On this, the eve of the 22nd anniversary of Hillsborough, Liverpool fans across the globe begin to come together to remember the 96 so cruelly taken on that day.
I was born two months after the disaster, so could not possibly begin to understand the terror and dread that filled that day. As I've got older I've read the accounts of people who were there, and the stories of people who weren't. It is a day that is absolutely scarred into the mind of all Liverpool fans, whether you were there or not even born.
It is part of the education that we all go through - from our fathers, our friends, people we've never met but whose stories we read of the glorious eras of Shankly, Paisley, Dalglish make us feel like we were there in Rome in '84, or on the Kop in '77 when St. Etienne came to town a goal to the good...
I sincerely doubt I could write anything worthy of tomorrow, I'll leave that to the people who have written so brilliantly and hauntingly already.
Instead, all that could possibly be said.
You'll never walk alone.
The 96 angels, their families and friends.
Justice for the 96. Don't buy the sun.
Educate yourself: http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/
God bless.
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