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Re: UEFA Champions League 2015/16
Heysel? Not sure why you would bring that up? Liverpool have a memorial plaque, albeit it is in the corner of the car park at Anfield but it's there and it's free for the public. We also pay our respects every year with a minute silence. Juve has a small plaque hidden in a corner, they put it in their museum and charge full price entry to anyone who visits it every year. Not saying it was their fault but they show little interest in it and their younger supporters know little of it.
It was a tragedy, absolutely shocking but not just Liverpool were to blame. The competition organisers for having the game at an ancient, unsafe ground which was falling apart need to also be remembered. The ticketing which had little segregation of both sets of supporters in mind especially after the last time both teams played each other which was only 12 months before in Italy where 40 Liverpool supporters needed hospital treatment with many suffering stab wounds.
On the ferry over to France before the game there were many reports from independent people holidaying many of them families that had luggage stolen and thrown overboard and were subjected to violence from what were mostly young men wearing Liverpool scarves but also wearing different team shirts underneath their jackets. Hooligans looking to quench their thirst for trouble had to use Liverpool games because their own teams were shite and Liverpool was their ticket out of England. Which takes you back to the Organisers who weren't even checking supporters for tickets leading into the ground and many got in for free.
It doesn't change the fact that it was a tragedy and should never have happened and hopefully will never happen again.
Heysel? Not sure why you would bring that up? Liverpool have a memorial plaque, albeit it is in the corner of the car park at Anfield but it's there and it's free for the public. We also pay our respects every year with a minute silence. Juve has a small plaque hidden in a corner, they put it in their museum and charge full price entry to anyone who visits it every year. Not saying it was their fault but they show little interest in it and their younger supporters know little of it.
It was a tragedy, absolutely shocking but not just Liverpool were to blame. The competition organisers for having the game at an ancient, unsafe ground which was falling apart need to also be remembered. The ticketing which had little segregation of both sets of supporters in mind especially after the last time both teams played each other which was only 12 months before in Italy where 40 Liverpool supporters needed hospital treatment with many suffering stab wounds.
On the ferry over to France before the game there were many reports from independent people holidaying many of them families that had luggage stolen and thrown overboard and were subjected to violence from what were mostly young men wearing Liverpool scarves but also wearing different team shirts underneath their jackets. Hooligans looking to quench their thirst for trouble had to use Liverpool games because their own teams were shite and Liverpool was their ticket out of England. Which takes you back to the Organisers who weren't even checking supporters for tickets leading into the ground and many got in for free.
It doesn't change the fact that it was a tragedy and should never have happened and hopefully will never happen again.
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