Watching the FACup semi-final [onTV], April 15th 1989, I like many suddenly realised that members of the crowd were slowly getting crushed to death - 96 in all.
It happened at Hillsborough, the ground of Sheffield Wednesday, the logo above.
7 months later THE Wall came down, 9/11/1989 [ UK dating system].
Many have eyes to see but it seems that, often, only walls have ears
Last night Liverpool played at the Bridge
Very interesting aferrismoon-as always! I had totally forgotten about the 4-15 oor 15-4-89 deaths-if memory serves-which usually it doesn't anymore;-) I think I remember another soccer spectator disastor in the UK in 1985-will have to look it up-best to you as always -I admit this one has me stumped (so it is probably simple for everyone else) and I will have to think on it -all the best!!
ReplyDeleteI remember this as a news story back then. Followed the story up last night. The wall eclipsed it as an '80's benchmark moment though.
ReplyDeleteI like how my name is sprayed on the wall in that particular pic. I used to spray cans and one of my main buddies at the time was the one and only Peter...
Peter, who's still a good friend, has chunks of the wall in his posession hauled here (OZ) by European relatives...
The one in 1985 was at Heysel Stadium in Brussels, a match between Liverpool and Juventus, 39 dead.
ReplyDeleteI like the Wall sprayings as one says WALLY or maybe WALL Y [ why]
cheers both
Thanks aferris-I had made a note to come back to this -I finally had to stop asking so many questions on blogs and forget to come back I told someone the other day -again off of memory -maybe I shouldnt do this anymore -that in 1987 a British cargo/passenger ship went down -forgot how many died-it wasnt near as bad as the 1994 Estonian disaster-but I said the name of the vessel was "The Herald of Free Enterprise"-haha now I am afraid to look in case I was wrong -best to you as always!!
ReplyDeleteCool to see Stefan Js comment also-great stuff!
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