Fellas,
Excuse the rambling-just watched and re-watched the speeches ; and I'm breaking a common sense rule- don't post when pissed.
I was working in Exeter in 1989. Hillsborough was my first ever LFC game , home or away.Went up with some colleagues from work . I was SO excited.
The crowd was in a good mood , sure some of us had had a warmup but certainly well behaved.We were in such a good mood and so looking forward to the day.I don't know what happened but all of a sudden it went completely tits up. F...ing gates colllapsed , a group of us got pushed forward and under seats.Seemed like forever to get up then , christ , I can't describe what we saw.And the noise- screaming , crying,yelling.I won't ever forget it.
We managed to get up and saw bodies on the pitch , in the stand.I could barely breath , it hurt so much but we went to help if we could ( I'm in the profession , so to speak).Spent God knows how much time doing CPR on anyone we could find. Saved 4 or 5 , don't remember , lots more we couldn't help.A group of us carted people away on anything we cou d find , just to get them away from the carnage.Middle of pitch was safe enough.f**king police were as useless as tits on a bull.
We kept going until we just ran out of energy; didn't know what else to do.Eventually we wandered away.Dunno how many people we walked out; I figured we couldn't help the dead or dying so we ended up concentrating on the less badly injured.I'm still in contact with one of the guys who was there; we still wonder if we made the right calls but , who knows?
A couple of things stick with me; Kenny was just immense in the aftermath.He was hurting but was calm , dignified and was always there.At hospital , at the club , at homes- just a legend.Absolute class that man , love him to bits.
Second , when that c**t Duckerfield came out and blamed the fans- I could quite happily have stabbed the prick if I'd met him.There was NONe of that , absolutely none.
Third , when that arswipe Mackenzie came out with his bile , I couldn't believe it.The boys did everything they could do to help , spent hours carrying people to ambulances ..and for that sh*t to come out with the bollocks...I've never looked at his rag or looked at the site since then.
Anyhoo , sorry for the ramblings.I'm finding today a bit hard so off to the beach with a bottle to think and cry.
THanks for listening those of you who made it to the end.
Cheers guys.
YNWA
