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Heysel disaster

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  • #202
    Ulysses Gaze
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,570 ✭✭✭Ulysses Gaze


    omega man wrote: »
    RIP.

    The 11 year boy who died with his father always stuck with me. How excited must he have been travelling abroad with his dad to watch his team play in a European cup final. The excitement of the build up and walking into the stadium and witnessing the colour and atmosphere. He must have been in awe of it all. Tragically he never left the stadium that night, never even saw the damn game, the celebrations and never returned home to his mother.

    Truly awful stuff and as a dad who brings his young kids to stadium matches regularly the story of this boy is always in my thoughts, particularly on the anniversary.

    Agreed, that is probably one of the most tragic stories from that awful night. A father and son just going to a game.

    The story of the 17 year old girl who was killed, Giuseppina Conti, always struck me as well. Just a kid going to a game with her father and then losing her life. Her father survived and found her dead. I can't even imagine how that would feel.

    It's a dark stain on Liverpool Football Club and hopefully the type of event we never see again. Anywhere.


  • #203
    [Deleted User]
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    Ulysses Gaze wrote: »
    It's a dark stain on Liverpool Football Club and hopefully the type of event we never see again. Anywhere.

    The month of a May 1985 gave us football's darkest days, without doubt. To think that Heysel and the Bradford fire happened within the same month, it was a staggering indictment of all that was wrong with the game at every level, violence, crumbling stadiums, a failure to address issues at every single level despite the Ibrox Stadium Disaster, despite Burnden Park. Yes, Hillsborough happened years later and that was singularly the most appalling tragedy in this part of the world...but that was a tragedy that transcended football and lay squarely at the door of controlling crowds, it is more akin to disasters like the Love Parade crush in 2010. May 1985 was when football hit its lowest point.


  • #204
    jaykay74
    Registered Users Posts: 6,586 ✭✭✭jaykay74


    RIP to those that died at Heysel 33 years ago today. I remember watching it unfold on tv but didn't really understand what was going on.


  • #205
    Rekop dog
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,584 ✭✭✭Rekop dog


    RIP to the 39 Juventi, especially the innocent kids among them who were victims of malicious hooliganism in the darkest hour of UEFA competitions.


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