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FOOALI
17-04-2006, 01:12 AM
I don't know if anyone noticed but most premiership players were wearing a black armband of somesort and i don't think anyone big died recently and i wondered if anyone knows why this was?
Splatypus
17-04-2006, 01:17 AM
Hillsborough disaster happened April 15, 1989
May261999
17-04-2006, 01:30 AM
Yeah, that.

Man..........17 years already? I'm getting old.
chriswvtr
17-04-2006, 01:33 AM
I don't know if anyone noticed but most premiership players were wearing a black armband of somesort and i don't think anyone big died recently and i wondered if anyone knows why this was?


:eek: How could any football fan not know that :confused:
May261999
17-04-2006, 01:38 AM
:eek: How could any football fan not know that :confused:
If you were born in the 90s and don't follow the English game.
MrJoeSoap
17-04-2006, 01:57 AM
:eek: How could any football fan not know that :confused:

Maybe they just didn't hear. I didn't know it until the Liverpool game today.

Do they do it every year there are games on the 15th April or... ?
sof2xlc
17-04-2006, 02:32 AM
WHATS THE HILLBOROUGH DISASTER?



oh and by the way i am american go easy on me



if i had to guess its a plane crash or something.. or somefans died during a game
AC_
17-04-2006, 02:45 AM
WHATS THE HILLBOROUGH DISASTER?



oh and by the way i am american go easy on me



if i had to guess its a plane crash or something.. or somefans died during a game

on April 15, 1989 during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough stadium , 96 people were crushed to death because too many people were let in to an already full stand :(
stokecityohio
17-04-2006, 02:46 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

I'm a fellow Yank and I've been transfixed with Hillsborough ever since I 've read about it a few years back.

It is, without question, the most tragic event in any sport, at any time. Nick Hornby's passages about it in Fever Pitch made me cry. I recently secured a copy of the 1997 BBC TV drama on Hillsborough and it absolutely ripped my heart out. The very recent book The Beautiful Game? by David Conn made me feel mad as hell about Hillsborough and guilty.

Guilty for watching the EPL which is built on the bodies of these victims.
AC_
17-04-2006, 02:51 AM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster
It is, without question, the most tragic event in any sport, at any time.


I agree this is a tragic tragic event but... WHAT? :confused:
May261999
17-04-2006, 03:26 AM
Can't say I was there, but I watched Heysel and Hillsborough unfold before my eyes........those were the two times I wept out of sadness for the game I love.
stokecityohio
17-04-2006, 03:35 AM
I agree this is a tragic tragic event but... WHAT? :confused:

Yes. Why? Because it was preventable on any number of levels. The level of incompetence and sheer ignorance to the scope of the situation make it bad.

The lies told about it and the victims make it worse.

But, the fact that so many profited to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds make it too sick to excuse.
AC_
17-04-2006, 04:52 AM
Yes. Why? Because it was preventable on any number of levels. The level of incompetence and sheer ignorance to the scope of the situation make it bad.

The lies told about it and the victims make it worse.

But, the fact that so many profited to the tune of hundreds of millions of pounds make it too sick to excuse.

Remember Munich 1972. I don't think it was any less tragic than this.
May261999
17-04-2006, 04:58 AM
The numbers in Munich are paled by the numbers at Hillsborough. And Munich was a terrorist act--those animals act as animals do. Hillsborough was a totally avoidable thing, which is what made it all the more tragic.

I don't deny that Munich was a tragedy, though. Perhaps trying to quantify just how tragic something is might be an exercise in futility.
gonekais
17-04-2006, 05:03 AM
Remember Munich 1972. I don't think it was any less tragic than this.

While I think it is in poor taste and disrespectful of the dead to discuss "which incident was more or less tragic than the other" may I just suggest that perhaps stokecityohio feels this way because the Hillsborough was a "man-made" disaster which could have been prevented and the loss of life was on a much larger scale. The incidents at Munich 1972 were the result of an agenda by a certain group and were to a certain extent unpreventable. In addition, the loss of life wasn't as great.

However, as I stated earlier, it may not be appropriate to discuss something as futile as this, at the risk of trivialising the utter sadness and tragedy off these deaths, and diminishing the grief that we all share to this day.

May God rest all their souls in eternal peace.

EDIT: Posted just after May 261999 so didn't see his, but I'm glad we both share the same view.
AC_
17-04-2006, 05:17 AM
yah.. I don't think its right to say "this event is more tragic than that so on and so on" when peoples lives are involved. No one has the right to make that sort of judgement. I apologize then...

On another note I read Celtic fans were gonna pay a tribute and sing YNWA before their match just like when the madrid bombings happened. Not sure if they did though

EDIT: they did... its on youtube (I can mention that right? not posting the link i'm just saying its there)
gonekais
17-04-2006, 05:46 AM
yah.. I don't think its right to say "this event is more tragic than that so on and so on" when peoples lives are involved. No one has the right to make that sort of judgement. I apologize then...

On another note I read Celtic fans were gonna pay a tribute and sing YNWA before their match just like when the madrid bombings happened. Not sure if they did though

EDIT: they did... its on youtube (I can mention that right? not posting the link i'm just saying its there)

No apology needed:) It's a contentious discussion, easy to get drawn into, so there's no need to apologise. We were, after all, essentially mourning the tragic deaths of these people.

So just out of curiosity, what would this video be called, if I were to browse on youtube?;)
AC_
17-04-2006, 06:13 AM
So just out of curiosity, what would this video be called, if I were to browse on youtube?;)

:p

If you were to browse for the vid... I typed "Celtic YNWA" it was the first result. While you're there, There were also 2 vids there where liverpool and celtic fans sang YNWA together at Anfield and Celtic Park.
gonekais
17-04-2006, 06:29 AM
Excellent, thanks alot man! Your code was tough, but I managed to decrypt it eventually:D! Cheers, have a good one.