The Hillsborough Disaster was a deadly human crush that occured in 15 April 1989, at Hillsborough, a football stadium home to Sheffield Wednesday in Sheffield, England, resulting in deaths of 96 people (all fans of Liverpool FC who were assigned to the Leppings Lane End of the stadium). It remains the deadliest stadium-related disaster in British history and one of the worst in international football. It was the second of two stadium-related disaster to feature Liverpool supporters, the other being the Heysel Stadium Disaster in 1985.
Liverpool fans desperately try to climb the fence onto the safety of the pitch
The match was an FA Cup semi-final clash between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. It was abandoned six minutes into the first half.
The inquiry into the disaster, the Taylor Report, name the cause as failure of police control, and resulted in the conversion of many football stadium in United Kingdom to all-seater and the removal of barriers at the front of stands.
The Leppings Lane end after the tragedy
On 15 April 2009, fans of all sides totalling 28000 people, gathered at Anfield to pay their respects twenty years on, and starting at 3.06 pm there were two minutes' silence in respect. This included public transport coming to a stand-still. Nottingham and Sheffiled also gathered for two minutes' silence to pay their respects.
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