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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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I was 12 years old when I set off from my home in Derbyshire on the morning of 15 April 1989 for Hillsborough, for the FA Cup semi-final between my team, Nottingham Forest, and Liverpool that afternoon.
To this day, I can still vividly remember the bright sunshine, the traffic leading into Sheffield, eating sandwiches by the river behind the South Stand where my ticket was for, the ground filling up, the two pens behind the goal in the Liverpool end being much fuller than the ones either side, the match kicking off, Beardsley hitting the bar, a huge surge behind the Liverpool goal, an inflatable banana not returning back up the terrace, the fans coming over the fences, the fear of it being trouble, the injured being stretchered across the pitch on advertising boards, the line of police across the middle of the pitch, Dalglish on the tannoy, the lone Liverpool supporter breaking through the police corden and then falling to his knees and screaming in front of the Forest fans in the Kop, the match eventually being officially abandoned, someone saying five people were dead as we silently filed out of the ground, that figure rising all the way back to the car where the radio said it was fifty, sitting in silence in the car for ages and ages whilst my friend's Dad went to find a phone to ring my parents, the traffic being completey stationary for hours and it being dark when I got home.
The next day I found out that an 18 year old lad who lived round the corner from me and was a big Liverpool fan had not made it home that night. He had been killed whilst his mate had been pulled up into the stand behind during the crush. I'd been to the Forest v Liverpool league match at the City Ground that season with the both of them.
This book brings the memories of that awful day flooding back and at times made me openly cry. Despite thinking about it every single day since, I've not been able to read anything about that day for 19 years until now. I'm glad I have now though, because this story should NEVER be allowed to be forgotten or distorted. The book tells the story by letting the day unfold exactly as it did in the eyes of the people who were there and were affected by that awful, awful day.
96 RIP.
To this day, I can still vividly remember the bright sunshine, the traffic leading into Sheffield, eating sandwiches by the river behind the South Stand where my ticket was for, the ground filling up, the two pens behind the goal in the Liverpool end being much fuller than the ones either side, the match kicking off, Beardsley hitting the bar, a huge surge behind the Liverpool goal, an inflatable banana not returning back up the terrace, the fans coming over the fences, the fear of it being trouble, the injured being stretchered across the pitch on advertising boards, the line of police across the middle of the pitch, Dalglish on the tannoy, the lone Liverpool supporter breaking through the police corden and then falling to his knees and screaming in front of the Forest fans in the Kop, the match eventually being officially abandoned, someone saying five people were dead as we silently filed out of the ground, that figure rising all the way back to the car where the radio said it was fifty, sitting in silence in the car for ages and ages whilst my friend's Dad went to find a phone to ring my parents, the traffic being completey stationary for hours and it being dark when I got home.
The next day I found out that an 18 year old lad who lived round the corner from me and was a big Liverpool fan had not made it home that night. He had been killed whilst his mate had been pulled up into the stand behind during the crush. I'd been to the Forest v Liverpool league match at the City Ground that season with the both of them.
This book brings the memories of that awful day flooding back and at times made me openly cry. Despite thinking about it every single day since, I've not been able to read anything about that day for 19 years until now. I'm glad I have now though, because this story should NEVER be allowed to be forgotten or distorted. The book tells the story by letting the day unfold exactly as it did in the eyes of the people who were there and were affected by that awful, awful day.
96 RIP.
12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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The Day of the Hillsborough Disaster is a poignant, provocative, and, at times, heart wrenching account of the day 96 Liverpool fans died on the Leppings Lane Terrace at Hillsborough.
Everyone had high hopes for a great day and an exciting match. The normalcy of lives on the morning of April 15th - families packing picnic lunches, dads wondering what the team line up would be, young kids saying goodbye to anxious mothers - creates an ever-more somber introduction to the fateful day.
The narrative accounts from survivors of the disaster are harrowing in their honesty and intensity. Onlookers could only stand and watch as the horrors unfolded - frustrated in their helplessness. And the shocking and callous way that some families, looking for their loved ones after the tragedy, were treated is heartbreaking.
For anyone wanting an "as it happens" account of the events at Hillsborough - reading the experiences of bereaved parents, survivors, police, medical staff, and TV sports presenters - this is a must.
There is no sensationalism, no embellishment. This is an honest, tragic tale, told by those who were there, in an attempt to find the answer, Why?
Julie Pankratz
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
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Anyone who remembers hillsborough occurring on TV or the news should read this book. It is insightful and at times completely heart wrenching. it shows the disaster from a variety of perspectives: fans,survivors,police,medical staff and most importantly the loved ones left bereaved. The book builds the atmosphere of the day from anticipation of a great sporting event, through the graphic trauma of the event itself into the anger and pain at the aftermath and emergency repsonse. It fills the reader with very strong feelings and I could not put this book down until i had read every word. This is probably the best book I have ever read and every football fan should read it.
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Hillsborough
If you can place where you were and what you were doing when the world stood still at 15:06 on April 15th 1989, you must read this book.
Published 20 months ago by karie
touching and informative
i found this book very informative about all aspects of the disaster coming from all angles. The naritive style makes for easy reading with shortish statements from those who were... Read more
Published on 9 April 2009 by Alan Tickner
sadly brilliant
this is a book you obviously would neither want to read or expect to read but once you start it is impossible to put down. Read more
Published on 21 Mar 2008 by jim bean
Another good one....
I bought and read this book immediately after having read Anne Williams' book, When you walk through the storm. Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2007 by Mr. I. J. Houghton
... every now and then I cried my eyes out ...
the authors decided to tell the story of this unbelievable disaster from the view of those affected which makes this book that touching and emotional - and I believe... Read more
Published on 9 May 2006 by Roswitha Stangl
Harrowing
This is a deeply disturbing yet thoroughly gripping account of those terrible events which those who watched them unfold will never forget. Read more
Published on 30 April 2003
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