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The front page of The Sun on 19 April 1989 carried falsehoods about fan behaviour during the Hillsborough disaster.. Coverage of the Hillsborough disaster by the British tabloid The Sun led to the newspaper's decline in Liverpool and the broader Merseyside region, with organised boycotts against it.
The Hillsborough disaster was a fatal crowd crush at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, on 15 April 1989. It occurred during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest in the two standing-only central pens within the Leppings Lane stand allocated to Liverpool supporters.
7 May 1989 – Three weeks after the Hillsborough disaster, Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final clash with Nottingham Forest is replayed at Old Trafford. Liverpool win 3–1 to keep their dream of a second double alive. [81] 10 May 1989 – England striker Gary Lineker collects a European Cup Winners' Cup medal as Barcelona beat Sampdoria 2–0 in ...
Read CNN’s Fast Facts about the Hillsborough Disaster, a 1989 tragedy at a British soccer stadium. Overcrowding in the stands led to the deaths of 96 fans.
Two former police officers and a solicitor are accused of amending statements about the day of the disaster at the 1989 FA Cup semi-final. Hillsborough officer invited by accused lawyer to ...
Ninety-seven people died at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest on April 15 1989. Liverpool to fall silent to mark 35 years since Hillsborough disaster Skip to main content
April 1989 saw the single biggest controversy during MacKenzie's period as editor, later described in a Sun editorial in 2004 as "the most terrible mistake in our history", [23] occurred in the aftermath of the Hillsborough disaster, a crowd crush during an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough football stadium in Sheffield, which claimed the lives ...
The city will pause for a minute’s silence on Friday at 3.06pm.