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Originally Posted by jambutty

24 years ago on the 29th May 1985 a contingent of Liverpool hooligan fans inside the Heysel Stadium in Brussels for the European Cup Final, stampeded towards rival fans after exchanging a series of insults with them an hour before the schedule kick-off time. The crush caused a dividing wall to collapse and the Juventos fans, in trying to get away from the advancing hoards of Liverpool FC hooligans, got trampled in the rush. 39 Italian and Belgian fans were killed and hundreds injured.

See Heysel Stadium Disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In light of the deaths the result was immaterial but for the record Juventus 1 (a penalty taken by Platini) Liverpool 0.

There used to be a saying about Liverpool fans – “you can take a Liverpool fan anywhere twice. The second time to apologise for his/her behaviour the first time.

UEFA banned all English clubs from any of the three European competitions of the day but after heavy and prolonged lobbying by the FA, the ban was lifted after five years. Thanks a bunch Liverpool hooligans. The whole footballing country was made to suffer because of you. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/768380.stm

It took LFC 15 years to commemorate the disaster. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/768142.stm

So what happened to a commemoration service on the 29th?

But then it was Johnny Foreigner who got killed so there is no need to commemorate annually even though the Liverpool hooligan hoard was directly responsible for their deaths. Some even got charged with manslaughter.

A clear case of double standards.

Out of curiosity I looked at the official LFC web site to see if there was any mention of Heysel. There wasn’t but I did find the following at http://www.anfield-online.co.uk/opinion/nick/2009/champions-league-result/

So the vitriol is being stirred by an official contributor to the web site and thus the club for allowing such ravings to be posted.

I also searched the Manchester United official web site at http://www.manutd.com/ but I couldn’t find any similar comments about LFC.

I think that, that says it all.

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