Liverpool Team Talk/Gossip/Rumours Thread 2014 Mod Warning Post #6378

Midnight tomorrow night i guess

Full day closure so ya?

If thats what ye want that can be arranged and I'll open it tomorrow night at 00:01

Knex. wrote: »

Give it the extra hour for the anniversary that's in it. 25 years, 25 hours.

Ya, that can be arranged too.

Knex. wrote: »

Give it the extra hour for the anniversary that's in it. 25 years, 25 hours.

Class.there will be no objection to that

As a mark of respect to the 25th anniversary of Hillsborough and the 96 innocent supporters who never returned home this thread will be closed for 25 hours starting from midnight.

Well guys it was an emotional day and the service seemed lovely. Will look to see it later today.

wcarey1975 wrote: »

Well guys it was an emotional day and the service seemed lovely. Will look to see it later today.

Martinez is a class act, very impressed with his speech.

Well done lads. JFT96 YNWA

Our year!

96 people I never knew but every year on this day I think of little else. The memorial service was beautiful. Saw this earlier, fair play to whoever penned it. I read this out to my wife earlier and couldn't hold back the tears, seems a bit ridiculous but these were fellow reds and my heart goes out to their families. They'll never walk alone, they have the support of millions of us, and I think they realise that by now.:)


A schoolboy holds a leather ball
in a photograph on a bedroom wall
the bed is made, the curtains drawn
as silence greets the break of dawn.

The dusk gives way to morning light
revealing shades of red and white
, which hang from posters locked in time
of the Liverpool team of 89.

Upon a pale white quilted sheet
a football kit is folded neat
with a yellow scarf, trimmed with red
and some football boots beside the bed.

In hope, the room awakes each day
to see the boy who used to play
but once again it wakes alone
for this young boy’s not coming home.

Outside, the springtime fills the air
the smell of life is everywhere
viola’s bloom and tulips grow
while daffodils dance heel to toe.

These should have been such special times
for a boy who’d now be in his prime
but spring forever turned to grey
in the Yorkshire sun, one April day.

The clock was locked on 3.06
as sun shone down upon the pitch
lighting up faces etched in pain
as death descended on Leppings Lane.

Between the bars an arm is raised
amidst a human tidal wave
a young hand yearning to be saved
grows weak inside this deathly cage.

A boy not barely in his teens
is lost amongst the dying screams
a body too frail to fight for breath
is drowned below a sea of death

His outstretched arm then disappears
to signal thirteen years of tears
as 96 souls of those who fell
await the toll of the justice bell.

Ever since that disastrous day
a vision often comes my way
I reach and grab his outstretched arm
then pull him up away from harm.

We both embrace with tear-filled eyes
I then awake to realise
it’s the same old dream I have each week
as I quietly cry myself to sleep.

On April the 15th every year
when all is calm and skies are clear
beneath a glowing Yorkshire moon
a lone scots piper plays a tune.

The tune rings out the justice cause
then blows due west across the moors
it passes by the eternal flame
then engulfs a young boys picture frame.

His room is as it was that day
for 25 years it’s stayed that way
untouched and frozen forever in time
since that tragic day in 89.

And as it plays its haunting sound
tears are heard from miles around
they’re tears from families of those who fell
awaiting the toll of the justice bell.

These videos belong here .

I usually don't comment on this subject but everything about that service was brilliant.

Also I have to mention, Sky News' Kay Burley interrupted the live coverage to state on-air that Sky News distanced themselves from the comments Martinez made. I know, I know typical.

Apologies for bringing a negative comment to the table but it had to be mentioned.

kingshankly wrote: »

Roberto Martinez what a guy

Everton have shown time and time again what a class club thay are

knucklehead6 wrote: »

on a slightly lighter note i see Gav got himself post of the day.

Was never the intention

Just wanted to do the right thing and show respect, it was a great idea and gesture, brought up by you guys, I merely pushed the buttons.

Im just glad so many understood and were on the same page regarding the closure and what it was about, a may have been a small gesture but it was a very thoughtful one too.

Suarezistheman wrote: »

ESPN 30 for 30 Hillsborough Doc goes out tomorrow night and is defo not to be missed. Anybody got any advice on how to watch on Espn if it's possible at all??!

http://www.reddit.com/r/footballdownload/comments/233tmi/request_espns_30_for_30_hillsborough/

Owls fan in peace.

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