- 21. Staying on your feet
- (Grounds)
- ... developments here. The Taylor Report after the Hillsborough disaster of 1989 recommended all-seat venues for clubs in the top two divisions in England, and this was passed into legislation via th ...
- Created on 21 March 2011
- 22. Back to the future
- (Crowd control & policing)
- ... duties there were TV crews doing live interviews for the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough. My team, Derby County, were the visitors and because of Derby's intense rivalry with Nottingham Forest – th ...
- Created on 21 December 2010
- 23. Walk On
- (Players)
- ... and still loves – in a quite brutal and heartless way. Even the chapter on Hillsborough does not go far beneath the surface. Whelan, you feel, is far less comfortable talking about the disaster or his ...
- Created on 21 April 2010
- 24. Sheffield Wednesday 2 Peterborough United 1
- (Match of the month)
- ... the South Yorkshire Police Sports and Social Club, a stone’s throw from Hillsborough. The Wednesdayite members – as they are also known – gather here before every Saturday home game but today promises ...
- Created on 21 March 2010
- 25. Division One, 1989-90
- (Season in brief)
- ... Wednesday lost to Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough. Luton won 3-2 with a couple of goals from Kingsley Black, Wednesday lost 3-0 and goal difference decided it. For the record books For the fourth consecutive ...
- Created on 21 November 2009
- 26. Blind faith
- (Fan culture)
- ... was not accepted by Margaret Aspinall of the Hillsborough Support Group: “I don’t believe it is possible someone printing football shirts wouldn’t know what the message meant.” It’s worth trying to see ...
- Created on 21 October 2009
- 27. Letters, WSC 268
- (Readers' letters)
- ... to play their Champions League second leg game against Chelsea on the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough out of respect to the families of the victims and I have no problem with that. But am I the only one ...
- Created on 21 June 2009
- 28. Working class heroes
- (Politics)
- ... had been irrevocably altered by the late 1980s. In the wake of the Taylor Report into the Hillsborough disaster, and Italia 90, football would become gentrified, and machines replaced workers as colliery ...
- Created on 21 June 2009
- 29. A spring day remembered
- (Crowd control & policing)
- Two decades on from the Hillsborough disaster John Williams looks back to April 15, 1989 and how the day’s events came to shape the very identity of Liverpool FC Twenty years. Is it really that long ...
- Created on 21 May 2009
- 30. Decades of change
- (Crowd control & policing)
- ... Cup semi-finals were scheduled for simultaneous 3pm kick-offs at Villa Park and Hillsborough. Twenty years on in 2009 they will be both be at Wembley on different days, live on TV and under the banner ...
- Created on 21 May 2009
- 31. Jewell is no gem
- (Managers)
- ... base camp from which Bradford would strike out to conquer the football world, but Jewell decided he had taken Bradford as far as he could and headed for Hillsborough. His stint at Derby featured the same ...
- Created on 21 February 2009
- 32. Weekly Howl 09-01-09
- (2009)
- ... a former club chairman’s important contribution to the British baking industry on Wikipedia. --- The Sun’s sales on Merseyside never recovered from their widely condemned coverage of the Hillsborough ...
- Created on 14 January 2009
- 33. The Showbiz XI
- (Miscellaneous)
- ... Fire, Hillsborough to Dunblane, local hospices and special schools, Save The Valley, the Wishing Well Appeal, community centres. The roll-call of players includes Ray and Dave Davies of the Kinks, David ...
- Created on 21 October 2008
- 34. The Rivals Game
- (Clubs)
- ... be long-suppressed after Hillsborough. There is also plenty of humour. It’s difficult not to chuckle at the account of Sean Bean’s failed attempt to use his celebrity to get into the players’ entrance ...
- Created on 17 January 2008
- 35. The past imperfect
- (Fan culture)
- ... was being run. They reached national prominence in 1989, in the desperate aftermath of Hillsborough. The FSA, alone at times, stood up for the victims and successfully opposed the government’s identity ...
- Created on 14 December 2005
- 36. Letters, WSC 221
- (Readers' letters)
- ... arrived at Hillsborough late in the 1997-98 season, I went to watch him play for the reserves and was suitably impressed by the big footballing centre-half only to find that the player I enthused over ...
- Created on 14 July 2005
- 37. Survival instinct
- (Grounds)
- ... its fire safety certified by local authority officials. Safety standards at British football grounds improved a little – though nowhere near enough, as events at Hillsborough in 1989 would soon demonstrate ...
- Created on 14 June 2005
- 38. Healing notion
- (Crowd control & policing)
- ... and Italian football authorities. The parallels with the Hillsborough Justice Campaign are clear. Sadly, if inevitably, calls for “justice” have also been heard in some of the darker corners of Juve’s ...
- Created on 14 May 2005
- 39. Underneath the Archie
- (Grounds)
- ... the criss-cross steelwork balconies of Roker, Goodison, Ibrox, Fratton et al, and the roof-top gables of Hillsborough, Craven Cottage and Ayresome Park – the more I sensed a common thread. Delving further ...
- Created on 14 May 2005
- 40. February 2005
- (Diary)
- ... beating Hull; Bradford City’s 2-1 win over Sheffield Wednesday is their first victory at Hillsborough since 1913. Crawley Town, chasing a play-off place in the Conference, have manager Francis Vines arrested ...
- Created on 14 April 2005
