I said to my friends, ‘We can’t stay in here, we’ve got to get out.’ We went left at the end of the tunnel into Pen 4. I’ve always found that what happened that day to be a very difficult thing to talk about and the smears were a big part of that because people believed the lies. As I went down the slope, I went into the terraces in one movement and by the time I got myself together, I realised that I was looking back at the way I had come in.”, Dr Glyn Phillips realised straight away that the central pens were abnormally full: “I knew this was not a good place to be and we decided to move higher up the terrace. Bearing in mind that the tunnel leading to the central pens was directly in front of exit gate C, the simple act of blocking access to the tunnel and directing fans to the side pens would have stopped thousands more supporters using the only obvious entrance to enter the already packed pens. I stuck my foot on the bottom and jump through, the last one in as the copper pulls it shut behind me. All that I’d seen was people trying to help and care for their mates, people in tears and numb with shock. Since the recent report was published various individuals including the UK Government, South Yorkshire Police and Kelvin MacKenzie have apologised. The kids know to turn the TV off if something about Hillsborough comes on; they know to leave me alone on the anniversary of the day itself. I saw with my own eyes what happened that day and I knew the truth but most people didn’t and that was difficult to accept. The memories are, of course, focused on what happened but the build up to the match itself was nothing unusual. Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Eventually, [my friend] and I were side by side, and we got towards the turnstile and there was a police officer on a horse. "To be honest, I didn’t catch on too quickly. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. They walked over to the gate and I could see they were opening it. Hillsborough disaster This article is more than 7 years old. This started to alarm me, as normally if you go forward then you can jostle back to your position. Hillsborough inquiry: Chief police officer David Duckenfield admits he caused disaster. We got into the pens and the crowd had stopped moving by then. The crush wasn’t as bad as it was to be inside, but the police had lost control of it, basically. I looked over my shoulder and there was just a sea of people, and you could see people’s eyes getting wider. There were people crying everywhere, walking about the pitch in a state of shock. How much does that mean to the people of Liverpool? “Jocky is back, Jocky is back, woa woa” and “Brucie, Brucie Grobbelaar, Brucie Grobbelaar in our goal”. It helped you to realise that you were right and that there was a fight to be taken on.". On Saturday 15 April 1989, some 96 Liverpool fans attending the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest were killed when a crush developed at the Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield. I never knew any of the 96 who died but, even still, that day has affected me ever since. At this stage, you’ve got the thought in the back of your mind that there’s too many out here. Even those who chant for justice for the 96 at football matches have done their bit in keeping up awareness of the campaign and kept the profile high. The pressure just kept building. “The strange thing is that my first worry was actually how packed the Nottingham Forest (Liverpool’s opponents that day) end was. What followed was hell on earth for those trapped in the central pens. It’s very important that progress is made while the world’s spotlight is on the case. In a strange way, the smears had a positive effect on the campaign because it galvanised the groups and reinforced the belief that things were not right. To wait that long to get the truth widely accepted is far too long to wait. Opening the gates was a decision not taken lightly. There was a mounted officer with a bullhorn shouting, 'Get back, step back', but you couldn’t. The next thing we knew we went tumbling forward. By then, people couldn’t stand aside, so we went down on hands and knees and crawled through legs. People were struggling to keep their footing, and being squashed tightly against each other. Then, of course, people started to climb over the fences or climbing up a tier in the stand and when some fans started running towards Bruce (Grobbelaar, Liverpool goalkeeper) to tell him what was going on, it became clear how serious the problem was. My shoelace was undone, but I couldn’t bend down to tie it. What would you say to those who failed to address the injustice when they had the chance? I was screaming then at the police inside the ground that it was carnage outside and if they didn’t do something it was going to be bad. Everything was good-humoured, but I was already getting jostled about as people were singing and dancing. Writer of Hillsborough The Truth, Professor Phil Scraton gives a unique account of the Hillsborough football disaster. Everyone just headed for the tunnel. However, I was finding that when I was pushed forward there was no going back. I can’t imagine what the families of the deceased have been through. We don’t have justice yet but, at last, we have truth. It was another semi-final, we were confident of victory and the weather was great. Once there, Steve Hart remembers, I was shouting at the turnstile operator that it was chaos outside and he needed to do something, and he didn’t even take my ticket … he was just clicking people through. Whenever it got dark, it gave you the incentive to keep fighting. It’s very wrong.". There were police on horses; the horses were trying to move about. They weren’t interested, and just told us to get in the ground.”, John Joynt got through a turnstile around 2.45pm. Outside, Nick Braley decided it was getting to be too much: ‘I say to the lads that I don’t care if I miss the kick-off, don’t care if I miss the match, this is dangerous and I want out. I was starting to get a little concerned, but the surges always went back a second or two later.”, Inside the central pens, Damian Kavanagh recalls the crowd getting tighter and tighter: “The nature of crush barriers is to stop the pressure of having one big crowd all leaning on each other from the back of the terrace to the front. Hillsborough is a definitive account of the 1989 Hillsborough Stadium disaster in Sheffield, England, during an FA Cup semi-final football match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Once you got into that dark tunnel … horrendous … the nightmares I’ve had over it since...’. They should be held accountable for their actions. I couldn’t believe what I saw. Words are easily said but I see no real evidence that there is any genuine meaning behind them and I still have not had an explanation as to why it took them so long to make those apologies.".
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