Hi All
If anyone who is in Paphos on the 15th April 2009 and would like to attend read on
This idea was started on Saturday 11th April 2009 with about 3 Liverpool Supporters who felt they had to do something to remember our fallen brothers and Sisters on that fateful afternoon on the 15th April 1989 at 3:06.
Within 2 days we have confirmation from the Paphos Municipality and from the Paphos Port Authority to parade through the Paphos Harbour for a short service and laying of a wreath into the sea and to scatter 96 Red petals
Within 2 days we have estimated there will be over 100 people attending but this figure is growing, we have all football supporters attending including Arsenal , West Ham, Newcastle supporters and all we wish is that all football fans try to attend in your own colours.
FATE DECREED THAT IT WAS LIVERPOOL SUPPORTERS THAT DIED THAT DAY, IT COULD HAVE BEEN ANY CLUB
All those that wish to attend Please assemble at the barrier to the harbour (before the start of the Restaurants) for 1600 - 1615 hrs. 1630 procession will start shortly after this
A Reading will be performed by Fr John and a 2 min silence to follow (as there will be a 2 min silence in Liverpool with both cathedrals sounding their bells)
Please thank the following for this
Fr John Catholic Priest for Paphos
Themis Filippiolos Paphos Municipality
Chrisostomos Christodouiou Paphos Port Authority
For further details please contact Kevin on 99178638
YNWA 96 we shall not forget
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I wont be in Paphos, but was at Hillsborough on that day, i can rember it like it wea yesterday
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Its one of those days when most people can remember where they were. I was born in Nottingham so had a great affinity for Nottingham Forest but was working in Liverpool at the time when my husband rang me and told me what was happening. The whole of Liverpool came to a standstill. It is still so very sad and a day that mustn%26#39;t be allowed to be forgotten. Sadly I%26#39;m not in Paphos but in not so sunny Wigan but I will be thinking of all those who lost their lives and their families as will all of Liverpool and the UK
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The thing I remember the most about it was that image of the young girl pressed against the fence on the front of the newspaper the following day.
I don%26#39;t think I had ever seen anything reported so graphically before then and it was truly shocking to see. I can remember that image as if it was yesterday.
I am not a football fan and my links with Liverpool are pretty weak but I will spare a moment tomorrow as a mark of respect.
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Hi,
Can someone please enlighten me? What happened on the 15th April 1989? I was only 5 years old that time and living in Paphos...
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Leah, I am sure that others would explain what happened with much more passion and eloquence than I can.
A football match between Liverpool and Nottingham was taking place at the Hillsborough stadium. I believe it was an important cup match.
Apparently the police were not allowing fans to get into the ground and many with tickets were still outside when the match started. There was a rush and a crush to get inside and 96 people were crushed and trampled to death, many of them young people.
The police have never been held accountable for what happened that day and it has been a bone of contention ever since.
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Ah now that is a familiar story...
I am against that sort of thing. Hooligans too.
I would like to attend but unable to do so. Am picking up a friend from Paphos Airport.
Have a good day and I hope that the whole process is a smooth one.
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Leah
from Karen%26#39;s post where in the hell did you come up with hooilgans?????
try googling hillsborough
and here is an extract from Gordon Brown
Speaking ahead of Wednesday%26#39;s anniversary of Britain%26#39;s worst ever sporting disaster, the Prime Minister, a Raith Rovers supporter, was determined to let the city of Liverpool know that 20 years on, the country remains right behind the families who lost loved ones at the FA Cup semi-final in 1989, insisting:
The behaviour of fans was magnificent
Those who blamed fans were wrong
We can never forget the 96 people who died
Families deserve Freedom of the City
In obvious reference to one particular newspaper%26#39;s disgraceful and now infamous front page attack on Liverpool supporters just four days after the disaster, Brown made a point of twice chastising those who tried to blame the very people who were doing most to save lives on the day.
%26quot;People will never forget that day; it%26#39;s etched on our memories,%26quot; Mr Brown told LFC TV, in an exclusive interview to be screened for the first time at 9pm tonight during a special edition of %26#39;This is Anfield%26#39;. %26quot;I remember just hearing half hour by half hour the news as it came across from the Hillsborough stadium. It was then that I started to realise what a major disaster that this was. I also remember how the Liverpool fans helped each other, coming to the aid of people who were in difficulty and trying to rescue fellow fans - both young and old. I don%26#39;t think we can ever forget the 96 people who died.
%26quot;I think that the families, in trying to cope with this disaster, have had the support of all decent minded people across the country. I think that%26#39;s probably what matters most: that people understood that the behaviour of Liverpool fans in helping each other was, as I think the judge said, %26#39;Magnificent%26#39;; that it was wrong for people to blame, as some did, Liverpool fans on that day and it%26#39;s right that the Freedom of the City has been given to the families of Liverpool fans on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of this disaster.%26quot;
When questioned on what he thought the legacy of the disaster was, Mr Brown again reiterated his point about how the actions of Liverpool supporters on the day were not just heroic but totally at odds with how they were portrayed in certain sections of the media following the disaster.
%26quot;I think people have learned first of all not to rush to instant judgements and some of the people who did rush to instant judgements have been proven wrong and that%26#39;s why the Liverpool people are so respected throughout the country,%26quot; he said. %26quot;The work that they did to help each other on that day and subsequent events when people had to help each other through the difficult times is something that will never be forgotten.%26quot;
When quizzed in the interview to be shown later tonight on whether he thought there was a still a legal route open to the families in their continued search for justice or whether even an apology would go some way to help ease the pain and suffering of those who lost loved ones that day, the Prime Minister refused to be drawn, preferring instead to repeat his praise for the fans and the families who%26#39;ve acted in such a dignified way over the past 20 years.
%26quot;I feel that the best thing that we can do,%26quot; claimed Mr Brown, %26quot;is say that the memories of these fans who died will always be in our minds, that the country understands the difficulties that people have gone through and that there is huge public support and affection for the families that have had to suffer so much. Let%26#39;s never forget the fans that cruelly lost their lives on a day when we know the people of Liverpool were trying, if they were in that ground, to help each other and that%26#39;s the spirit of Liverpool.%26quot;
Kev
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I don%26#39;t think Leah was implying that hooligans were responsible Kev. I think she was just making a statement that it is something she dislikes, as do we all.
I hope you get a good turn out for the memorial service tomorrow Kev. I will be with you in thought.
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I was actually there, but lucky because i was high up in the left corner behind the goal, lots of fans turned up late some without tickets. I blame the FA firstly giving the forest fans most of the large home end, and secondly i think forest were only getting low attendances and all of a sudden they needed three times as many tiickets, always the case i suppose. I was in the ground at 2.30 and the section behind the goal was nearly full then, the police should of locked the gates that are at the entrance to the little tunnel that leads behind the goal. If all the semis are to be held at wembley from know on then why does it need people to lose theitr lives to realise, normal grounds cant hold the capacity needed. The police at sheffield have a vast experience of dealing with football matches, and it would of been a big decision to postpone the kick off or match, even if someone is made accountable, it still wont bring the dead back.When people were trying to get over the fences i think the police thought the fans were trying to cause trouble. There was a lot of rubbish in the papers about the scousers looting of people who were dead or dying, that is total rubbish, and i never saw anything and i was in the ground until 3.45. RIP
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