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In remembrance of the 1989 Hillsborough Massacre at Sheffield Wednesday's Lepping Lane. The match, an FA Cup semi-final tie between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest, was abandoned six minutes into the game.

The history of Hillsborough begins with the deaths of 96 people and 766 injured and the physical and mental injury of countless others.

However it does not end there. The enormity of the Disaster goes beyond even this. The inquiry into the disaster, the Taylor Report, named the cause as failure of police control, and resulted in the conversion of many football stadiums in the United Kingdom to all-seater and the removal of barriers at the front of stands.

Hillsborough becomes a metaphor for British society today. It is a microcosm of how society operates. Viewed in this way the history of Hillsborough becomes the history of injustice, of cover-up, and collusion.

History will record 'Hillsborough' firmly within the bounds of civil rights, and the bereaved and survivors of the Disaster will long be remembered for the heroic stances they took against the might of bureaucratic forces in the name of justice.

What follows is a chronological outline of what exactly happened on the 15th April 1989 at Hillsborough and the aftermath...

History - http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/history/index.shtm

Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsborough_disaster

Hillsborough 1989 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx9N4dv5yPk

I was watching this on TV live when it happened. Sad, Sad stuff. RIP to those fans.

And yes the cover up etc... was terrible.

The Sun newspaper is not bought on merseyside after the lies they printed.

Sad day for all those people

I found a good documentary about it on youtube. Its a good watch

Here is the link for the first part out of six

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WN1P6FYoJ40