Les conditions de sécurité et de confort sont mauvaises, et en raison de nombreuses failles dans le système de contrôle, plusieurs milliers de fans sans billets ont transformé l'enceinte en boîte de sardines. It was a useless gesture in the end, with UEFA banning all English clubs ‘for an indeterminate period of time’ just two days after Thatcher’s request. UEFA observer Gunter Schneider had concluded "Only the English fans were responsible. "About an hour before kick off at the 1985 European Cup final, a group of Liverpool fans crossed a fence separating them from a neutral area containing mostly Juventus fans. "Four years later, 96 Liverpool fans lost their lives after a fatal crush during the 1989 FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium.The circumstances of exactly what happened that day have been pored over for 26 years now, largely thanks to a campaign for truth waged by the bereaved families of the victims.The blame for Heysel was initially laid entirely on Liverpool fans, and 14 were later found guilty of manslaughter and jailed.However, an investigation did concede that some culpability lay with the authorities, and the crumbling state of the Heysel stadium.Phil Hammond, who lost his 14 year-old son, Philip, at Hillsborough, said he remembers Heysel well. The Heysel stadium disaster. The Juventus fans at the opposite side of the stadium, witnessing the tragedy, began to riot and headed down the stadium to confront the Liverpool fans.
« Pour des matchs de niveau professionnel, les sites doivent être entièrement équipés de sièges (alors que des zones de places debout sont autorisées aux niveaux junior et amateur). As they fled the threat, the fans were crushed together in a section of terrace hemmed in by a concrete retaining wall, which eventually collapsed. "But for Juventus fans, feelings run pretty deep and it's split down the middle between those who are happy to move on and those who are still angry, as you saw at the 2005 game at Anfield. L'une portant un maillot blanc et l'autre un maillot rouge. They fought, with some fans attacking the Belgian officers with rocks, stone and bottles.Incredibly, a decision was made to allow the match to take place regardless. In April 1989 fourteen Liverpool fans were convinced of manslaughter, as was the Belgian police chief.Back in England a response was required from the government. Liverpool fans held placards spelling the word "friendship" in Italian during a match with Juventus in 2005 These are external links and will open in a new windowThe 1980s were dark days for football, with the horrors of Hillsborough and Bradford etched into memories forever. "We had the best football team in the world and this was a stab in the heart for the city. Heysel Stadium. Something to initiate a conversation and to just talk about Heysel again. "But as we are seeing now, we are finally getting to the truth [at the new Hillsborough inquests]. "And those disasters played out closer to home at domestic clubs, so they're more likely to be talked about.
Liverpool supporters in section X and Juventus fans in section Z were separated by an entirely inadequate and temporary chain-link fence. À la suite du visionnage des cassettes de caméra et à des dénonciations, 26 supporters britanniques sont inculpés de « coups et blessures volontaires avec préméditation », trois Belges (deux des officiers de gendarmerie responsables du maintien de l'ordre, le major Michel Kensier et le capitaine Johan Mahieu, ainsi qu'Albert Roosens, l'ex-secrétaire-général de l'La justice belge a condamné lourdement les autorités responsables pour avoir autorisé la tenue d'un match dans une enceinte vétuste. Liverpool manager The Liverpool team were aware of the disaster occurring within the stadium whilst waiting in the dressing room for a decision regarding the match to be made. Both Juventus and Liverpool had requested UEFA to alter the host for the final, however UEFA declined their requests. "I remember Heysel well because one of my friends had a ticket. "I think with Hillsborough and Bradford there has been a sense of unfinished business and justice that needs to be addressed. Tickets for section Z were reserved for Belgian fans with allegiance to neither team, though predictably enough these were sold by touts outside the ground allowing fans from both teams to mix in a dangerous atmosphere. Heysel Stadium never hosted a football match again in its older state. The game was played despite the disaster in order to prevent further disorder, with Juventus winning 1-0.Among those killed were 32 Italians, four Belgians, two French fans and one from Northern Ireland. In 1994, it underwent an extensive regeneration and became known as the King Baudouin Stadium, which has since been selected by UEFA for a major European Cup final, the 1996 European Cup Winners Cup. The Heysel Stadium disaster was a human disaster that occurred on 29 May 1985 at the Heysel Stadium, Brussels prior to the 1985 European Cup final between Liverpool and Juventus. There's only a little plaque at Anfield. The Juventus supporters at the opposite end of the ground began to riot when they understood what had happened, attempting to advance on Liverpool’s end only to be stopped by the police. The adjacent Z terrace was reserved for neutral Belgian fans. Violence began to erupt at about 19:00, an hour before kick off when Liverpool fans from terrace Y and Juventus fans in terrace Z began goading each other and throwing missiles across the thin wire fence separating the terraces.
There is a small memorial plaque dedicated to the victims inside Liverpool's club museum, with the shirt worn by Kenny Dalglish on the night draped alongside.For some Juventus fans, there is a perception that many people in England have indeed forgotten the Heysel disaster - although the reasons for this remain complex.But there has been little, if any, mention of Heysel during England's most recent football season, other than a small private wreath-laying service planned at Anfield later.Lifelong Juventus supporter Gurjit Kahlon, from Coventry, said: "I think it has been forgotten.