "always the victims" to imply that Liverpool fans were to blame for the 97 deaths, despite whole independent inquests being carried out to uncover the truth that not only were Liverpool fans not at all to blame, but that they were deliberately demonised and assigned guilt by certain scumbags in the press so as to excuse the police who were responsible. Liverpool fans, as your video shows, were actually deemed to be "heroes" on the day. Fortunately, idiots like this are the minority, snd are being outed more snd more.
What’s missing here is that Liverpool were incredibly successful at that time and so were often playing important games in various cup competition finals and semi finals and they had a reputation, way before the Hillsborough disaster, of turning up late for games and many of them without tickets. There is no reason why this game would have been any different. The 97 were undoubtedly killed, at least in part, by their own fans for it was those late fans being the catalyst, along with the failings of the police, that ultimately led to the deaths of those 97. How do we know this is the case beyond all doubt? There is CCTV footage of the stand being full to overflowing, especially in the central pen at the time of the crush, with just a small amount of space for a few hundred people in one of the side pens and yet, at the exact same time, the CCTV cameras showing behind the stand and towards Leppings Lane, there are still thousands more fans trying to get in! Why were they there? There was no room for them in the ground. Regardless of the political sham of a verdict alleviating all Liverpool fans of any blame whatsoever, the video evidence shows the actual reality of the main cause of the 97 deaths!
@@improvesheffield4824 Of course, all of these claims were fully dismissed by the independent inquiry which spent an inordinate amount of time dispelling these very fallacies via the questioning of thousands of witnesses and countless hours of CCTV footage, hundreds of thousands of pages of expert assessments, and scientific studies recreating the events analytically to the finest detail, but why let actual facts get in the way of regurgitating scientifically and legally disproven lies which were designed to vilify a group of innocent people, when you have an agenda to uphold?
@@improvesheffield4824 I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you. They were there because the police closed other entrances causing a bottleneck. It was not that they were late, it was that the police made their entrance slower because of the lack of entrance space for the amount of people. If you had listened to the video, a member of the police had asked at 14.40 for a delay in kick off because there was already a problem, caused by police management, not late arrivals. Crowds are the responsibility of the venue and the police, not the individuals. I am not from Liverpool nor a football fan, but the facts are the facts. I also have a son who is a Dr of Mathematics - he could explain fluid dynamics to you.
Thought I'd watch this, but only managed less than two minutes before switching off. I was at Hillborough that afternoon, not in the central enclosure where the worst of the crush happened, but close enough. It's almost 35 years ago but the memories of events that day will be with me and all Liverpool fans forever.
There was a TV drama on a couple of years ago called Anne, it followed the family of one of the young victims, from the day he went to the match to the 2016 court case, it was really good but so heartbreaking, it’s worth a watch if you can find it over there
I was there that day on the Kop end. What started out a great day in the sun with a fantastic atmosphere in and around the ground, turned into a day i will never forget. All the forest fans on the Kop just stood there helpless and watched the tragedy. As the commentator said we thought it was a pitch invasion at first but then police and first aiders brought bodies down to our end and we watched the people being given cpr. It was 4 minutes past 3 when the game stopped and the first ambulance got on the pitch at 3.24. By that time most of the fans were dead in front of us. RIP the 96
Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield knew nothing about managing football crowds. By all accounts he had a hostility to football fans. His mismanagement on the day was of gross incompetence. To think that on the day as people lay dying only one single ambulance was allowed to assist hundreds of crushed people for around 45 minutes, while people lay dying on the pitch. And if you think what happened there was a disgrace, the ensuing cover-up was equally disgusting. When the scale of the tragedy became apparent the senior police immediately directed ordinary police constables to interview families as they came to identify the bodies (laid out in a gym, being used as a makeshift mortuary). They were told to ask such questions as "where did {persons name} go to drink before games?" They even asked these questions to families of teenage kids. They were setting the blame firmly on the fans. Trying to say that they were drunk etc. This cover-up continued for decades. Prime Minister at the time Margaret Thatcher (always a nasty piece of work) was complicit in the cover-up. The Sun newspaper (one of the biggest in the UK) published the most heinous front-page and "story" you've ever seen with the headline "The Truth". Among many other lies it claimed that the fans urinated on other fans while they lay dying. The editor Kelvin McKenzie had made it all up. Ultimately although the remaining families (many had died in the intervening years with their loved ones still blamed) eventually got an apology, nobody has ever been held accountable in a court of law. And to this day Chief Superintendent Dunckenfield has not been held to account for his incompetence.
This was the Saturday after my 14th birthday and my parents had taken me and a friend out, we went to a relatively nearby larger town that had a cinema and a McDonalds (they weren’t overly common in Scotland in those days) and after we’d had lunch and before heading to the cinema we were going round a department store and saw the breaking news on the TV’s in the home entertainment section. It was something so shocking to see playing out on the TV (which for my parents likely hit a little harder than it had for me, as we’d had family members at the Ibrox Disaster in ‘71 who had fortunately escaped unscathed) and with Liverpool’s manager at the time being one of the most beloved Scotland players ever (Kenny Dalgleish) it felt like a connection (I daresay for many Scots). To get understanding from the clubs perspective, you might want to watch the film Kenny, it’s a documentary about the life and career of Kenny Dalgleish and obviously a reasonable amount of time on Hillsborough and its aftermath.
I remember watching this live as a young child. I didn't really understand the gravity of what I was seeing, but I can still remember the faces being pushed up against the fence, they were purple. People were pulling others up to the higher tier, players on the pitch were frantically waving to try make the crowd move back. The fence came down and they just poured out, over the poor souls who were at the front. People were doing cpr everywhere. There was no help. I was stunned. My father was crying. It should never have happened.
There was so much indignity shown to the victims that day and there's a documentary from around 2016 simply called 'Hillsborough' that told the events from witnesses that day and also family members of victims, that drove to Sheffield after hearing of the disaster and were treated appallingly, including parents of child victims being asked if they'd been drinking that afternoon, the authorities were so desperate to pin it on the fans right from the start.
I feel it's not real justice because the people in charge that day were never ruled guilty. Duckenfield retired got into court and was found not guilty. He was the one who ordered to open the gate and failed to close the tunnel...
We we're living in Barnsley at the time and my Father tried getting me a ticket for the match as n early birthday present but it was already sold out..he didn't tell me till after the event. I already watched my beloved Liverpool at Barnsley a couple of years before..that team was amazing. It's taken so many years to get justice for the families of the victims and whenever I've visited anfield since I always say a little prayer for the victims at the memorial.🙏
I was working at Hillsborough Stadium on that day and still do. I carried a few bodies from the pitch that day on makeshift stretchers and laid them where all the other victims were and to this day I have no idea who they were.
I live in Nottingham and the Nottingham Forest club have done lots of Tributes since. My heart goes out to all the people effected by this and i am sorry they had to fight so long for justice.
My friend who was 18 at the time took along his 13 year old neighbour. - the young boy survived but has no use of his arm. - a few days after the disaster, the kids mother got a knock on the door. It was two police men. - they wanted to know how much the kid had been drinking. She told them to get out of her house. This was the mentality. They were doing blood tests on dead bodies of young children to test for alcohol. - the sun newspaper reported that people were pissing on dead bodys and stealing wallets and watches. A lie they printed on the front page. A lie that some still think is a fact. The whole cover up was the biggest injustice in british legal history and none of us will ever forget. Many survivors took their own life. Many are struggling mentally to this day.
This will be the first time I've watched it since it was on live, on a Saturday afternoon. I just couldn't watch that again. A lot of time has passed and I think it's important to acknowledge what happened time and again, so that it never happens again.
One of the ironies of this tragedy is that dozens of clubs either drastically rebuilt their stadiums or constructed brand new ones. However, Hillsborough, bar installing seats behind both goals, is virtually unchanged.
It wasn't the overcrowding of fans that caused the death of all those victims,It was authorities and police also the stewards to blame for the 97 fatalities it's a cover up and lies
it has to be one of if not the darkest day in English football every fan and every club wanted justice in 2016 they got a small part of it. The good thing is that terraces are no longer aloud in top flight that was all the FA could really do, its was never the answer to something that was a police and services error on a epic level
The Sun Newspaper blamed the Liverpool fans for the fatalities (which they weren’t). Still to this day very few Sun papers are sold in Liverpool and reading one in public is frown upon
@@sunseeker9581 As a Sheff Wed fan I do know of many locals who said some of the things Liverpool fans were accused of were true and they saw it unfold with their own eyes. They are adamant about it to this day. I've never seen any reason for them to lie. Very strange.
Beautiful monument at Anfield dedicated to those who lost their lives at Hillsborough. Liverpool is the club you should support Daniel. A great team, entwined in the community. And I give a special mention to Everton, who as a club, and their supporters, supported the families of the Hillsborough victims throughout the fight for justice.
I remember this dreadful day. The one good thing to come out of it is that MOST, if not all British soccer stadiums are now totally seated, with VERY FEW having standing areas. Those who have this are VERY small capacity stadiums, almost just fields. This has cut down on the amount of people who can actually attend and allows for space around each person. When you think of how many were actually trying to attend, it’s almost the equivalent of a small to medium sized town. God bless those who died, and God’s blessings on their families.
I have seen two disasters live on television. The first of which was Hillsborough. At the time it wasn't apparent what was going on. I saw fans being pulled up to the stands above but could not figure out why. Even when the fence came down it was just thought to be a pitch invasion. When we were told too many people had been allowed into that area we still had no idea of the amount of people involved.
I found my 96 badge the other day when I was sorting through stuff. I'm never getting rid of it, ever. It's 97 now. It brought all teams and their supporters together. They wait until the people at fault retire or die before anything is done. It was a big match and went out live on national TV. The stadium held regular memorials and meetings. At one, a representative of the then government, Andy Burnham, went on to deliver a prepared speech, but was interrupted by the crowd singing You'll Never Walk Alone. He looked at them, and dropped his speech. Instead, he promised to do everything he could to get the government to reopen the case. He, and his Parliamentary opposite from the other party, Teresa May, worked together to revive the case. I believe the video of that is on YT somewhere.
Ots not 96 its now 97 as one of the many injured fans on that day never fully recovered from his injuries and passed away as a direct result of these injuries several years later. His name has now been added to the memorial plaque at Anfield and the road n where this memorial stands has bee renamed 97th Avenue. I was 24 yrs old at the time of this and along with several friends went to the game.i was fortunate enough to have a seated ticket in a adjacent stand but several of my friends had standing tickets in the Leppings Land stand.I witnessed the crush and it was very obvious to me that this was a serious incident not caused by football hooliganism .I lost two of my old school friends that day and for many many years afterwards I could not go onto crowded events. I still to this day find it hard to go into large crowds and have to think of ways to avoid any chance of being in a future crush situation..Now a days I always get to football matches or concerts arly and am always one of the lat to depart a venue when most of the crowd has already left. It was a harrowing experience and I was not personally involved it the crush but I witnessed it and in the weeks after I went to several funerals for my friends and other fellow Liverpool Fc Fans..It definetly also heightened my claustrophobia and fear of tight dark spaces and crowds
This was a very brief but pretty good explanation of what happened that day. The more in depth videos are impossible to watch with dry eyes. When you hear stories of families trying to find their loved ones. The cover up and the decades long fight for the truth. Unbelievable
Only just keeping up with the recent content. I’m from close to Liverpool and, despite not being a Liverpool FC fan, fully understand and respect the weight of the disaster and the impact it still has today. Good on you Daniel for covering this! Must not have been an easy watch for you. Respect.
I sat down with my dad (both seasoned football supporters) to watch this on TV (it was live on RTE for those that might not be from Ireland (North or South)). I will never forget it, it affected me deeply, really deeply; tears streaming down my 51 year old face typing this. I'm a Manchester United fan and 'You'll Never Walk Alone' holds a very special place in my heart. Thanks for looking at this.
Me and my dad both watched it live on RTE also. We are both Liverpool fanatics, the majority of Liverpool Saturday 3 o’clock games were live on RTE during the 80’s. Seeing our fans come onto the pitch I was initially angry (with hysel still fresh in the memory) because it was shaping up to be another classic, things then turned when I saw people being given cpr, we were in shock for days, will never forget it. YNWA
As a scouser and Liverpool supporter I was once asked by a Manc why we always talk about this awful disaster. As you can imagine my initial response was total anger but then I took the time to explain how our city is a community, we all felt it, we all knew someone who was there. The 97 was utterly devastating but there was many more, people who were there who never recovered, some took their own lives, suffered from depression, had to move away, the consequences go on. My love and support goes to all the people who have been affected. My dad was also the printer who created the signs ‘Don’t by the Sun, Don’t by the Star’ I love that x
Daniel if u can please watch a 4 part tv programme called "Anne" its about a mothers campaign to clear her young sons name after he was crushed to death and authorities blamed him and others on them being unlawful hooligans. It happebed decades ago but the controversy is still happening in court cases even this week
You should watch the ravens eye on the Blackpool football stadium fire. Tragic, awful, sadly the kick up the backside football teams needed to sort out certain things to prevent further similar disasters
At first from title thought this was about the stadium that caught fire, rip 96 Just noticed you reacted 9 months ago to this on your own channel, shame Spencer wasn't here to join reaction for this channel
I remember that day, I also remember the shocking images in the various newspapers the day after. I am not from Liverpool nor do I live there but it affected me greatly. It was terrible.
The Stadium Safety Officer got a £6500 fine, the police and ambulance service got off scot free, and it took 32 years for the victims to get compensation, just added insult to injury
Well yeah it was police but not only them could of prevented it the stadium owners should of had protocols in place they must of seen what was happening they should of shut the gates but they didn’t and what is it do to with the ambulance service it’s not their damn job it was the police fifa and the stadium owners and then you could blame some of the hooligans the way they was pushing to get inside if some had brains and didn’t try and push in cause many people must of pushed to get in but they was only thinking of them self and to watch the game and not the safety of your fellow supporters
@@davidware9549 It was hard to get any sense out that unpunctuated nonsense, but what comes through very clearly is that you have absolutely no understanding of what actually happened.
I remember watching this live on TV. You could see what was happening on tv but the police just stood and watched for ages. It was a terrible thing to witness live on tv
And also the design of the stadiums you use to enter and exit from the top and go forwards and there was standing areas after Hillsborough they changed the stadium to all seated and the entrance/ exit is at the at the bottom and have to walk up to your seat
Thanks for covering the Hillsborough Disaster as a Liverpool fan, it took until 2016 for the families to get a verdict of unlawful killing from this disaster and fans where getting blamed. Disgusting
As a Sheffield resident I remember this so well, it was horrendous. I worked as a football steward and have worked on the stand where most of the fatalaties happened, so sadm
It seems not right to give a like to this video but its a like for you spreading the truth as i'm sure all who have liked feel the same. The hell the victims dead and alive went through and the many years of hell the families were further put through. Bless all of them I teared up through seeing this again and good on you Daniel for reacting to it 🧡
@lennymarsh1323 me too, on Grandstand. They were going to cross live for the final whistle because Bradford had won Division 3 but instead we went live to a tragedy
I lived in Nottingham at the time and watching unfold live, i was heartbroken to see it happen. I love my football but for a few weeks i watch it. RIP 96 who died 💔 💔
Honestly, if I’d seen the situation outside the stadium, I’d have run a mile. This is absolutely terrifying. And it’s another of those cases where you’re just thinking it should never have happened, EVER! They passed away for absolutely nothing. Nothing. If you see this kind of crowd outside an event, for Gods sake don’t go inside. Chances are, there’s not nearly enough planning. Horrible.
are you serious? have you not been paying atttention. THERE WAS A CRUSH. no one could move even outside..Easy for you to sit in your home and pontificate. have some respect! if not for the dead or injured that day for their stil grieving family and friends. You cannot say whatr you would do.
plus people were pushed forward and couldn't see what was happening. i was once nearly in a crush and I was a police officer. it was in a corner of Trafalgar square where due to the crowd at a demo I got separated from my collegues. people came and moved back and back to my position and I had one hell of a job extradicting myself an dshouted and shouted for people to move.. not just for me.. for everyone. that went unreported. I tried to. no one listened to me. It was years ago during the Ambulance dispute.
There was also this one. The Bradford City stadium fire occurred during a Football League Third Division match on Saturday, 11 May 1985 at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265.
I was twelve years old when this happened. I live in a town very close to Liverpool and most of my friends were big LFC fans. I remember playing in the park and one person coming in saying something was going wrong and then the panic building as we all realised that something big was going on. Such an avoidable disaster!
The shop right next to the ground on Leppings Lane ( shown at 2.46 ) was converted back into a house shortly after this and became my home for a few years. The neighbours had harrowing stories to tell.
There was actually a docu drama created in 1996 directed by a guy called Jimmy Mcgovern called Hillsborough based on the events of that tragic day. It stars Christopher Eccleston (the first of the modern Dr. Whos) and Ricky Tomlinson, it is quite an emotional watch that will tear your heart apart, but I highly recommend it if you can track it down.
There are two brilliant dramatizations about this. One, "Hillsborough", from the 90s, is centered around the family of the two sisters, and the one from 2019 is about Kevin (the boy who was still alive at 3.28) and his mum's fight for justice along with the other families (called "Anne" after the mum).
I'm from the South of England but I, as well as everyone I spoke to, knew it wasn't the fans fault! How the victims and their families were treated was disgusting, the public knew the truth from one watch of the tragedy, we knew ❤
I was visiting Liverpool for the first time that weekend, for a hospital radio conference. In our hotel the staff were doing their jobs as normal, but crying at the same time.
Tottenham Hotspur fans nearly had a disaster at the same ground a few years earlier. Lessons were not learnt! Football fans used to be treated like cattle in those days. RIP
The near disaster was between Notting forest and Spurs 2 or 3 years before the Liverpool v Notts forest match The only reason he disaster was averted at the notts forest spurs was because the policeman in charge that day had policed many matches and saw the threat before kick off and asked the game to be put back 20 mins and got the staff to open the gates that police officer that at the notts forest v spurs match saved the day that day
@@kathnunan641There were 'incidents' also in 88 and 87 - but the big one which should have served as a major warning was 1981 with Spurs vs Wolves (*eight* years prior). How on earth this wasnt red flagged is beyond me
Yeah it was the police but no only them it’s the owner of the stadium it like going into a shop it’s not the police that has to make u feel safe inside it’s the shop owners and the workers inside the stadium should of had protocols in place cause they should of seen what was happening way before and just close it off too many people where allowed it at once so its not all cause of the police but they also could of prevented it like many others could of too and then the animals how they was pushing inside don’t act like a hooligan should of had respect for one another but they didn’t they pushing
I was never a football fan, but remember this newsflash. It all unfolded live on TV. I watched as people managed to climb the fences and help each other to safety on the pitch, only for stewards and coppers to grab hold of them and throw them back into the cages and crowds .
Liverpool manager Sir Kenny Dalglish (King Kenny) personally attended the funeral of every victim and resigned soon after due the mental strain. The club has the eternal flame and number 97 on every shirt in their honour.
There was a documentary about Kenny about a year ago and he said in that that he still can't go near the Hillsborough Stadium because of the memories he gets.
I was 10 when this happened 😢 and remember seeing the photos in the newspapers of them poor people, stuck with me all these years.... And don't get me started on the Scum rag 😡 thank you for this reaction 🙏
People commented about the queue and how people in the U.K. loved to line up during the Queen's funeral. I wondered at the time if part of that was because of this event. If you lived through this (even if just on your local news) it would forever leave a scar.
The Sun newspaper was one of the publications to help cover it up and Liverpool refuses to sell that newspaper. Personally, I don't think anywhere should sell it for many reasons.
If you happen to have that paper on you visiting Liverpool, they will also eject you from the city.
Fair play to Liverpool, and it's people, I shall make sure I never buy it (not that I actually buy trashy newspapers anymore) love from Ireland
I love Liverpool, but to be fair, I'd never ever buy the sun even before I had my love for Liverpool. Fuck murdoch.
Totally agree. Also the cover up was driven by Thatcher's government. Absolute scum.
Kelvin McKenzie, the editor at the time, was the only c**t who ran that story and now has the gall to declare himself a victim of the police lies. There's some serious karma waiting for that scumbag!
I was 13 years old, fishing in Hillsborough park by the side of the stadium. We heard the sirens and the commotion, but had no idea what was happening.
We were fishing on a bank that was fenced off. As I climbed over the fence to get out a spike went through my jeans and came out of the fly. A Liverpool fan lifted me off the fence and helped me down. I didn't notice he was crying until I asked him what the score was, and he told me "About 90 dead".
I'll never forget that walk home up the hill and all the fans queuing outside houses to use phones to ring home.
Justice was never served for the 96.
Fucking hell …that gave me shivers
I’d never heard if people waiting to use neighbors phones. But I’m old enough to realise that of course that’s what would have happened. Not nearly enough payohones around after such a catastrophe.
I remember watching it, it was an absolutely lovely sunny day.
What was disgusting was the attitude of the sun newspaper and the news of the world, comparing the fans to pigs and publishing gratuitous photos.
Special credit to kenny dalgleish who attended every one of the 96 funerals.
The Sun is such a scummy rag that it's not even surprising.
@@That-Ginger-Chick It was the Scum then, it's the Scum now. Wouldn't wipe my arse with that trash.
@@That-Ginger-Chick To this day, nobody associated with Liverpool, the club, or the city, will have anything to do with that disgusting rag. Stores throughout the city flat out refuse to stock it.
Thats what made me sick too, I was 19 and angry af
I remember it happening and seeing it, live, on tv, it was awful, like what watching a horror film.
Lived in Sheffield all my life and 5 min walk from the ground. Walked past the memorial just outside 1000s of times. And I can't ever remember a time when fresh flowers wasn't there. Every game day lots of new flowers are laid down, from all fans from all teams. Respect.
My Uncle and Cousin were at the game. It wasn't until 30 years later my cousin was contacted by the inquiry that their police statements had been falsified by the police!!
It took until 2016 for the families to get a verdict of unlawful killing from this event, and up to 2012 the fans were still being blamed. Absolute disgrace.
One of the main reasons we boo the national anthem..☹️
They still didn't convict the POS Cop that allowed the crush to happen in the first place and then sat on his ass and did nothing why people were dying.
Also fuck the Scum (the Sun) for portraying the fans as being drunk and causing the disaster.
They are all tragic accidental deaths, accidental deaths that went on to design better , I was there and I still support Forrest.
Boo national anthem why. So you blame the English. You are English… ?? 🏴
Hillsborough wasn't accidental FFS.
Do you not understand the fucking cover up?
I work security here in Scotland. Part of our training includes videos from this horrific tragedy and also that of the Bradford City fire tragedy.
I wept watching these videos in training as did a few of the men and woman who trained with me.
I am grateful that finally the victims can finally rest in peace and they got the justice they deserved. Although, this tragedy should never have happened.
Medical experts testified that half the people who died could have been saved if ambulances had been allowed in. Immediately following the event, more than 200 police were ordered to falsify accounts of what happened. There have been a couple of dramas made about the case and the decades long fight for justice. It is beyond shameful.
I am not even a Liverpool fan, I'm a Borussia Dortmund supporter, but I and many other football supporters still feel to this day, that there was never real justice for the 97. YNWA!
thank you from an LFC fan 👍🤝
In English football stadiums in 1989, typically many of the tickets were standing-room only. Fans on the "terraces" were treated like cattle. I live in Canada, but I was at the 1987 FA Cup final with my sister--on the terraces. (I had won the tickets and a trip to England in a contest.) We were separated early in the match and never got within ten yards of each other for the rest of the match--and this was at famous Wembley Stadium. My sister--who is 5 foot 11--often was not touching the ground for most of the match. It took the Hillsborough tragedy for changes to be made.
Who were the victims of the Hillsborough Disaster? As recorded by a memorial at Liverpool's Anfield ground, Hillsborough's youngest victim was 10-year-old Jon-Paul Gilhooley, a cousin of the future Liverpool and England star, Steven Gerrard. The oldest was 67-year-old Gerard Baron, a retired postal worker.
I was not aware of the devastation at this event until about 2 years ago when i watched a tv show. I knew about it as my son is a liverpool supporter and had told me about the song. I cried through much of the tv show watching what happened and how it should never have. To the people of liverpool i send my love xx
Ah Daniel my friend. Thank you for taking the time to cover this. It means a lot. I still remember this as if it were yesterday. The whole thing was horrific. Please keep up the good work
As a lifelong Red, you are now in the LFC Family. It took 26 years for the truth. The government and Police cover-ups made it so much worse.
Liverpool manager and Legend Kenny Dalgliesh went to all 96 funerals
No he didn't, it wouldn't have been physically possible. He personally attended a great many of them, and ensured some representatives of the club attended the others.
I think you reacted to the crowd singing ' You'll Never Walk Alone' at the European Cup Final.
In that you will see a player taking in the moment. He was Steven Gerrard , a Liveerpudlian, and team captain who had come up through the academy.
Watching that moment back will put a new emphasise on it .
Steven Gerards cousin was the youngest to die at Hillsborough
Hey Daniel. As a liverpool fan this match was unusual in that it was shown live on tv. I remember being horrified as a teenager as this unfolded before me on tv. I remember shouting to my dad that something really bad had happened and the match was stopped.
Until recently Liverpool held a memorial service each year closest to the 15th April where all current playing staff attend and any member of the public may attend. Readings are given and the names of all 97 are read out.
The club shirt also carries on the back of the collar 2 eternal flames and '97'.
The justice system looked at charges against the main people in 2020 but no prosecutions have taken place.
BTW. The cover up and screw ups that came to light many years later are equally shocking. These included many police officers notebooks being altered to remove any blame of their supervisors within the police. The ambulance driver that defied orders and drove on to the pitch and spoke out at the shambles by police and emergency services was fired. The local hospital not having enough medical drips.
The hicks family being taken to a part of a stadium to identify their 13 and 15 year old deceased girls and asked how much they'd drunk as they must have been drunk. (Obviously they had not drunk anything!). I could go on but everyone from Prime minister to police to local government that were meant to declare the stadium safe to Sheffield wednesday that knew the stadium wasn't fit for the match but took the money to host it as they were financially troubled at the time.
Thank you for supplying all this information. Having been aware of this utterly tragic avoidable disaster. I can't imagine how the families coped and had years of blame aimed at their loved ones disgraceful. I feel a cross between rage at how this was handled and deep empathy for the families if that makes sense as I'm sure most will
I learned that Hillsborough health and safety Certificate was 10 years out of date at the time, absolutely shocking.
@@burnsyboyy7534 There had been near misses at previous semi-finals at Hillsborough. One example is the 1981 FA Cup semi-final between Spurs and Wolves.
Such a horrible day. I knew a few people who died there. Both everton & liverpool fans joined together to support each other. The Sun newspaper was boycotted across merseyside. I live across the mersey on the wirral. All merseysiders banned together. Love your reaction.
Bless you Daniel, this affected everyone, there is a documentary out there about the unlawful killing rulling & the families & tte club involvement...anyone remember it? Thank you love & light from cold South wales 💜🏴🌻
One of those tragic events that I'll always remember where I was at the time and even how my team got on that day. I was 17 and had a radio on listening to the Stoke commentary and the 1st reports coming in of advertising boards being used for stretchers indicated something was seriously wrong. What followed, we all know and the police cover up was unforgivable. You shouldn't go to a game and never come back. R.I.P the 97. SCFC 🤝🏻 LFC YNWA.
Back in the day, FA Cup semifinals were played at neutral club venues, which is why teams from Liverpool and Nottingham were playing in Sheffield. Hillsborough was quite a common venue for semi finals, but over years was more and more delapidated, as was shown when there were crowd injuries in previous semi finals in the 80's. In any event, this tragedy was followed by as despicable a cover-up as you could possibly get from the media, government, and police.
It was never dilapidated compared to any ground in the country then. I'm a Wednesday fan and travelled extensively to away games in the early eighties and Hillsborough was easily in the best three or four grounds in that era. Arsenal, Man Utd and Villa are the ones in the same bracket. Having said that I have been in crushes at two of those grounds plus Liverpool, Everton and lots of others. Getting crushed was part and parcel of the "footballing experience" in those days. You could choose any ground and you would find standards which wouldn't be tolerated today.
@@SimSim-zf9if It’s true that ground safety was all below today’s standards, but it’s also true that there were concerns specifically about Hillsborough. There’d been a near-fatal crush in an FA Cup semi a few years before and there are lots of articles and recoded phone-ins from the week or so before the game where people were very critical of the choice of venue.
@@chrispalmer7893 There were crushes every week at games up and down the country. It was only a question of time before it happened. Dangerous crushes also happened at Anfield
@@SimSim-zf9if I agree, but I’ll say it again, concerns were raised about the likelihood of it being particularly bad at that ground before for day of the match, partly because of a near miss some years before. This isn’t hindsight, nor is it attempting to blame Sheffield Wednesday the club - the issues raised before hand were addressed to the FA for choosing a venue they knew to be unsafe
My friend was meant to go to this game but his dad decided not to take him as he was very young at the time (about 8 I think). Instead he took his friend. Sadly his friend lost his life at this game. When the police interviewed him, they were more focussed on if he had been drinking instead of what happened. Even now, he struggles to talk about it. It’s truly sad. To your question about what did the club do… it brought the club together. They were very supportive. The fans talk about themselves as a family
sadly too many of these stories, RIP all 97 plus the people who survived plus all the families involved
It took too many years for the truth to finally be told, and even today we are still often blamed by some people.
Standing at the Shankly Gates, covered in LFC scarfs and flowers, listening to You'll Never Walk Alone, is the only time I ever saw my father cry.
Always the victims
@@longlivetheboleyn1917Daniel, as you can see with this ****, there are people who to this day use the phrase "always the victims" to imply that Liverpool fans were to blame for the 97 deaths, despite whole independent inquests being carried out to uncover the truth that not only were Liverpool fans not at all to blame, but that they were deliberately demonised and assigned guilt by certain scumbags in the press so as to excuse the police who were responsible. Liverpool fans, as your video shows, were actually deemed to be "heroes" on the day.
Fortunately, idiots like this are the minority, snd are being outed more snd more.
What’s missing here is that Liverpool were incredibly successful at that time and so were often playing important games in various cup competition finals and semi finals and they had a reputation, way before the Hillsborough disaster, of turning up late for games and many of them without tickets. There is no reason why this game would have been any different. The 97 were undoubtedly killed, at least in part, by their own fans for it was those late fans being the catalyst, along with the failings of the police, that ultimately led to the deaths of those 97.
How do we know this is the case beyond all doubt? There is CCTV footage of the stand being full to overflowing, especially in the central pen at the time of the crush, with just a small amount of space for a few hundred people in one of the side pens and yet, at the exact same time, the CCTV cameras showing behind the stand and towards Leppings Lane, there are still thousands more fans trying to get in! Why were they there? There was no room for them in the ground.
Regardless of the political sham of a verdict alleviating all Liverpool fans of any blame whatsoever, the video evidence shows the actual reality of the main cause of the 97 deaths!
@@improvesheffield4824 Of course, all of these claims were fully dismissed by the independent inquiry which spent an inordinate amount of time dispelling these very fallacies via the questioning of thousands of witnesses and countless hours of CCTV footage, hundreds of thousands of pages of expert assessments, and scientific studies recreating the events analytically to the finest detail, but why let actual facts get in the way of regurgitating scientifically and legally disproven lies which were designed to vilify a group of innocent people, when you have an agenda to uphold?
@@improvesheffield4824 I can explain it to you but I can't understand it for you. They were there because the police closed other entrances causing a bottleneck. It was not that they were late, it was that the police made their entrance slower because of the lack of entrance space for the amount of people. If you had listened to the video, a member of the police had asked at 14.40 for a delay in kick off because there was already a problem, caused by police management, not late arrivals. Crowds are the responsibility of the venue and the police, not the individuals. I am not from Liverpool nor a football fan, but the facts are the facts. I also have a son who is a Dr of Mathematics - he could explain fluid dynamics to you.
Thought I'd watch this, but only managed less than two minutes before switching off.
I was at Hillborough that afternoon, not in the central enclosure where the worst of the crush happened, but close enough.
It's almost 35 years ago but the memories of events that day will be with me and all Liverpool fans forever.
There was a TV drama on a couple of years ago called Anne, it followed the family of one of the young victims, from the day he went to the match to the 2016 court case, it was really good but so heartbreaking, it’s worth a watch if you can find it over there
Liverpool FC have never forgotten those people
I was there that day on the Kop end. What started out a great day in the sun with a fantastic atmosphere in and around the ground, turned into a day i will never forget. All the forest fans on the Kop just stood there helpless and watched the tragedy. As the commentator said we thought it was a pitch invasion at first but then police and first aiders brought bodies down to our end and we watched the people being given cpr. It was 4 minutes past 3 when the game stopped and the first ambulance got on the pitch at 3.24. By that time most of the fans were dead in front of us. RIP the 96
Chief Superintendent David Duckenfield knew nothing about managing football crowds. By all accounts he had a hostility to football fans. His mismanagement on the day was of gross incompetence. To think that on the day as people lay dying only one single ambulance was allowed to assist hundreds of crushed people for around 45 minutes, while people lay dying on the pitch. And if you think what happened there was a disgrace, the ensuing cover-up was equally disgusting. When the scale of the tragedy became apparent the senior police immediately directed ordinary police constables to interview families as they came to identify the bodies (laid out in a gym, being used as a makeshift mortuary). They were told to ask such questions as "where did {persons name} go to drink before games?" They even asked these questions to families of teenage kids. They were setting the blame firmly on the fans. Trying to say that they were drunk etc. This cover-up continued for decades. Prime Minister at the time Margaret Thatcher (always a nasty piece of work) was complicit in the cover-up. The Sun newspaper (one of the biggest in the UK) published the most heinous front-page and "story" you've ever seen with the headline "The Truth". Among many other lies it claimed that the fans urinated on other fans while they lay dying. The editor Kelvin McKenzie had made it all up. Ultimately although the remaining families (many had died in the intervening years with their loved ones still blamed) eventually got an apology, nobody has ever been held accountable in a court of law. And to this day Chief Superintendent Dunckenfield has not been held to account for his incompetence.
agree with everything you say ,god help the post office sub masters ,the infected blood scandal families,grenfell families etc..getting any justice 🙏
This was the Saturday after my 14th birthday and my parents had taken me and a friend out, we went to a relatively nearby larger town that had a cinema and a McDonalds (they weren’t overly common in Scotland in those days) and after we’d had lunch and before heading to the cinema we were going round a department store and saw the breaking news on the TV’s in the home entertainment section.
It was something so shocking to see playing out on the TV (which for my parents likely hit a little harder than it had for me, as we’d had family members at the Ibrox Disaster in ‘71 who had fortunately escaped unscathed) and with Liverpool’s manager at the time being one of the most beloved Scotland players ever (Kenny Dalgleish) it felt like a connection (I daresay for many Scots).
To get understanding from the clubs perspective, you might want to watch the film Kenny, it’s a documentary about the life and career of Kenny Dalgleish and obviously a reasonable amount of time on Hillsborough and its aftermath.
I remember watching this live as a young child. I didn't really understand the gravity of what I was seeing, but I can still remember the faces being pushed up against the fence, they were purple. People were pulling others up to the higher tier, players on the pitch were frantically waving to try make the crowd move back. The fence came down and they just poured out, over the poor souls who were at the front. People were doing cpr everywhere. There was no help. I was stunned. My father was crying. It should never have happened.
There was so much indignity shown to the victims that day and there's a documentary from around 2016 simply called 'Hillsborough' that told the events from witnesses that day and also family members of victims, that drove to Sheffield after hearing of the disaster and were treated appallingly, including parents of child victims being asked if they'd been drinking that afternoon, the authorities were so desperate to pin it on the fans right from the start.
There was a drama on TV in 1996 called 'Hillsborough'. Well worth watching if you've not seen it
I remember this…horrific just horrific. It took years for the families to get justice sadly
I feel it's not real justice because the people in charge that day were never ruled guilty. Duckenfield retired got into court and was found not guilty. He was the one who ordered to open the gate and failed to close the tunnel...
We we're living in Barnsley at the time and my Father tried getting me a ticket for the match as n early birthday present but it was already sold out..he didn't tell me till after the event. I already watched my beloved Liverpool at Barnsley a couple of years before..that team was amazing. It's taken so many years to get justice for the families of the victims and whenever I've visited anfield since I always say a little prayer for the victims at the memorial.🙏
I remember watching this live on the TV at the time such a sad time, You'll Never Walk Alone
I was working at Hillsborough Stadium on that day and still do. I carried a few bodies from the pitch that day on makeshift stretchers and laid them where all the other victims were and to this day I have no idea who they were.
I live in Nottingham and the Nottingham Forest club have done lots of Tributes since. My heart goes out to all the people effected by this and i am sorry they had to fight so long for justice.
thank you❤
My friend who was 18 at the time took along his 13 year old neighbour. - the young boy survived but has no use of his arm. - a few days after the disaster, the kids mother got a knock on the door. It was two police men. - they wanted to know how much the kid had been drinking. She told them to get out of her house. This was the mentality. They were doing blood tests on dead bodies of young children to test for alcohol. - the sun newspaper reported that people were pissing on dead bodys and stealing wallets and watches. A lie they printed on the front page. A lie that some still think is a fact. The whole cover up was the biggest injustice in british legal history and none of us will ever forget.
Many survivors took their own life. Many are struggling mentally to this day.
Thank you Daniel. ❤
This will be the first time I've watched it since it was on live, on a Saturday afternoon. I just couldn't watch that again. A lot of time has passed and I think it's important to acknowledge what happened time and again, so that it never happens again.
This event changed crowd control forever, they made sure that something horrific like this can never be allowed to happen again.
Only it happened in Korea just last year. Horrible. I’ve experienced this myself and to this day I panic in crowds.
One of the ironies of this tragedy is that dozens of clubs either drastically rebuilt their stadiums or constructed brand new ones. However, Hillsborough, bar installing seats behind both goals, is virtually unchanged.
And still has issues with overcrowding at the Leepings Lane end
Overcrowding? no there isnt the capacity has been slashed@@kieronallsop8855
Justice for the 97, the mother of all cover ups
It wasn't the overcrowding of fans that caused the death of all those victims,It was authorities and police also the stewards to blame for the 97 fatalities it's a cover up and lies
it has to be one of if not the darkest day in English football every fan and every club wanted justice in 2016 they got a small part of it. The good thing is that terraces are no longer aloud in top flight that was all the FA could really do, its was never the answer to something that was a police and services error on a epic level
The Sun Newspaper blamed the Liverpool fans for the fatalities (which they weren’t). Still to this day very few Sun papers are sold in Liverpool and reading one in public is frown upon
@@drdassler Are you a Tory?
@@drdassler It *was never their fault. There you go, no need to thank me for correcting your sentence
Used to be a Sun reader, but not now.
@@sunseeker9581 As a Sheff Wed fan I do know of many locals who said some of the things Liverpool fans were accused of were true and they saw it unfold with their own eyes. They are adamant about it to this day. I've never seen any reason for them to lie. Very strange.
@@drdasslerNot the time or the place for that disgusting comment, and you know it.
May I suggest you now do the Bradford Stadium fire 1985 ,
Arias and the nation, 8 months ago, Daniel has reacted to it
Beautiful monument at Anfield dedicated to those who lost their lives at Hillsborough.
Liverpool is the club you should support Daniel. A great team, entwined in the community. And I give a special mention to Everton, who as a club, and their supporters, supported the families of the Hillsborough victims throughout the fight for justice.
My team Tranmere Rovers as well. A week after Hillsborough we opened the gates to the stadium. 15 thousand turned up to the memorial service
We also don't let the sun newspaper into the ground
I remember the scenes when I was younger, crush victims against the fencing and those images have stuck with me since 😢
I remember this day like it was yesterday and seeing it live on the TV will live with me for the rest of my days
I remember this dreadful day. The one good thing to come out of it is that MOST, if not all British soccer stadiums are now totally seated, with VERY FEW having standing areas. Those who have this are VERY small capacity stadiums, almost just fields. This has cut down on the amount of people who can actually attend and allows for space around each person. When you think of how many were actually trying to attend, it’s almost the equivalent of a small to medium sized town. God bless those who died, and God’s blessings on their families.
I have seen two disasters live on television. The first of which was Hillsborough. At the time it wasn't apparent what was going on. I saw fans being pulled up to the stands above but could not figure out why. Even when the fence came down it was just thought to be a pitch invasion. When we were told too many people had been allowed into that area we still had no idea of the amount of people involved.
Thanks for covering this Daniel, it’s still upsetting to most people in the UK 😢
I am from Sheffield. I remember this like it was yesterday. I was 5 mins away 😢
I found my 96 badge the other day when I was sorting through stuff. I'm never getting rid of it, ever. It's 97 now. It brought all teams and their supporters together. They wait until the people at fault retire or die before anything is done. It was a big match and went out live on national TV.
The stadium held regular memorials and meetings. At one, a representative of the then government, Andy Burnham, went on to deliver a prepared speech, but was interrupted by the crowd singing You'll Never Walk Alone. He looked at them, and dropped his speech. Instead, he promised to do everything he could to get the government to reopen the case. He, and his Parliamentary opposite from the other party, Teresa May, worked together to revive the case. I believe the video of that is on YT somewhere.
Hi Daniel. Thanks for covering this. God bless the fans, families that were affected. xx
Those of us of an age will never forget.Still haunts me-and the photos printed in the newspapers were horrific xx
People living near the stadium opened their doors to Liverpool fans so they could phone home. This was before mobile phones were commonplace.
Ots not 96 its now 97 as one of the many injured fans on that day never fully recovered from his injuries and passed away as a direct result of these injuries several years later. His name has now been added to the memorial plaque at Anfield and the road n where this memorial stands has bee renamed 97th Avenue.
I was 24 yrs old at the time of this and along with several friends went to the game.i was fortunate enough to have a seated ticket in a adjacent stand but several of my friends had standing tickets in the Leppings Land stand.I witnessed the crush and it was very obvious to me that this was a serious incident not caused by football hooliganism .I lost two of my old school friends that day and for many many years afterwards I could not go onto crowded events. I still to this day find it hard to go into large crowds and have to think of ways to avoid any chance of being in a future crush situation..Now a days I always get to football matches or concerts arly and am always one of the lat to depart a venue when most of the crowd has already left.
It was a harrowing experience and I was not personally involved it the crush but I witnessed it and in the weeks after I went to several funerals for my friends and other fellow Liverpool Fc Fans..It definetly also heightened my claustrophobia and fear of tight dark spaces and crowds
Thank you for giving your time to watch this.
The deeper you look, the more heartbreaking this incident becomes.
This was a very brief but pretty good explanation of what happened that day. The more in depth videos are impossible to watch with dry eyes. When you hear stories of families trying to find their loved ones. The cover up and the decades long fight for the truth. Unbelievable
Only just keeping up with the recent content. I’m from close to Liverpool and, despite not being a Liverpool FC fan, fully understand and respect the weight of the disaster and the impact it still has today. Good on you Daniel for covering this! Must not have been an easy watch for you. Respect.
I sat down with my dad (both seasoned football supporters) to watch this on TV (it was live on RTE for those that might not be from Ireland (North or South)). I will never forget it, it affected me deeply, really deeply; tears streaming down my 51 year old face typing this. I'm a Manchester United fan and 'You'll Never Walk Alone' holds a very special place in my heart. Thanks for looking at this.
Me and my dad both watched it live on RTE also. We are both Liverpool fanatics, the majority of Liverpool Saturday 3 o’clock games were live on RTE during the 80’s.
Seeing our fans come onto the pitch I was initially angry (with hysel still fresh in the memory) because it was shaping up to be another classic, things then turned when I saw people being given cpr, we were in shock for days, will never forget it. YNWA
As a scouser and Liverpool supporter I was once asked by a Manc why we always talk about this awful disaster. As you can imagine my initial response was total anger but then I took the time to explain how our city is a community, we all felt it, we all knew someone who was there. The 97 was utterly devastating but there was many more, people who were there who never recovered, some took their own lives, suffered from depression, had to move away, the consequences go on. My love and support goes to all the people who have been affected. My dad was also the printer who created the signs ‘Don’t by the Sun, Don’t by the Star’ I love that x
Daniel if u can please watch a 4 part tv programme called "Anne" its about a mothers campaign to clear her young sons name after he was crushed to death and authorities blamed him and others on them being unlawful hooligans. It happebed decades ago but the controversy is still happening in court cases even this week
You should watch the ravens eye on the Blackpool football stadium fire. Tragic, awful, sadly the kick up the backside football teams needed to sort out certain things to prevent further similar disasters
At first from title thought this was about the stadium that caught fire, rip 96
Just noticed you reacted 9 months ago to this on your own channel, shame Spencer wasn't here to join reaction for this channel
I remember that day, I also remember the shocking images in the various newspapers the day after. I am not from Liverpool nor do I live there but it affected me greatly. It was terrible.
You are so spot on it's 97 hun. Thank you for your reaction to this it's very much appreciated. xx YNWA xx
The Stadium Safety Officer got a £6500 fine, the police and ambulance service got off scot free, and it took 32 years for the victims to get compensation, just added insult to injury
Well yeah it was police but not only them could of prevented it the stadium owners should of had protocols in place they must of seen what was happening they should of shut the gates but they didn’t and what is it do to with the ambulance service it’s not their damn job it was the police fifa and the stadium owners and then you could blame some of the hooligans the way they was pushing to get inside if some had brains and didn’t try and push in cause many people must of pushed to get in but they was only thinking of them self and to watch the game and not the safety of your fellow supporters
@@davidware9549 It was hard to get any sense out that unpunctuated nonsense, but what comes through very clearly is that you have absolutely no understanding of what actually happened.
This is one of the most culturally significant events in modern Britain.
I remember watching this live on TV. You could see what was happening on tv but the police just stood and watched for ages. It was a terrible thing to witness live on tv
Yes, the game itself wasn't live on TV, but the tragedy was. In those days semi-finals weren't shown live, they were both 3pm on a Saturday
And also the design of the stadiums you use to enter and exit from the top and go forwards and there was standing areas after Hillsborough they changed the stadium to all seated and the entrance/ exit is at the at the bottom and have to walk up to your seat
Thanks for covering the Hillsborough Disaster as a Liverpool fan, it took until 2016 for the families to get a verdict of unlawful killing from this disaster and fans where getting blamed. Disgusting
As a Sheffield resident I remember this so well, it was horrendous. I worked as a football steward and have worked on the stand where most of the fatalaties happened, so sadm
It seems not right to give a like to this video but its a like for you spreading the truth as i'm sure all who have liked feel the same. The hell the victims dead and alive went through and the many years of hell the families were further put through. Bless all of them I teared up through seeing this again and good on you Daniel for reacting to it 🧡
Yes, very sad. Like in Belgien, Heysel Stadium, (1985) Liverpool-Juventus.....39 deaths and some 600 injuries.
Watch the Bradford stadium fire ...that is terrifying
I remember watching it live on TV. Its something you can never unsee. It breaks me every time I see footage of it.
Arias and the nation, 8 months ago, Daniel has reacted to it
@lennymarsh1323 me too, on Grandstand. They were going to cross live for the final whistle because Bradford had won Division 3 but instead we went live to a tragedy
I lived in Nottingham at the time and watching unfold live, i was heartbroken to see it happen. I love my football but for a few weeks i watch it.
RIP 96 who died 💔 💔
I still go cold every time i think of that day. God rest their soles. Paul from Stoke and Liverpool we stand with you.
Honestly, if I’d seen the situation outside the stadium, I’d have run a mile. This is absolutely terrifying. And it’s another of those cases where you’re just thinking it should never have happened, EVER! They passed away for absolutely nothing. Nothing. If you see this kind of crowd outside an event, for Gods sake don’t go inside. Chances are, there’s not nearly enough planning. Horrible.
are you serious? have you not been paying atttention. THERE WAS A CRUSH. no one could move even outside..Easy for you to sit in your home and pontificate. have some respect! if not for the dead or injured that day for their stil grieving family and friends. You cannot say whatr you would do.
plus people were pushed forward and couldn't see what was happening. i was once nearly in a crush and I was a police officer. it was in a corner of Trafalgar square where due to the crowd at a demo I got separated from my collegues. people came and moved back and back to my position and I had one hell of a job extradicting myself an dshouted and shouted for people to move.. not just for me.. for everyone. that went unreported. I tried to. no one listened to me. It was years ago during the Ambulance dispute.
There was also this one. The Bradford City stadium fire occurred during a Football League Third Division match on Saturday, 11 May 1985 at the Valley Parade stadium in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England, killing 56 spectators and injuring at least 265.
I was twelve years old when this happened. I live in a town very close to Liverpool and most of my friends were big LFC fans. I remember playing in the park and one person coming in saying something was going wrong and then the panic building as we all realised that something big was going on. Such an avoidable disaster!
The shop right next to the ground on Leppings Lane ( shown at 2.46 ) was converted back into a house shortly after this and became my home for a few years. The neighbours had harrowing stories to tell.
There was actually a docu drama created in 1996 directed by a guy called Jimmy Mcgovern called Hillsborough based on the events of that tragic day. It stars Christopher Eccleston (the first of the modern Dr. Whos) and Ricky Tomlinson, it is quite an emotional watch that will tear your heart apart, but I highly recommend it if you can track it down.
Oh sh*t, that made me cry again.
Damn.
Heartbreaking Daniel. The cover up by the British Establishment of what happened at Hillsborough made an horrific tragedy 10 times worse.
and Margaret Thatcher who internationally looks upon likes some great stateswomen ordered the files to be put away for 30 years
There are two brilliant dramatizations about this. One, "Hillsborough", from the 90s, is centered around the family of the two sisters, and the one from 2019 is about Kevin (the boy who was still alive at 3.28) and his mum's fight for justice along with the other families (called "Anne" after the mum).
My Dad and his brother were there at ths Nottingham end and just had to sit and watch it unfold.
RIP to the 97.. gone but not forgotten.
Also to those lost at the Bradford Stadium fire disaster..
and the Heizil Stadium disaster.
Growing up i was a huge Sunderland fan but this really affected me. I remember getting crushed in 1990 at roker park but nothing like this.
You should consider full documaries for RUclips or maybe patreon
I'm from the South of England but I, as well as everyone I spoke to, knew it wasn't the fans fault! How the victims and their families were treated was disgusting, the public knew the truth from one watch of the tragedy, we knew ❤
I was visiting Liverpool for the first time that weekend, for a hospital radio conference. In our hotel the staff were doing their jobs as normal, but crying at the same time.
Tottenham Hotspur fans nearly had a disaster at the same ground a few years earlier. Lessons were not learnt! Football fans used to be treated like cattle in those days. RIP
The near disaster was between Notting forest and Spurs 2 or 3 years before the Liverpool v Notts forest match The only reason he disaster was averted at the notts forest spurs was because the policeman in charge that day had policed many matches and saw the threat before kick off and asked the game to be put back 20 mins and got the staff to open the gates that police officer that at the notts forest v spurs match saved the day that day
@@kathnunan641There were 'incidents' also in 88 and 87 - but the big one which should have served as a major warning was 1981 with Spurs vs Wolves (*eight* years prior). How on earth this wasnt red flagged is beyond me
Heart breaking
Remember it well, it was definitely a police ball up ,may they all rest in peace 🙏❤️🇬🇧
Yeah it was the police but no only them it’s the owner of the stadium it like going into a shop it’s not the police that has to make u feel safe inside it’s the shop owners and the workers inside the stadium should of had protocols in place cause they should of seen what was happening way before and just close it off too many people where allowed it at once so its not all cause of the police but they also could of prevented it like many others could of too and then the animals how they was pushing inside don’t act like a hooligan should of had respect for one another but they didn’t they pushing
I was never a football fan, but remember this newsflash. It all unfolded live on TV. I watched as people managed to climb the fences and help each other to safety on the pitch, only for stewards and coppers to grab hold of them and throw them back into the cages and crowds .
It's unfathomable to think that you could go to a football game and not come back.
Liverpool manager Sir Kenny Dalglish (King Kenny) personally attended the funeral of every victim and resigned soon after due the mental strain.
The club has the eternal flame and number 97 on every shirt in their honour.
There was a documentary about Kenny about a year ago and he said in that that he still can't go near the Hillsborough Stadium because of the memories he gets.
Sir Kenny was at the Ibrox disaster as a fan,Heysel as a player and Hilsborough as the manager.That is a lot of psychological baggage.
This was horrific, a schoolfriend was there and he was killed. It is appalling that families had to face a fight for justice.
RIP
🔥97🔥
YNWA
I was 10 when this happened 😢 and remember seeing the photos in the newspapers of them poor people, stuck with me all these years.... And don't get me started on the Scum rag 😡 thank you for this reaction 🙏
People commented about the queue and how people in the U.K. loved to line up during the Queen's funeral. I wondered at the time if part of that was because of this event. If you lived through this (even if just on your local news) it would forever leave a scar.