Hillsborough

[hibsbollah]

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You could be right, but I’m pretty sure it was being broadcast as a live news event as it was happening, rather than live football.

GGTTH
Scottish Cup Winners
2016

Thats correct. Im fairly sure they showed the moment when the ref abandoned the game as the match was ongoing, presumably being filmed for a later highlights programme, and then cut to the live scenes.

[HUTCHYHIBBY]

https://www.theguardian.com/theguard...ekend7.weekend

A long but, very informative article.

[worcesterhibby]

I was at Uni in England back then and my Liverpool supporting girlfriend was at the match with her brother and some of his mates. No mobile phones and only one payphone in my halls of residence which she didn't know the number of (she lived on campus too, so had no reason to phone me via that payphone). We had only been going out for a couple of months and I hadn't met her family, so didn't have her families phone number either. So she actually sent me a postcard, first class, to let me know she was ok !! mind-blowing how much has changed communications wise in the intervening years. Thankfully they weren't in the Leppings Lane stand, but I didn't know that at the time.

[Scouse Hibee]

Sadly I know a couple of Liverpool supporters so traumatised by the events of that day that they have forgotten that they weren’t actually at the game! One of them even posted a match ticket stub on his social media a couple of years ago to add to his untrue claim!

[AngloHibs]

I'd been to QPR v Boro at Loftus Road, and people with radios said that there'd been "trouble" at the Liverpool game. I assumed that it had been hooliganism. No mobile phones etc, and I was travelling home solo by train, so it wasn't until I saw Sunday's papers that I found out what had happened.

I was at Hillsborough for Boro's last game that season and I could clearly see the twisted metal barriers in the Leppings Lane stand. Seeing it relatively close up really illustrated the full horror of it. I couldn't comprehend how solid metal barriers could be bent so out of shape by human beings' bodies.

[hibeerealist]

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The game wasn't on TV. It was pre-Sky and also a Saturday 3pm kick-off. I think with the passing of time people start to think they watched it but what they actually saw live were updates from the ground via Grandstand as it developed into a news story.

I certainly watched events unfolding live on TV and others have confirmed they did too.

You may be correct in terms of the live broadcasting of the game but as we know there was only the horrible events going on not a football match.

[green day]

A lot of people forget that Liverpool also played Forest at Hillsborough in the equivalent FA Cup fixture the year before - again, we were there but this time in the Spion Kop, opposite Leppings Lane.

Liverpool fans actually lodged complaints after that match about overcrowding in the Leppings Lane pens.

**** all was done, of course, its only football fans.......

[Scouse Hibee]

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A lot of people forget that Liverpool also played Forest at Hillsborough in the equivalent FA Cup fixture the year before - again, we were there but this time in the Spion Kop, opposite Leppings Lane.

Liverpool fans actually lodged complaints after that match about overcrowding in the Leppings Lane pens.

**** all was done, of course, its only football fans.......

I haven’t forgot as I was one of them, the reason I swapped my terrace tickets in the Leppings Lane for seated tickets in the stand. I have also mentioned it numerous times in previous posts. Thankfully the people we swapped our tickets with avoided injury.

[matty_f]

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I was watching bbc (Grandstand?) at the time and because there wasnt tv rights from any competing company they switched to the live footage, im almost certain of it. They started to limit some of the more upsetting images as the seriousness developed and became apparent to everyone .

There definitely was footage shown on the BBC, I remember watching it at my mate’s house and just being in complete shock at what was going on.
I remember being at a Hampden for the game mentioned above and the minute’s silence and being really moved at how well respected it was.