Hillsborough Disaster! Justice to the 96!

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The Hillsborough Disaster was a deadly human crush that occurred on April 15, 1989, at Hillsborough, a football stadium home to Sheffield Wednesday in Sheffield, England resulting in the deaths of 96 people (all fans of Liverpool Football Club).

The match was an FA cup semi-final between Liverpool FC and Nottingham Forest FC. It was abandoned six minutes into the first half.

The inquiry into the disaster, the Taylor Report, named the cause as failure of police control, and resulted in the conversion of many football stadiums in the United Kingdom to all-seater and the removal of barriers at the front of stands.

The result was that an influx of thousands of fans through a narrow tunnel at the rear of the terrace, and into the two, already overcrowded central pens, caused a huge crush at the front of the terrace, where people were being pressed up against the fencing by the weight of the crowd behind them. The people entering were unaware of the problems at the fence— police or stewards would normally have stood at the entrance to the tunnel if the central pens had reached capacity, and would have directed fans to the side pens, but on this occasion they did not, for reasons which have never been fully explained.

For some time, the problem at the front was not noticed by anybody other than those affected; the attention of most people was absorbed by the match, which had already begun. It was not until 3:06 pm that the referee, after being advised by the police, stopped the match several minutes after fans had started climbing the fence in order to escape the crush. By this time, a small gate in the fencing had been forced open and some fans escaped via this route; others continued to climb over the fencing, and still other fans were pulled to safety by fellow fans in the West Stand directly above the Leppings Lane terrace.

Fans were packed so tightly in the pens that many died standing up. The pitch quickly started to fill with people sweating and gasping for breath, sporting crush injuries, and with the bodies of the dead. The police, stewards and ambulance service present at the stadium were overwhelmed. Uninjured fans helped as best they could, many attempting CPR and some tearing down advertising hoardings to act as makeshift stretchers.

As these events unfolded, some police officers were still being deployed to make a cordon three-quarters of the way down the pitch, with the aim of preventing Liverpool supporters reaching the Nottingham Forest fans at the opposite end of the stadium. Some fans attempted to break through the police cordon to ferry injured supporters to waiting ambulances, and were forcibly turned back.

Aftermath

A total of 94 people died on the day, with 766 other fans being injured and around 300 being taken to hospital. Four days later, the death toll reached 95 when 14-year-old Lee Nicol died in hospital from his injuries. The final death toll became 96 in March 1993, when Tony Bland died after remaining in a coma for nearly four years.

With the match receiving live television coverage on BBC Television's Grandstand programme, the disaster unfolded in front of a live television audience, resulting in an extreme emotional impact on the general British population.

A permanent tribute to those who lost their lives can be found alongside the Shankly Gates at Anfield, home stadium of Liverpool F.C. A further tribute was set up in 1999 at Hillsborough stadium itself. There is also a memorial stone in the pavement on the south side of Liverpool Cathedral.

Videos :

Memorial Service

Anfield Memorial

Na dan 15 april ovako su izgledale vesti o katastrofi a sa desne strane moci cete da pogledate minijaturni video, klikom na play video.

BBC on the 15th of April

R.I.P. 96

YNWA!

Edited April 15, 2008 by arct!c

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Unapred se izvinjavam svima koje nervira sto kacim vesti sa hr sajta ali na nasima jednostavno nema, a i prestao sam da ih posecujem.

15. April, dan kada fudbal sustize mracna proslost

NA TAJ sudbonosni dan, tisuće navijača Liverpoola otputovalo je u Sheffield kako bi bodrilo svoju momčad u polufinalu FA kupa protiv Nottingham Foresta, a strašna nesreća koja je uslijedila, u kojoj je 96 ljudi izgubilo život, obišla je svijet.

19 godina je prošlo, a bol vjerojatno nikada neće prestati, komentiraju svjedoci ove najstrašnije nesreće u povijesti nogometa. Podsjetimo se kako je sve to izgledalo.

Stadion Hillsborough u Sheffieldu je za sve velike susrete bio podijeljen na dva dijela kako bi razdvojio suparničke navijače. Navijači Liverpoola smješteni su tako na tzv. The Leppings Lane tribinu. Početak utakmice je bio zakazan za 15 sati, a navijačima je bilo preporučeno da zauzmu svoja mjesta nekih 15 minuta prije početka.

Između 14:30 i 14:40h, velika grupa navijača okupila se na malom prostoru ispred ulaska na tribinu, sa željom da brzo uđe na stadion kako ne bi propustila početak utakmice. Kako ulaz nije bio u stanju primiti tako mnogo navijača za tako kratko vrijeme, policija je odlučila otvoriti posebnu kapiju koja je namijenjena isključivo za izlaz sa stadiona.

Nakon toga gomila navijača prolazi kroz tunel sve do već prepuna dva centralna ograđena dijela tribine, napravivši veliku gužvu na prednjem dijelu tribine, gdje su ljudi na dnu bili sasvim pritisnuti uz ogradu težinom gomile koja se nalazila iza njih.

Ljudi koji su ulazili na stadion nisu bili opće svjesni problema, kao ni policija i redari, koji inače stoje na ulazu u tunel i u slučaju punjenja centralnih dijelova tribine, navijače šalju na bočne dijelove. No, na ovoj utakmici to nije bio slučaj, iz razloga koji nikada nisu u potpunosti razjašnjeni.

Kako je pažnja većine ljudi bila je usmjerena na susret koji je već bio počeo, nitko nije primijetio što se događa, dok sudac, kojeg je obavijestila policija, nije prekinuo meč nekoliko minuta nakon što su navijači počeli da se penju na ogradu kako bi izbjegli pritisak. Do tog trenutka, mala kapija na ogradi je otvorena silom i neki navijači su uspjeli da pobjegnu, dok su se drugi nastavili penjati preko ograde.

Navijači su bili pribijeni jedan uz drugog tako blizu da su mnogi umrli stojeći, a teren se brzo počeo puniti prestravljenim ljudima, ali i povrijeđenima te mrtvim tijelima. Policije, redara i hitne pomoći na stadionu nije bilo dovoljno da pomogne svima. Ostali navijači pomagali su koliko su mogli, pružajući umjetno disanje, dok su drugi čak lomili reklamne panoe praveći od njih nosila kako bi iznijeli povrijeđene.

Ukupno 94 navijača poginulo je u toj strašnoj nesreći, a broj povrijeđenih popeo se na 766, dok je njih 300-njak odvedeno u bolnicu. Četiri dana kasnije, broj mrtvih porastao je na 95 kada je četrnaestogodišnja Lee Nicole preminula u bolnici od posljedica povreda, dok je u ožujku 1993. godine preminuo i Tony Bland, nakon što je skoro četiri godine proveo u komi.

V.B

I navijaci Celtic-a su na prosloj ligaskoj utakmici odali pocast svom bratskom klubu :

Edited April 15, 2008 by arct!c