MAY 30, 1984. European Cup night in Rome. Liverpool beat Roma on their home ground. In a tense penalty shoot-out, they lift the European Cup for a remarkable fourth time. Liverpool were already League Champions and Milk Cup winners back home, where their reserve side...
THE facts are stark enough. Before the European Cup final, one of the showpieces of world football competition, at the ageing Heysel Stadium in Brussels, on the night of May 29, 1985, Liverpool and Juventius fans clashed in one of the most serious outbreaks of...
THIS is a special Anfield Wrap podcast on the Heysel stadium disaster. Neil Atkinson and Gareth Roberts interviewed Italian author Francesco Caremani, senior lecturer at Manchester University and author Geoff Pearson, football editor of the Times Tony Evans,...
THIRTY years ago this week a group of Liverpool fans repeatedly charged towards supporters in section Z of the Heysel stadium. Inadequate chicken wire fence did nothing to prevent them running free among rival supporters and 12 policemen stationed to keep them apart...
by Oliver Kay NOW that the lies, the smears and cruel myths about the Hillsborough disaster have been exposed once and for all, those who clung to them out of warped tribalism have but one straw left to clutch. “What about justice for Heysel?”, they plead. “What about...
Ahead of Marine v Wrexham in the FA Cup fourth qualifying round, the trophy was in Crosby in celebration of its 150 year anniversary.
Andy Heaton hosts goalkeeper Bayleigh Passant and club chairman Paul Leary to talk about how the Tottenham game last season has helped the club and how they hope to repeat the feat this year…
