That Lad
A poem about the horrors of Hillsborough.
April fifteenth, nineteen-eighty-nine.
Semi-final day, the weather was fine.
Set off for Hillsborough in our mini-bus.
Laughing and...
Ninety Six Souls – A Survivor’s Story
Six minutes past three on that tragic day.
The pain and the trauma won't go away.
Crushed as I was in that terrible pen.
Dead bodies around...
Sir Roger Hunt (An Appreciation)
Advancing years has its advantages, not many I grant you and these tend to be outweighed by dribbling senility and incontinence.
One however is...
Smokin’ Joe
This is my tribute to one of the most down to earth, easy going, coaching genius’s that our club has ever had, R.I.P. Joe...
The Occasion
By Finton Bell
But it was the 10th anniversary of the disaster at Hillsborough, fans from all over flocked to Anfield to remember, protest, and...
August 30th 1953
The following article is the preface to Peter Etherington's book One Boy And His Kop.
29th August 1953: Bootle Hospital Maternity Ward: 7:30 p.m.
"Yer...
Bob Paisley: Jane’s Story
Caz had told me several times in the weeks leading up to Christmas about how big a Liverpool fan her dad was.
He’d even...
My Istanbul Story
Reds of my generation, or more precisely my age, have a curious relationship with the European Cup.
In 1977 watching the Reds was a...