Justice for the 96.

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April the 15th,
The year 1989.
Something horrific happened,
Which nobody can begin to define.
Liverpool reached the semi-finals in Sheffield,
Many thousands of fans traveled up.
They had all come down to watch their beloved team,
Get to the final of the FA Cup.
But what they didn’t know,
Was that a tragedy would unfold on that day.
But how were they expected to know?
That 96 lives were going to be taken away.
Before the game had started,
Thousands of fans were gathered outside,
All trying to swarm into the ground,
Sandwiched side by side.
The crowding was getting worse,
And a crush was taking place,
So the chief  stupidly ordered for the gates to be opened,
So that there would be more space.
People flocked into that tiny tunnel,
And this added an extra 2000 fans.
It had suddenly become too over crowded,
As they piled into the Leppins Lane stand.
People were swaying back and forth,
Pressed against an iron fence,
All caged in with no escape,
Breathing became intense.
The crowding got worse and worse,
People were getting dragged up to the stands above.
Fans were to be seen all over the place,
Looking for the ones they love.
Some seemed to get over the fence,
And ran onto the pitch,
Players thought it was another crazed fan,
Just another little glitch.
One fan walked to Alan Hansen,
And looked him straight in the eye.
He said “Listen Alan it’s getting serious,
I’m seeing people die!”
Liverpool fans were dying by the minute,
They just couldn’t take the strain,
It was too much for their bodies to bear,
In the deathly Leppins Lane.
The sight of seeing them fight for their lives,
And many grown men crying,
The crush became too much for them,
In a result of people dying.
Advertisement boards were being used as stretchers,
Bodies were lay all over the place,
The gymnasium turned into a mortuary
And ambulances came in at a slow pace.
Thousands of fans traveled to see the match,
With friends and family or alone,
Now after the unfortunate events,
96 weren’t returning home.
The following day was the shock of all,
As the Suns article read,
We urinated on fans, battered the police,
And pick pocketed the dead.
What about the polices involvement,
Have you ever considered that?
How about the Chief who opened the gates,
Or maybe even the ground staff.
They placed the blame on us,
Don’t ever buy The Sun,
We just want Justice for the 96,
And we won’t give up until it’s done.
It’s such a shame Hillsborough had to happen,
For the FA to get their acts together,
And the memories of the 96,
Will touch on our lives forever.

 

I wrote this 2 years ago when I was 15 and it still holds the same significance to me as it did then. Don’t ever buy The Sun, we want justice for the 96 people who lost their lives that day. I hope that tomorrow you all stop in your place at 3:06pm whether you’re at Anfield or in work, and remember about them poor innocent people who lost their lives. JUSTICE FOR THE 96.

 

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  1. Thanks,Lizzy.I was 15 when it happened.Horrible time for Liverpool supporters.A decade of death climaxing with yet more death.Hysel,Bradford,Hillsborough.A decade of Thatcher and police thugs and pure wanton greed and fuck anyone who felt like getting in the way.On the T.V,Mushroom clouds and endless lines of marching Russian soldiers and Ronnie and Nancy fucking off to the Ranch once again;see them smile and wave as Yorkshire Miners get the shit kicked out of them by Thatcher’s Firm.The Eighties was the last decade of greatness and excitement and invention but it was also the first decade of the Greed Heads and the people who REALLY run this often miserable shit hole of a planet dismantling our rights and our ability to do something about it(legally.)Thatcher had already been killing off the people of Liverpool for ten years by fucking the docks and persecuting hard working people for doing a bit of extra work because the giro wasn’t worth shit.Thatcher also had ALL football supporters down as animals and decreed that we should be treated as such,hence cages and police truncheons;people who STOOD together and believed in something other than the party line were a threat(vast numbers and small elements that loved nothing more than a fight only intensified this threat.)Then April 15th 1989.Then the likes of Duckenfield and that comic of a ‘news’paper..not one of them went to prison.JUSTICE FOR THE 96.Mahalo

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