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‘Blame The Fans!’ A Legacy Of Heysel

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Were Liverpool fans to blame for heysel? The blame for the incident was laid on the fans of Liverpool. On 30 May, official UEFA observer Gunter Schneider said, “Only the English fans were responsible. Of that there is no doubt.” UEFA, the organiser of the event, the owners of Heysel Stadium and the Belgian police were investigated for culpability. The blame for the incident was laid on the fans of Liverpool FC. On 30 May official UEFA observer Gunter Schneider said, „Only the English fans were responsible. Of that there is no doubt.“ UEFA, the organiser of the event, the owners of Heysel Stadium and the Belgian police were investigated for culpability. After an 18-month investigation, the dossier of I agree, yes the inquest brought justice fairly onto the police and stewards but there was clearly emotional sentiment in delivering such a late inquest that brushed aside the part-blame of the fans at the game.

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Is Liverpool to blame for Heysel? Those poor fans, including sisters and young children, died through poor crowd management, and the police deflected blame for their part by spinning – repeatedly so, even in court – that the Liverpool fans were at fault. Why did Liverpool fans get tear gassed? “ This created a buildup of fans 40 years ago today, 39 Juventus fans lost their lives in a stadium disaster in Brussels. Here we look at how it happened and what the consequences were.

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Best chant of the day..Re:Best chant of the day.. « Reply #81 on: August 30, 2003, 09:38:18 pm » Quote Don’t blame it on the Walker Don’t blame it on the Kendall Don’t blame it on your shit team Blame it on the Heysel Don’t blame it on the shit ground Don’t blame it on the shit fans Don’t blame it on the shit club Blame it on the Heysel

Liverpool fans were definitely not victims in that circumstance, so why do we have people singing that they are (and claiming the song is “about Heysel”)? Answers on a postcard to Confused of The Heysel Stadium disaster (German pronunciation: [ˈɦɛizəl]; French pronunciation: [ɛizɛl]; Dutch pronunciation: [ˈɦɛizəl]; German: Katastrophe von Heysel; French: Drame du Heysel; Dutch: Heizeldrama; and the Italian: Tragedia dell’Heysel or Strage dell’Heysel) was a human stampede that occurred on 25 May 1985, when Juventus fans escaping from a breach by Liverpool fans were The Heysel Stadium, already in a dilapidated condition at the time, was home to two of the strongest and most followed teams in Europe. The tension between the fans was palpable, also fueled by previous episodes of

So from a ‚Liverpool FC book extract‘, Bruce Grobelaar has said that Chelsea and Millwall fans were handing out tickets and pamphlets for the cup final between Liverpool and Juventus and Heysel. ‚My mother-in-law said that a lot of the people handing out pamphlets had Chelsea and Millwall tattoos on their arms‘ I’m sorry but this is a ridiculous claim. Why should When Heysel happened, Liverpool FC tried to displace the blame from their fans. I stayed overnight and in the morning Roy Evans came back to try and sneak me out but to no avail, not least as the only clothing he had to hand was a Liverpool tracksuit turned inside out. FILE – A crowd of soccer fans in the Brussels Heysel stadium, falls down in a heavy group over the broken fence just prior to the European Champion’s Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus of

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Liverpool and Juventus were today marking the 30th anniversary of the Heysel disaster which claimed the lives of 39 fans. The tragedy occurred before the 1985 European Cup final when trouble broke The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred on 29 May 1985 when escaping fans were pressed against a collapsing wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, before the start of the 1985 European Cup Final between Juventus of Italy and Liverpool of England. 39 people—mostly Italians and Juventus fans—were killed and 600 were injured in the confrontation. Initially, the

Since 1985 Heysel was effectively pushed under the carpet. It’s only since we met Juve, and with the 20th anniversary approaching, that many fans have began to understand the many complex factors that went into causing the death of IN the wake of Heysel 14 Liverpool fans were convicted of involuntary manslaughter after a long trial in Belgium.

The fans that caused the collapse undoubtedly deserve blame and were prosecuted. Gianni Foggia FILE – A crowd of soccer fans in the Brussels Heysel stadium, falls down in a heavy group over the broken fence just prior to the European Champion’s Cup Final between Liverpool and Soccer fans are crushed against a collapsing wall in the Brussels Heysel stadium just prior to the European Cup final soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus, in Brussels, Belgium, May 29, 1985.

Re: Heysel 1985. Requiem for a cup final. Sunday BBC 2. 9.00PM « Reply #80 on: April 17, 2005, 11:00:22 pm » Quote from: WEST HAM PAUL on April 17, 2005, 10:36:40 pm One thing I never realised was that the fans that died, died through suffocation rather than the Question about Heysel disasterNot the best person to comment really (I was only 13 at the time) but from what I’ve read when looking into it, it was a combination of our fans, their fans – and then the now familiar crap (in fact, literally crumbling) stadium, crap officials who wouldn’t listen and crap policing on the day.

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The Heysel Stadium had been a controversial choice to host the European Cup final, due to its poor condition. Trouble flared between the rival fans at about 7pm, an hour before kick off.

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39 supporters died when rioting Liverpool fans charged Juventus fans before the 1985 European Cup Final at the Heysel stadium. But, who do you blame after 20 years.. you can blame the fans who actually made the crush, or the police who failed to organise the spectators in the first place. It’s too little, too late to blame anyone now. The fact that the entire stadia attitude was changed in wake of this is some justice, as hopefully it’d never happen again.

Forty years have passed since that catastrophic evening at Heysel: on May 29, 1985 in Brussels, inside the stadium of the Belgian city, just before the start of the European Cup final between Juventus and Liverpool, 39 people lost their lives following clashes that began in the stands and continued throughout that tragic evening.

Hinesy RAWK Editor. Giving it BAFTA’s. 57’sy. Caramel log dealer and comma chamaeleon RAWK Staff. Legacy Fan Posts: 20,311 Juventus fans remembered the victims of the Heysel disaster at a recent match but there have been few commemorations in England The 1980s were dark days for football, with the horrors of

The new memorial at Anfield will mark the 40th anniversary of the disaster in which 39 fans died. The Heysel Stadium disaster was a human disaster that occurred on 29 May 1985 at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels prior to the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus. 39 people, mostly fans of Juventus, lost their lives during the incident with a further 600 injured, which has had a substantial impact on European football. The Heysel Stadium was a controversial It was 29 May 1985, the European Cup Final between Liverpool and Juventus, two of the continent’s best teams. It should have been a classic encounter, but instead 39 football fans lost their lives at the game. The disaster occurred after crowd trouble erupted between fans; the panic that followed led to crowd crushing in a stadium that was not fit for purpose.

Soccer fans are crushed against a collapsing wall in the Brussels Heysel stadium just prior to the European Cup final soccer match between Liverpool and Juventus, in Brussels, Belgium, May 29, 1985. Great Liverpool Song for Everton Lyrics Yer movin‘ out the city, You’ve got nowhere to go, Kirkby doesn’t want you, So where yer gonna go? And for 24 years you’ve been blamin‘ it all on Heysel. 24 years yer club is in a mess, Gunter Schneider said Yer trophy room is empty, And yer full of bitterness, And for 24 years you’ve been blaming it all on Heysel, Heysel, Blame it all on Heysel. To the tune of Living When Heysel happened, Liverpool FC tried to displace the blame from their fans. Their chairman, John Smith, claimed there were lots of southern accents heard in the strands and pointed the finger at Chelsea fans and they blamed the location of the final.

When Heysel happened, Liverpool FC tried to displace the blame from their fans. Their chairman, John Smith, claimed there were lots of southern accents heard in the strands and pointed the finger at Chelsea fans and they blamed the location of the final. Red and White Kop: John Smith had And for 24 years you told reporters that he believed the trouble to be the fault of ‘Chelsea fans’ – it was Sometimes a tragedy occurs where almost everyone involved seems to want to forget it as quickly as possible. The Heysel Stadium tragedy is one such event. A mixture of hooliganism, poor planning