Source: Daily_Mail
MARTIN SAMUEL: There will never be justice for the Hillsborough victims - but football can still be
Sometimes there is nojustice. The families of those who died at Hillsborough 20 years agostill receive our sympathy and with that comes a certain solace amidthe sadness, but the apology, the admission of accountability thatwould salve their feelings of anger, will not now be heard at this latestage. [LNB]It can be no consolation to read that football grounds arebetter places or that what came out of tragedy, the Lord Justice TaylorReport, has been the making of the modern club game in England.[LNB]Thereis a new generation of supporters now, many of whom have no memory ofwhat it was like to go to a game in 20th century Britain. They havenever seen a sign by a stairwell like the one at the back of the oldNorth Bank at Upton Park.[LNB] Tribute: The Hillsborough memorial at Anfield this morning [LNB]'Remember Ibrox?' it said, and we did because, in 1971, 66supporters were killed in stairway 13 there when barriers gave waytowards the end of an Old Firm game. Bodies piled up six feet high atthe bottom of the steps. [LNB]Compressive asphyxia, the stealer of lives atHillsborough, was the cause of death that day, too. Among thecasualties were five schoolmates, aged between 13 and 15, fromMarkinch, Fife. The youngest victim was nine.[LNB] MARTIN SAMUEL: If the team Fergie built is doomed we should all be truly grateful...JEFF POWELL ON HILLSBOROUGH: That sun-kissed Saturday will haunt me foreverHillsborough remembered 20 years on: I'll never forget their screams...HILLSBOROUGH TRIBUTE BOARDS: Leave your messages[LNB]And nothing changed. Any child of that era knows what it felt like,literally, to leave a ground without your feet touching the floor.[LNB]Theymay also remember a phenomenon known as a 'Moorgate', named after thetrain crash in 1975 when a London Underground driver called LeslieNewson took his Northern Line train at high speed through Moorgatestation into a wall at the end of the line, killing 43. [LNB]It took fourand a half days to recover his body. A human recreation of this event,tumbling down and ending with an uncontrolled surge towards the fencesaround the pitch, took place with each goal. [LNB]Reasons to remember: Jimmy Mizen was saluted at Millwall[LNB]In retrospect, it was a miracle tragedy took so long to reachEnglish football. In the immediate aftermath of Hillsborough, manysupporters of Tottenham Hotspur claimed a similar disaster had beenclose at the Leppings Lane end during their semi-final withWolverhampton Wanderers in 1981. [LNB]They drew it to the attention of theFootball Association, but nothing happened, No justice then, either.At Millwall on Monday night, I met Barry Mizen, whose son, Jimmy, wasmurdered last May in an act of random violence.[LNB]Jimmy was aMillwall fan like the rest of his family. He was remembered with aminute of applause before the game. Barry would like to see thatreplicated at every ground in the country on the last day of theseason, not in memory of Jimmy, but as a unifying stand against gun andknife crime.[LNB]We all hope football can be a force for social goodand this may be dizzily optimistic but, for once, it would be upliftingif change could begin without more families needing to bury their lovedones. Not one person, not 96. And we would be nearer to justice.[LNB] MARTIN SAMUEL: If the team Fergie built is doomed we should all be truly grateful...JEFF POWELL ON HILLSBOROUGH: That sun-kissed Saturday will haunt me foreverHillsborough remembered 20 years on: I'll never forget their screams...HILLSBOROUGH TRIBUTE BOARDS: Leave your messages[LNB][LNB]
