To All Loyal Fans Of Liverpool!!
This is a Reminder that on the 15th of this month will be the 20th aniversery of the Hillsborough Disaster..It will be another time of the year when our hearts will be filled with pain and sorrow when we remember the disaster that took the lives of 96 liverpool scousters!!This article is a reminder for Those directly/indirectly touched by the disaster that;
''YOU WILL NEVER WALK ALONE''
In memory of the 96 who died, April 15th 1989. May they rest in peace and never be forgotten
What happened??
FA Cup quarter-final day and Liverpool, under Kenny Dalglish, put four past Brenford without reply to go through to their seventeenth FA Cup semi-final - a tie against the strong opposition of Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesdays Hillsborough stadium. Little did they know that the semi-final would turn out to be footballs most tragic day ever.
Liverpool were going strong in the league, very close to catching up with top of the table Arsenal. Impressive victories over Wednesday and Milwall eventually saw Liverpool back where they belonged - at the top of the table.
Cup semi-final day loomed as Pool would battle with Forest for the right to play Everton in the final of the cup. The script was written for LFC to win and go through to meet their local rivals in the final.
April 15th 1989 - footballs lowest day as ninety six Liverpool supporters lost their lives in front of the watching (in shock) world.
The match started as normal, it would seem to a viewer in another stand or watching television but in the Leppings Lane end of the stadium there was confusion. As thousands of supporters were crammed into terraced stand. Six minutes into the game, the referee blew a holt on proceedings and what has been the scene for a picture-book football match turned into a scene of mass chaos as policemen and first aid men rushed onto the pitch treating the bodies of the wounded and, sadly, the carrying the bodies of the dead.
Expressions of shock lay on the face of the survivors at Hillsborough that day along with the millions in disbeleif watching around the world - some, the families of the disasters victims. The death count went up as the evening progressed and supporters arrived back on Merseyside to scenes of greif and sadness. By Wednesday the death count was up to ninety-five with a ninety-sixth through further reasons to follow. The country was in a state of shock.
Just days later, Anfield was covered in flowers, scarves and banners with people of all football teams and positions in authority paying their respect. Prince Charles was amongst the first to lay flowers on Anfields Kop.
Investigations into the disaster followed with many fans showing that their ticket for the semi-final hadnt even been checked - still in its full tact. It was obvious that someone had opened too many gates at the Leppings Lane end, letting fans stream into an already full to capacity area surrounded by fencing meaning an overflow of fans were inside the enclosed area
In Memory Of our Fallen Scousters!!
YOU'll NEVER WALK ALONE!!
When you walk through a storm
Hold your head up high
And don't be afraid of the dark
At the end of the storm
Is a golden sky
And the sweet silver song of a lark
Walk on through the wind
Walk on through the rain
Tho' your dreams be tossed and blown
Walk on, walk on
With hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone
Walk on, walk on,
with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone
You'll never walk alone