12 Apr 2024 12:00:51
May I commend an excellent and very moving report on BBC Football site about Forest fans experience at Hillsborough. Ed 1 you have probably read it already but just to give you the heads up mate.
{Ed001's Note - I did look at that but I tend not to read stuff about it to be honest. I find it brings back too many bad memories.}
12 Apr 2024 12:37:24
That’s very understandable Ed. Terrible loss of innocent life. I remember the day well. I didn’t go to the game as my daughter was just a few days old. But where I lived at the time with my first wife at Underwood Nottinghamshire was literally a minutes walk from a pub called the Red Lion. The landlady at the time was a daughter of a Forest FA Cup winner and legend Jeff Whitefoot. It was a Forest pub and coach’s would pick up fans from there.
I remember listening to the match in the radio then hearing it had been paused then abandoned because of injured fans. It was only in later news bulletins that the true enormity of the disaster unfolded.
It was a sunny day and we took our daughter in the pram down to the Pub to sit outside for a drink. Then we saw the coach pull up and noticed the normally lively fans were very sombre and quiet. Most would usually have popped in for a pint before going home but not this time. We knew something bad had happened and were shocked as the numbers of the dead rose and rose ….
{Ed001's Note - my uncles were there, one ended up in the middle of it, I was meant to go with them but we got let down on my ticket. I mostly remember sitting there with me ma in tears as her two brothers were missing and the death toll was rising. In those days no one had mobile phones or anything. We just had to wait. It took them until late in the night before they were able to get to a phone and call to let anyone know they were ok. Neither of them have been the same since and have gone from being at every game, home and away, to being irregular matchgoers despite having season tickets. They both say it is not the same after that.}
12 Apr 2024 15:14:51
Ed, sincere thoughts with all fans effected. Lived here for 27 years, awful day.
{Ed001's Note - thank you Scouse.}
12 Apr 2024 17:22:36
We we're there and realised what was happening so went down to the gate and showed our firstaid cards but the police man said he couldn't let us through so went out the ground but couldn't get near. It was an horrific sight felt weird going home.
12 Apr 2024 18:59:07
I was playing for a local football team that day, the news broke on an old Transistor Radio that someone had pitch side. one by one we just stopped playing. and just sat down together and listened to the tragedy unfolding RIP the 97.
12 Apr 2024 22:01:07
My cousins were both there, fuc4ed up day.