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Originally Posted by Peter_
I know and fully realise that, my father went the year before and was in the Leppings Lane End and only because he contracted terminal cancer he could have been there in 1989, I sat and watched it unfold live on Grandstand or whatever Saturday afternoon sports programme was on and could not believe my eyes that is one reason I have always felt so strongly about this issue.
So please do not be be offended by anything I posted in anger as maybe now you will understand why.
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I was playing football with my brother and some friends down on the seafront and listening to the radio. Someone walked past and asked what the score was, and all we were able to tell them at the time was that the match had been stopped because of some sort of crowd trouble. Of course the story was only pieced together as the hours went by and the enormity of it didn't really come across on the local radio commentary. It only began to sink in for me that evening when I got home, put the TV on and saw the pictures. The next Monday at school the flag was half mast and it seemed everyone knew someone who had been affected. Two boys from my school were injured, thankfully not seriously.
The pain of it is somehow a communal thing for all those of us who are from that part of the world and were immersed in it through acquaintances and through continuing coverage in local media long after the national attention moved elsewhere.