View Original Topic: Hillsborough 20 years on

Posted By: Steve - SJD

‘We just went to a football match and people died’ By Bejay Browne Football fans commemorate Hillsborough 20 years on SURVIVORS OF the Hillsborough disaster, Liverpool supporters and football fans will meet in Paphos harbour today, to commemorate 20 years since the deadly disaster, where 96 people lost their lives. For Paphos resident and avid Liverpool fan, Steven Theaker, April 15 will be a particularly hard day, as he remembers the emotions and horror that unfolded before his eyes “It’s hard to believe it was twenty years ago, and I still find it very hard to talk about,” he said. Theaker, 44, is originally from Kirby in Liverpool, and was at Hillsborough stadium, home to football team Sheffield Wednesday, on a sunny April day in 1989, along with thousands of other avid fans, to watch Liverpool play Nottingham forest in the FA cup semi finals. “I’m known for my superstitious nature at football matches, as I was at the Heysel stadium disaster in 1985 [where 39 football fans died in a riot in Belgium].” Theaker, who is still a season ticket holder, had been to the stadium for the semi-finals the year before and even then it had seemed “a bit chaotic” to him. [ Read More ] Copyright © Cyprus Mail 2009

Posted By: Jan

It must have been awful to be at that match that day and the fear must have been too much. The two girls that died together Sarah and Victoria who their father said today on the news he misses every single day and wonders just what their lives could have been like now. How very sad. Living in the Merseyside area we will be all sad today. The bells will ring on the churches for us to remember all those who lost their lives. May we never forget and learn from the tragedy so that it can never happen again. Jan

Posted By: carol

Mr hicks spoke on football focus on saturday when he said 1daughter was in the ambulance and his 2nd daughter was lying on the pitch he had to make a decision no father should have to it just broke me up god bless the 96 YNWA.

Posted By: Tina Torment

Forever in my thoughts......... Thank you lord for returning my fella back traumatised but unscathed. The sons of friends were not so fortunate. May the Sun newspaper rot in hell!!!

Posted By: salopman

We Remember them