Heysel, May 29th 1985

If you didn’t know, May 29th was the 20th anniversary of probably the lowest day of Liverpool history. May 29th 1985 was the day when 39 football fans (mainly Juventus fans) died when a wall collapsed at the Heysel stadium in Belgium before the final of the European Cup, between Juventus and Liverpool. Having seen footage of it recently, I have no idea why the game was played at all after that happened. That is not the point however. The point is, we should take a moment and remember those 39 who never returned home, particularly Liverpool fans, as it was the Liverpool fans there that night who charged at the Juventus fans in the now infamous block z, after some missiles had been thrown by both sets of supporters, and as they fled, the Juventus fans trampled over their fellow supporters and suffocated them.