Post by davidbailey on Dec 24, 2012 14:20:15 GMT
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The Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 was the culmination of three years of people going off to watch a game of football, but who never returned home.
For me, the Hillsborough tragedy was the worst to bear because the death and suffering was right before my eyes as the BBC beamed it straight into my living room. You didn’t want to watch, but you did so while all the time praying these poor people could be saved from the unimaginable hell they were in.
People hopelessly fighting for their lives while the police just stood there like a rabbit caught in a cars headlights. If it hadn’t been for a lot of decent Liverpool fans taking control the death toll would have been far, far greater than the 96 who died. You could see these poor people pleading for the police to do something, but what they did was much too little and certainly much too late.
You keep images in your mind that you wish were not there, mine is of helpless men, woman and children dying in front of me, and the fact I couldn’t do anything to help will stay with me until the day I die.
The Bradford City FC fire on the 11th May 1985 where 56 people died, following on a month after the Heysel disaster when 39 people passed away, were also beamed into our lives through the media of television. We were not aware then that people had died until the news reports started trickling in to inform us of the pain, suffering and horrendous death suffered by people just because they happened to go to a football match. Thank God we were shielded from those images.
Let’s hope it never happens again, especially as the police have now been trained to cope with emergencies like the Hillsborough, Bradford City and Heysel Stadium disasters, well they have, haven’t they?
The Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 was the culmination of three years of people going off to watch a game of football, but who never returned home.
For me, the Hillsborough tragedy was the worst to bear because the death and suffering was right before my eyes as the BBC beamed it straight into my living room. You didn’t want to watch, but you did so while all the time praying these poor people could be saved from the unimaginable hell they were in.
People hopelessly fighting for their lives while the police just stood there like a rabbit caught in a cars headlights. If it hadn’t been for a lot of decent Liverpool fans taking control the death toll would have been far, far greater than the 96 who died. You could see these poor people pleading for the police to do something, but what they did was much too little and certainly much too late.
You keep images in your mind that you wish were not there, mine is of helpless men, woman and children dying in front of me, and the fact I couldn’t do anything to help will stay with me until the day I die.
The Bradford City FC fire on the 11th May 1985 where 56 people died, following on a month after the Heysel disaster when 39 people passed away, were also beamed into our lives through the media of television. We were not aware then that people had died until the news reports started trickling in to inform us of the pain, suffering and horrendous death suffered by people just because they happened to go to a football match. Thank God we were shielded from those images.
Let’s hope it never happens again, especially as the police have now been trained to cope with emergencies like the Hillsborough, Bradford City and Heysel Stadium disasters, well they have, haven’t they?