the one question that still hasn't been asked is why did the police felt
the need to open the gates in the first place.
The answer is because there was a load of pissed up scousers who got there late and tried t o cause trouble because they couldn't get in.
so in my opinion there fans caused it themselves.

So. you used to work for The Sun I see.

Your opinion is factually wrong.

The previous years the police filtered the crowds 100metres from the turnstiles and checked tickets because it was a known bottleneck. In 1989 they didn't. People who arrived at 2.30 were still waiting to get in at 2.55 and by then they had two thousand others behind them.

Edited by Kermit8 (01 Apr 2014 9.36pm)

As long as we do one for the Bradford fans & one to commemorate the victims of Heysel as well, then I'm in.
Also The Ibrox disaster could be another one and also The Munich Plane Crash as well.

It was indeed a tragic event, magnified as it was by the subsequent atrocious conduct of the police and baser elements of the press. However, there have been other, equally tragic events as others have mentioned, such as Ibrox, Heysel and Valley Parade which do not seem to attract the same level of public gushing when their respective anniversaries come round. We, as a club, don't even commemorate the anniversary of Paul Nixon's death, an event that, although dissimilar in scale, had a profound effect on the supporters of this club.

Is it because the Liverpudlian psyche seems to define itself through misery, 'hardship' and a victim culture? Is it coincidental that Liverpool has been described as 'The Self Pity Capital of Europe'? Why has Hillsborough leap-frogged other, equally dreadful, tragedies in the public imagination?

I am fully prepared to observe the silence at the Villa game but surely a 7 minute delay to the kickoff is a bit OTT. I also dislike this attitude of 'observe it or you're a c*nt' which seems to be all too prevalent these days.

It's got a little out of hand, in my view.