It was tragic really, because the people who died were not the ones doing the spitting, but the innocent people at the back. But this problem was never seen as a Liverpool problem, or even a Merseyside one. I guess that was the only chance many English football hooligans had to travel abroad to cause mayhem, as their teams didnt provide them with that opportunity back then. Giuseppina Conti Dirk Daenecky Dionisio Fabbro Jacques Franois Eugenio Gagliano Francesco Galli Giancarlo Gonnelli Alberto Guarini Giovacchino Landini Roberto Lorentini Barbara Lusci Franco Martelli Loris Messore Gianni Mastrolaco Sergio Bastino Mazzino Luciano Rocco Papaluca Luigi Pidone Bento Pistolato Patrick Radcliffe Presumably even less so in Turin. Shades of 89 in the pre mobile phone era, nor shall I forget my Dad telling me of the hours he spent on the phone to a hospital in Brussels as they read out a list of the names of the dead & injured. and 39 innocent victims lost their lives. Ms Marten's father, Napier Marten (pictured), was a pageboy to Queen Elizabeth II before giving up his 115million fortune after an 'epiphany' that told him to flee his 'materialistic' life. I was a bit older, and it's when it happens to your own that you realise what the Italians had gone through. Thanks for this sensitive, balanced and honest article. WebThe actions of the minority of Liverpool supporters who charged the Z zone contingent at Heysel was inexcusable, however Juventus fans cannot be excused from blame. The simple rule that makes dieting easy: Only eat foods with fewer than FIVE ingredients - so can you guess how many are in these 'healthy' snacks? Riot police fired tear gas and pepper spray at Liverpool supporters forced to endure long waits to get into the Champions League final amid logistical chaos on Saturday. Addressing the hearing into events in the French capital on 28 May, Liverpool fans representatives described the terror of being attacked by police with teargas and pepper spray on one hand and gangs of local muggers and pickpockets on the other at the Stade de France before and after their match against Real Madrid. It was a tragedy for which many were culpable, but 20 years on, as the clubs prepare to meet for the first time since that night in Brussels, Liverpool and their supporters are still struggling to come to terms with their part in the disaster. What a terrible night for football regardless of who you support or who you blame. Coast built date. A coroner later ruled he was the 97th fatality and was unlawfully killed. In addition, more than 760 were injured. In the reports of the game there dis no mention of the disaster, just that penalty! We appear to have done great things linking up with other fans abroad, the liaisons with Borrusia and the Gate 21 supporters group being great examples, but guess Juve has been a bit nervy to approach as outlined in the article. sort of ceremonial blessing, like a minutes silence. How many Liverpool fans died at Hillsborough disaster? They did not need to act, however, as UEFA moved quickly to ban English clubs from Europe for an indeterminate period of time.. We stop on May 29 each year and think of them, and Liverpool fans too young to have seen it, or been there, look at their names and mourn. It was a moving moment of real reconciliation. As a British 17 year old Juve fan, I travelled to Heysel on the Liverpool train/ferry and stood on the terraces with the Livetpool fans. Only a few hundred caused the trouble that led to the deaths, Uefa were partly culpable for the stadium choice, ticket allocation and the stadium authorities for the pathetic segregation of fans & policing. Debate over the details continues. Well done Oliver, a truthful and painful piece of reading on a dark chapter of football. Of all the club sides affected by the ban, Liverpool were hardest hit, missing three European Cups, two UEFA Cups, and a Cup Winners Cup. The Heysel Stadium was never used for a football match again until it was demolished in 1994. In the interview the now missing mother described her love of the Swiss Alps and her trips volunteering in Nepal. In fact their fortunes didnt change until just before the ban on English clubs was lifted five years after Heysel. In 1974, a Bolton Wanderers fan attacked and stabbed to death a Blackpool supporter at Bloomfield Road. That has always saddened me. It might even seem a bit false.". A former classmate described Ms Marten as a 'very talented' actress who 'could have gone very far', before becoming estranged from her wealthy family. But you never hear of this because the tragedy is taboo. Did Liverpool fans blame Chelsea for Heysel? So was gendarme captain Johan Mahieu, who was in charge of the policing the stands at Heysel. There is nowhere really to leave such mementos although they have always been respected. I was in Rome the year before, it was a very hostile journey, I remember the scene as we entered Rome of kids in a playground shouting abuse at us and hurling missiles at the coach. Liverpool are a club touched by tragedy. It was only brought into the open when Liverpool and Juventus were drawn together in the Champions League quarter-final in 2005, at which point the Merseyside club, after consultation with their Italian counterparts, announced it would be a game of friendship. Heysel is an unspeakably awkward subject for Liverpool perhaps more, perhaps less, for the anguish the club and the city endured four years later at Hillsborough. At approximately 7 PM, local time, fans on both sides of the divide began picking up broken stones from the crumbling terrace construction, and hurling them over the fence. And where have you heard that before? At the 1984 European Cup Final, several Liverpool fans were attacked by Roma fans before and after the match, crimes that are well documented. Thirty-nine peoplemostly Italians and Juventus fanswere killed and 600 were injured in the confrontation. The prosecutions stemmed from television camera footage of the charge the third such charge in a matter of minutes that led directly to the deaths of those 39 innocent spectators. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Thirty-nine people died in Of the clubs first European Cup triumph in 1985, it says: The long-awaited success in Europe s highest accolade was tainted with sadness Something unexplainable happened . By posting your comment you agree to our house rules. Juventus supporters retreated until they were forced against a retaining wall that collapsed, killing 38 Italians and a Belgian. America wants answers, not your infuriatingly smug denial of a national scandal, Did the Hunter investigation turn Biden's lawyers into a 'cleaning crew?' Supporters of rival teams chant Murderers and the Liverpool fans have little response. Record defeat: 19 against Birmingham City in Second Division, 11 December 1954. There is nothing to suggest that any of them have come to any sort of intentional harm we just need to ensure they are okay, especially the baby, and do not require any medical assistance for any underlying issues. There is an opportunity albeit a further year down the line next May on the unbelievably 30th anniversary I really hope we mobilise to do somethings genuine and large. We dont need reciprocation but the lack of it undermines Liverpools great history. They were seen around Colchester on Friday January 6 and Saturday 7, when they took another taxi to East Ham Station in Newham, London, and were last seen. The ban on English clubs in Europe was indefinite, with the only proviso being that Liverpool FC would be banned for three years longer than the other English clubs. Little wonder then that 12 months later at Heysel Liverpool fans were packed cheek by jowl with Juventus fans trouble was bound to occur. One real mystery surrounding Heysel is that the tragedy is even more of a taboo in Turin. In Turin I asked at the tourist office about any memorial and was sent to the new ground on the edge of town. Let us know. I was not there, but have some strong memories of that evening. We all know that English football, collectively, was punished, with clubs excluded from Uefa competition. I do recall a massive banner with Reds animals written on it though. Liverpool fans breached the fence and charged. What you also forget is the fact that Liverpool had a tremendous knack of buying players when relevant unknowns and creating top class footballers. As kick-off approached, the number of missiles increased, again from both sides, until eventually a group of English fans charged and broke through the fence, causing many of the missile-throwing people on the edges of Z to retreat and pen the rest of the section against a broken down perimeter wall. by derekdwc - 1st Mar 2009 4:34pm. All I remember of the game was being allowed to stay up especially, to watch it on TV and being shocked at what I saw. When we arrived myself and a mate got on a tram to the Vatican and was told by a Roma fan that if they won the game we would be invited to the biggest party party ever, if they lost he advised us to get of Rome quickly or we would be seriously hurt. What about justice for Heysel?, they plead. Then of course, Hillsborough has perhaps added another fly in the ointment, so to speak, as well as understandably overshadowing it. Brussels has a large expatriate Italian community, and so many inevitably secured tickets for the Z section, which was set aside for neutral Belgian fans. Police are also concerned that the large sum of cash they may have could mean they could evade the police for a significant amount of time. Prior to Heysel the violence that season was at Millwall, Chelsea, West Ham and Leeds. "As soon as we got to Ostend and saw the reporters waiting we realised the party was over," Allt says. Heysel is a huge stain on Liverpool s history. Having spoken to Juve fans over the years about it, it seems many are more aware of the full details of what happened than fans of other clubs, and while some (a minority) still talk of revenge, many of them have shown a willingness to forgive. Now 43, he spent his youth following Liverpool's great European adventure largely for free, thanks to his skilful evasion of the authorities. The Suns The Truth splash days after the Hillsborough disaster was based on false information supplied by police to a local news agency which claimed Liverpool fans had picked pockets of victims and attacked first responders. They were all innocent. Then of course you have the fact that many rival supporters of other Italian clubs still use it as a cheap way to have a dig at them (by waving LFC scarves and banners, singing offensive songs etc), which will be something LFC fans can all relate to. Over time, there was a recognition that more much more needed to be done. Before she became estranged from her family, Ms Marten's family put the Dorset estate, included a Grade I-listed mansion, four villages, a cricket club and a lake, on the market in 2010 for 100million, before its sale to an American buyer. The police said exactly the same then, she said. Next to it is Kenny Dalglish's shirt from that night, a match programme, and the Juventus pennant Michel Platini handed to Phil Neal before the 1985 European Cup final eventually kicked off yards from where paramedics were counting the dead. They left on foot with their baby boy and have been missing since despite an extensive police search. Ten years before Heysel, during the 1975 European Cup Final between Leeds United and Bayern Munich, a large group of Leeds supporters attacked their German counterparts, as well as match officials and even the players, after a Peter Lorimer goal was controversially disallowed. After leaving the Vatican we went for a pint in a nearby bar, there appeared to be good banter with some Roma fans but then armed Police arrived and started pointing guns towards Liverpool fans, me and my mate gave it toes and hid in the bog inside the bar. May 29th 1985 will go down as one of footballs darkest days. Thirty-nine peoplemostly Italians and Juventus fanswere killed and 600 were injured in the confrontation. Approximately an hour before the JuventusLiverpool final was due to kick off, Liverpool supporters charged at Juventus supporters and breached a fence that was separating them from a neutral area. Your comment will be posted to MailOnline as usual. Some tried to climb a wall to escape. Ms Marten's father, Napier Marten, was a pageboy to Queen Elizabeth II before giving up his 115million fortune after an 'epiphany' that told him to flee his 'materialistic' life. Mark Gordon, 48, and partner Constance Marten, 35, have been at the centre of a nationwide police hunt for two weeks as fears have grown for the welfare of Miss Marten's newborn baby. Police believe they could be anywhere in the UK and are appealing to the public to come forward with any information that may help find them. It ended up at five years, with Liverpool serving a sixth as punishment for their supporters behaviour at Heysel. At least 30,000 Liverpool fans made the trip to Istanbul, but only 20,000 were expected to have tickets. Today a Belgian newspaper said the men had let down their club, their city and their country in an article with the headline: "Welcome in Belgium red Animals". Are Sun Journalists Still Banned From Anfield? I am proud of the support Evertonians have offered across the Park and to the innocent families who have carried the awful burden and indescribable pain of Hillsborough. At the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, before the scheduled kick-off of the European Cup final, 39 people lost their lives when a decaying wall collapsed under the pressure of scores of fleeing people during a period of crowd violence involving You wouldn't be able to forgive yourself if they became poorly. The 18-month investigation into the Heysel Stadium incident that killed 39 people placed primary blame squarely on supporters of the Liverpool team, one more episode in a lengthy history of violence by English fans at international competitions. Officially, the finger of blame was pointed squarely at the English fans. The club has decided that relatives of the victims will always be allowed permanent free access to the museum. Detective Superintendent Lewis Basford, who is leading the investigation, said:'Constance and Mark, I appeal directly to you, please think of your baby's health and wellbeing and get in touch with us so we can ensure your child is medically well and has no underlying issues. Judge is set to rule this week on claims from prison pen-pal, MMA fighter 'grandson', and real estate agent 'son' who all vie to inherit the murderer's $1M estate and rights to his music, art and writings, Chris Ford, the first player to hit three-pointer in the NBA and a three-time league champion with Boston Celtics, dies aged 74 after 10 seasons as a player and another decade as a head coach, Is this DeSantis' vision for an anti-nanny state America? The memorial is a tall plastic column with the names engraved inside it and a very short piece in Italian. Liverpool supporters were unfairly and wrongly blamed for the chaotic scenes at the Champions League final in Paris last season to divert attention from the real failure of the state and organisers, a French senate report has found. The Met Police have now taken over the investigation. On June 6, FIFA followed suit by banning English club teams from worldwide competitions. The biggest loser of all in terms of football, of course, was Liverpool, who were thoroughly dominant at the time and would probably have gone on to record more European honours during the late 1980s. Web1987: Liverpool fans to stand trial in Belgium. That was the case at Heysel, he says, dismissing stories that non-Liverpool fans infiltrated the support. Something fishy about your story. Why do Liverpool fans not mention Heysel? Perhaps, I thought, a befitting gesture could be made by the club to recognise and reflect this disaster. In the 1980s, Everton had encountered a new wave of prowess, winning the league twice in 1985 and 1987. For many years the bereaved met with what they perceived to be a sense of denial from Juventus about a disaster that overshadowed the clubs long-awaited first European Cup win. After the game we headed towards our coach, Roma fans were everywhere trying to pick off Liverpool supporters, I remember there was very little protection from the Police. Liverpool were resented by most other clubs during that period, because they had the massive financial advantage compared to any other European club. Thirty-nine people were crushed to death. Coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster by the British tabloid The Sun led to the newspapers decline in Liverpool and the broader Merseyside region, with organised boycotts against it. Incredible insensitivity from the club (and the parades organisers). Your email address will not be published. Andrew DevineAndrew Devine suffered life-changing injuries at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final in Sheffield, but survived until his death in July 2021. They were spotted in Harwich Port in Essex at around 9am on January 7. Fittingly the events of April 15 1989 have been taken to the heart of the club's identity as much as any of the on-field triumphs of the 70s and 80s. Later there was a round-up of the previous European Cup campaign, in which 1985/86 was identified as a watershed because it would be Liverpool s last for some time. Before the first leg at Anfield, Liverpool supporters held up a mosaic to form the word amicizia. The result of decades of unchecked, irresponsible yob culture like a cancer at the heart of English and European club football, together with the ridiculous and thoughtless actions of a few men at UEFA, it will forever be a day that changed everything about the beautiful game. My brother-in-law is a loyal Liverpool fan who was at Heysel and even he admits that the charge by the Liverpool fans was as a direct result of the appalling treatment him and others received in Rome. Some 200 officers are working on the search and have scoured through more than 200 hours of CCTV footage since the pair were last seen on January 7. Unfortunately, all clubs have had their hooligan element over the years, and I feel to lump all of our fans together as a disgrace is unfair and uncalled for. Nicholas Allt watched the tragedy unfold from on top of the wall at the back of block Z. Your email address will not be published. At Heysel stadium, although that is not what it is now known as in Brussels, I was pointed to a memorial, a similar sort of size and style to the Anfield one, quite high in the left hand side of the stadium as you face the grand entrance. One man remains in the UK awaiting trial for a separate offence. Sorry, with regards to the above comment it was more 250,000+ that lined the streets to welcome the team home, still no reports of any trouble though. Olympic bike star Mark Cavendish and his wife Peta were Now you see it Debbie McGee's riverside home floods again Young mother, 26, hanged herself after calling her Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. Defeats. 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