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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.
"The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred owing to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on 29 May 1985 before a football match between Liverpool F.C. from England and Juventus F.C. from Italy." Grammatically, that's not very good. Since when is hooliganism about walls collapsing?
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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 ...
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