HEYSEL 30 YEARS: WHY DID NO-ONE SEE IT COMING?
THE Heysel Stadium was inspected by Belgian architectural expert Joseph Ange. Called in to assess the state of the stadium which was over 50 years old, he found the terracing “still as it was at the time of its construction”. With the passing of years it was now “in...
HEYSEL 30 YEARS: WHEN IN ROME
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...
HEYSEL 30 YEARS: THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING
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...
HEYSEL 30 YEARS: AN INTRODUCTION
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...
BREAKING BAD NEWS: BENTEKE? NOT FOR ME
Silly season. I detest it. Practically every little inch of it. The false links to leave publications sat back, feet up, feeling the clicks. The faux outrage at anyone rumoured to be joining Liverpool who doesn’t have some touch of the exotic. The opportunistic hordes...
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HEYSEL 30 YEARS: WHY DID NO-ONE SEE IT COMING?
THE Heysel Stadium was inspected by Belgian architectural expert Joseph Ange. Called in to assess the state of the stadium which was over 50 years old, he found the terracing “still as it was at the time of its construction”. With the passing of years it was now “in...
HEYSEL 30 YEARS: WHEN IN ROME
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...
HEYSEL 30 YEARS: THE BARBARIANS ARE COMING
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...
HEYSEL 30 YEARS: AN INTRODUCTION
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...
BREAKING BAD NEWS: BENTEKE? NOT FOR ME
Silly season. I detest it. Practically every little inch of it. The false links to leave publications sat back, feet up, feeling the clicks. The faux outrage at anyone rumoured to be joining Liverpool who doesn’t have some touch of the exotic. The opportunistic hordes...