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The Heysel Stadium disaster (Italian: Strage dell'Heysel [ˈstraːdʒe delleiˈzɛl]; German: Katastrophe von Heysel [ˌkataˈstʁoːfə fɔn ˈhaɪzl̩]; French: Drame du Heysel [dʁam dy ɛzɛl]; Dutch: Heizeldrama [ˈɦɛizəlˌdraːmaː]) was a crowd disaster that occurred on 29 May 1985 when Juventus fans were escaping from an attack by Liverpool fans while they were pressed against a ...
The gestures were made to taunt the home fans about the Heysel stadium disaster, when 39 Juventus fans died in a crush before the club’s European Cup final against Liverpool in May 1985.
In 1946, the stadium was stripped of the wood of its cycling track, and was renamed the Heysel Stadium (French: Stade du Heysel, Dutch: Heizelstadion), after the neighbourhood in which it is located. [2] In 1971, a tartan track was installed allowing the organisation of athletics competitions.
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Plan of the Heysel Stadium, showing the section of the stadium where the disaster occurred. Fagan's second season in charge was less successful, as Liverpool failed to win a trophy for the first time in nine years. [98] The defence of their League championship was all but over in October 1984 when Liverpool were in the relegation places. [99]
Tuesday's naming rights announcement is the first for the stadium since the Brown family paid $5 million when it opened in 2000. 'PayJoe Stadium': Social media reactions to name change of Bengals ...
17 September – Screensport covers, and sponsors, the Football League Super Cup, a competition designed to compensate clubs banned from European competition following the Heysel Stadium disaster. 22 September – Channel 4 celebrates 30 years of ITV with an evening of classic programmes from them.
The Seattle Seahawks are still several hours away from taking on the Arizona Cardinals, but the franchise is already in the headlines this Thursday for changing its stadium’s name. Since the ...