There was talk of a six part docu-series being released later this year called Heysel Bloc Z. Be interesting to see the reaction to it.
I remember watching a few documentaries a while back. I think it was around 2005 to mark 20 years.
They had Liverpool fans on and they were just blaming everyone else apart from themselves. I just find it so crass. Yes the stadium was shite but people forget most stadiums back then were crap.
What I found most distasteful was the claim that if the juventus fans had stood there ground and not ran then a tragedy would have been avoided.
Look I’m not for one second saying that those fans were looking to kill the juventus fans but unfortunately it worked out that way in the most horrific of circumstances.
As a club they should have admitted that and dealt with it. Rather you have Chelsea fans being blamed for it the next day by the Liverpool chairman.
I know Liverpool are probably ashamed of it and would rather it be out of the public eye but it did happen and people died.
Rather than hide away behind the blaming of uefa or the police or Chelsea they should take it on the chin and deal with it.
If they did I believe they would get a little bit more respect from other fans etc.
That some use heysel as a form of “banter “ by other fans is abohorent as is singing songs or mocking hillsborough because of heysel as in some way it’s justified because of it.
Both are horrific tragedies and both were totally avoidable and equally both are entirely different on circumstance and blame. For hillsborough I’ve read and watched a lot and although the police were under tremendous pressure that day wrong decisions were made that lead to the deaths of innocent people the majority of whom were kids.
The police that day had no intention of causing a disaster but one evolved before their very eyes and should have been avoided. To read that even after that maybe 30 or so people could have been saved of for correct medical attention does not bear thinking about.
The problem as well as Duckinfield lied almost instantly when asked what had happened. From then on there was no coming back and the chain of events then spiralled that they had to pin the blame on the fans.
Hindsight I know but sometimes holding your hands up and saying I’ve made a mistake, I panicked I’m human I thought I was doing the right thing to prevent death or serious injury from occurring outside.
Yes it would not absolved him or the police of blame but maybe it wouldn’t have taken 30 years of pain to get to the truth.
Sorry I’ve rambled on a bit there.
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