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  Tuesday 15th April 2008 will be the nineteenth anniversary of the disaster in Sheffield that cost 96 fellow fans their lives. 
As is our custom, the Hillsborough Family Support Group are organising a memorial service to mark the occasion and to remember those who died.
 
The service will be inter-denominational and will take place on the Kop at Anfield. It will commence at 2.45pm, include a minute's silence at 3.06pm and conclude at about 3.30pm with the singing of 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.
 
Tickets are not required and we extend an open invitation to you to join the families, the Directors, officials and players of LFC plus thousands of fellow football fans in our annual act of remembrance.
 
This year is expected to be exceptionally well attended and we would ask that you allow adequate time and plan to be in your seats by about 2pm.
 
We light a candle to remember each individual life that was extinguished prematurely and we rely upon the eternal flame of the Hillsborough Memorial to burn some light into the darkest night.
 
For many, Tuesday April 15th will be just a normal working day and there will be others who are unable to attend - despite wishing otherwise. We invite them to join us in spirit and spare a thought, say a private prayer or even light a candle in their minds.
 
Phil Hammond
HFSG Chairman 



YNWA

A day that many football fans ( not just liverpool) will never forget.

YNWA

I still boycott that Murdoch rag - is it still persona no grata in Liverpool?

YNWA!

Pretty much, shops do seem to sell it now, but I dont think many copies are sold.

RIP the 96.

YNWA.

In all our thoughts

YNWA

The Justice Bell
 by DAVE KIRBY


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A schoolboy holds a leather ball
in a photograph on a bedroom wall
the bed is made, the curtains drawn
as silence greets the break of dawn.

The dusk gives way to morning light
revealing shades of red and white
which hang from posters locked in time   
of the Liverpool team of 89.

Upon a pale white quilted sheet
a football kit is folded neat
with a yellow scarf, trimmed with red
and some football boots beside the bed

In hope, the room awakes each day
to see the boy who used to play
but once again it wakes alone
for this young boy’s not coming home.

Outside, the springtime fills the air
the smell of life is everywhere
violas bloom and tulips grow
while daffodils dance heel to toe.

These should have been such special times
for a boy who’d now be in his prime
but spring forever turned to grey
in the Yorkshire sun, one April day.

The clock was locked on 3.06
as sun shone down upon the pitch
lighting faces etched in pain
as death descended on Leppings Lane.

Between the bars an arm is raised
amidst a human tidal wave
a young hand yearning to be saved
grows weak inside this deathly cage.

A boy not barely in his teens
is lost amongst the dying screams
a body too frail to fight for breath
is drowned below a sea of death

His outstretched arm then disappears
to signal eighteen years of tears
as 96 souls of those who fell
await the toll of the justice bell.

Ever since that disastrous day
a vision often comes my way
I reach and grab his outstretched arm
then pull him up away from harm

We both embrace with tear-filled eyes
I then awake to realise
it’s the same old dream I have each week
as I quietly cry myself to sleep.

On April the 15th every year
when all is calm and skies are clear
beneath a glowing Yorkshire moon
a lone Scots piper plays a tune

The tune rings out the justice cause
then blows due west across the moors
it passes by the eternal flame
then engulfs a young boy’s picture frame

His room is as it was that day
for eighteen years it’s stayed that way
untouched and frozen forever in time
since that tragic day in 89.

And as it plays its haunting sound
tears are heard from miles around
they’re tears from families of those who fell

Awaiting the toll of the justice bell

Jesus Booder, give us a warning when you post stuff like that mate.  :'(

Beautiful poem though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZrVfMRyoE0

This was 4 days after the Hillsborough disaster.  Brilliant tribute.

YNWA

Rest in Peace...................


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Thomas Anthony Howard (14)
James Gary Aspinall (18)
Eric George Hughes (42)
Kester Roger Marcus Ball (16)
Alan Johnston (29)
Gerard Bernard Patrick Baron (67)
Christine Anne Jones (27)
Simon Bell (17)
Gary Philip Jones (18)
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John McBrien (18)
Peter Andrew Burkett (24)
Marion Hazel McCabe (21)
Paul William Carlile (19)
Joseph Daniel McCarthy (21)
Raymond Thomas Chapman (50)
Peter McDonnell (21)
Gary Christopher Church (19)
Alan McGlone (28)
Joseph Clark (29)
Keith McGrath (17)
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Lee Nicol (14)
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Paul Anthony Hewitson (26)
Martin Kevin Traynor (16)
Carl Darren Hewitt (17)
Kevin Tyrrell (15)
Nicholas Michael Hewitt (16)
Colin Wafer (19)
Sarah Louise Hicks (19)
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Victoria Jane Hicks (15)
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Nice banner put together by the Green Brigade.

Bandit, is this banner out regularly or just close to the anniversary? or is it a new one?

It's been around for a few years now.  Brought out every year, and if we ever play.

YNWA.

ok, cheers. was wondering why I've never seen it before

That banner is only a year old, we have had similar banners before that are flown whenever we play Liverpool or near to the Anniverssary.

I'll be hoping to make a trip down for this, anyone up for a beer?

http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-fc/liverpool-fc-news/2008/04/15/hillsborough-liverpool-fc-to-play-celtic-fc-in-benefit-match-at-anfield-64375-20768182/

whats the reason for a minutes silence/applause during the game?

never seen that before.




also what do you think the ref is saying to the real forward, near the end of the silence

I'd be up for that bandit. Assuming we can get tickets for the game.

Tickets won't be a problem mate.  I should be able to sort them out just need to remember me next year can someone get Portfolio to bump this thread then.

It was 4 days after the Hillsborough disaster.  The game was stopped after 6 minutes, the same time the match at Hillsborough was stopped.

Why are Celtic facing Liverpool in a Hillsborough benefit game??? surely it should be between the 2 teams that faced up to each other on the actual day???

There are a number of reasons.  One is that Celtic did a lot at the time to support Liverpool, and there have been strong ties between the clubs.

The second reason is to do with the person in your avatar.  He wrote comments about the Hillsborough disaster that weren't very complimentary about the Liverpool fans.  It was unfortunate, as many of the Forest fans were brilliant and it could have brought the clubs and the fans together.

Also its a rematch between the teams who played each other in a benefit after Hillsborough.  I remember that game at CP it was a very sad experience.

Myself (as a 15 year old), my old man and 2 uncles were stood on the spion kop that fateful day and we saw sights that nobody should have to see. Bodies being given their last rights in the penalty area in front of us, police/fans working frantically on other people and rows of the already deceased. People always seem to forget there was another set of fans who were deeply affected by the tragedy.

Cloughie always spoke his mind whether it was right or wrong (and nobody knows the real answers from that day).