The Hillsborough Family Support Group & the club is also organising this match: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/mar/14/kenny-dalglish-hillsborough-charity-match
I know there are posters on here with their own personal stories of the tragedy, and even though others like myself, who were thousands of kilometres away when it happened and weren't there first hand, as a parent and a fan the events of that day still bring a tear to my eye. My thoughts go out to anyone affected by this tragedy, and keep in mind that you will never walk alone.
For those who can not imagine what it was like, some personal accounts of the day: http://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/mar/15/hillsborough-disaster-survivors
The Merseyside half of the family are the Bennetts. Such a long journey to the truth, so much longer to justice. So many tears. But the families will never walk alone.
Will definitely spill a few tears. I started supporting the club just after this happened - I remember the tears in the eyes of my coach as he talked about that day. YNWA
The Justice Bell A schoolboy holds a leather ball in a photograph on a bedroom wall the bed is made, the curtains drawn as silence greets the break of dawn. The dusk gives way to morning light revealing shades of red and white , which hang from posters locked in time of the Liverpool team of 89. Upon a pale white quilted sheet a football kit is folded neat with a yellow scarf, trimmed with red and some football boots beside the bed. In hope, the room awakes each day to see the boy who used to play but once again it wakes alone for this young boy’s not coming home. Outside, the springtime fills the air the smell of life is everywhere viola’s bloom and tulips grow while daffodils dance heel to toe. These should have been such special times for a boy who’d now be in his prime but spring forever turned to grey in the Yorkshire sun, one April day. The clock was locked on 3.06 as sun shone down upon the pitch lighting up faces etched in pain as death descended on Leppings Lane. Between the bars an arm is raised amidst a human tidal wave a young hand yearning to be saved grows weak inside this deathly cage. A boy not barely in his teens is lost amongst the dying screams a body too frail to fight for breath is drowned below a sea of death His outstretched arm then disappears to signal 25 years of tears as 96 souls of those who fell await the toll of the justice bell. Ever since that disastrous day a vision often comes my way I reach and grab his outstretched arm then pull him up away from harm. We both embrace with tear-filled eyes I then awake to realise it’s the same old dream I have each week as I quietly cry myself to sleep. On April the 15th every year when all is calm and skies are clear beneath a glowing Yorkshire moon a lone scots piper plays a tune. The tune rings out the justice cause then blows due west across the moors it passes by the eternal flame then engulfs a young boys picture frame. His room is as it was that day for 25 years it’s stayed that way untouched and frozen forever in time since that tragic day in 89. And as it plays its haunting sound tears are heard from miles around they’re tears from families of those who fell awaiting the toll of the justice bell.
I was born 25 day after the tragedy. Seeing how much I've lived, it's sad to see that those affected by it still can't even feel the minor satisfaction of the responsible parties to suffer the consequences. Although I'm not from England, I feel a tremendous connection to Liverpool FC, I've supported them since I've been 9. I can't go through listening to Fields of Anfield Road without tears in my eyes, and can't listen to YNWA without thinking of those 96 and their (and some of yours) families. I hope I'll get to pay my respects to them one day. All of you who have lost someone on that day have a world-wide family on your side, and I believe all of us are waiting with you for the day that will bring justice for the 96.
Why isn't Diouf playing?!?!?!?! No Finnan? World team needs a few more players. Thought for sure Dudek, Westerveld or Friedel would play. Anelka doesn't have anything to do right now, why isn't he showing up?
Reminder - "Hillsborough" premieres Tuesday, April 15th @ 8 ET on ESPN. It is the first of the 30 for 30 - Soccer Stories. http://espn.go.com/30for30/film?page=hillsborough
Quick stop in to pay my respects. Good job to all for keeping this alive (not just on BS but out in the "real" world)
Daniel Gordon is a brave man in making this documentary. I sincerely hope that he gets it right. As for the teams, we got a glimpse of most of these Liverpool players in the last "Liverpool Connected." Including Djimmy! Oh and Young "Arry.
http://espn.go.com/30for30/film?page=hillsborough This was posted above - but read the directors take on the page - I have really really high hopes for this. Hope this clears up some wildly uninformed views of the wider public (outside England though one can argue that a lot of the public in England still need educating)
I think for a lot of Americans this is going to be their first introduction to Hillsborough. Even people who call themselves "EPL fans" don't really know about it. It got some coverage over here at the time but honestly it was just seen as "hooligans being hooligans". Almost all of the 30 for 30's have been excellent, I expect this one to be as well.