I always feel that even watching the run up games to Hillsborough and the semi final they have a sort of haunting feeling to them. Even the 3rd round game at Carlisle.
Raymond McDonald most definitely. It’s like building up to a horrible thing that’s going to happen that you wish you could just go back in time and tell them to not show up for the semi final, anything to stop what was going to happen.
I was at that Barnsley game. Man it was grim and bloody freezing standing right at the back of the away section. Main memories was the running battles in the street, people walking around with cuts, gashes and blood freely flowing, then after the game a couple of supporters getting legged by a bobby and his Alsatian. Fun times eh?????
I wonder if Liverpool had been knocked out of the cup, would Hillsborough have been chosen as a semi-final venue and would Hillsborough have happened at some point anyway?
I think Hillsborough would have been used for the semi's anyway. I think a Hillsborough was waiting to happen for years. I remember in 1981 i was in the Birmingham end against Villa at Villa park and our end was packed, you could hardly move and then 15 minutes before the game the police escorted hundreds of Blues fans along the side of the pitch, opened the big gates and let them in our end. I was 12 at the time and was getting crushed during the whole game. At full time the police had locked these big iron gates at the back so no one could get out. It was mayhem, dangerous and how Hillsborough never happened sooner is anyone's guess as i am sure there will be fans from every team that faced the same when the big fences were all around the grounds.
@@dazo69 you're spot on. Hillsborough almost happened in 1981 when Tottenham played Wolves in a semi. There were quite a few bad injuries that day, but as there weren't fences at the front, fans were able to spill onto the pitch - albeit with broken arms and legs. Hillsborough would definitely have happened - the question is when. The semi-final venues were chosen, depending on which teams were in the semi. Technically the venue would be as close to halfway between the two clubs as possible. So you're right. It would've happened and the rest is history.
@@MrJonno85 Yeah, it's all ifs, buts and maybes now. I didn't know until a few years ago, that our Manager Steven Gerrard lost a young cousin at Hillsborough. I think he was the youngest victim. Also the youngest to die on Stairway 13 at Ibrox in 1971 was from Liverpool. Nigel Pickup, he was only 8 years of age, and attending his 1st football match. A village near to where I live lost 3 teenagers at Ibrox, and a village in Fife lost 5 young schoolboys who all lived in the same street.
The trouble was that hillsborough or the leppings lane end should I say was a death trap. It was bound to happen at some point especially because the club and the FA were ignorant of it. We had had warning signs about the problems that could arise at that end of the ground in 81, 87 and 88. Not to mention a few league games with a big away following. I went there myself to see United in February 89 and the central tunnel was closed off at 2:45. My dad and i were directed to the pen underneath the bank in the corner. If only that had happened at the semi final then 96 fellow football fans wouldn’t have horribly died.
Even though i do not watch todays football, love seeing videos of football that i would of watched when i was young, when football was football Today is massive cheating, and everyone screwing each other over with weapons on the pitch But these times, teams were 11 vs 11, and just the crowd on there side, and without weapons, that alex ferguson brought into englands top flight a few years after this.
