davek
Player Valuation: £150m
http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2010/05/25/former-liverpool-fc-chief-executive-peter-robinson-says-heysel-was-an-accident-waiting-to-happen-100252-26512757/
It wuz the National Front!
“I was in the stand that night, not the official area. At 9pm I made my way to the area where the disaster occurred. I tried to speak to a group of Liverpool fans. Some explained the problems – the total lack of control...people had tickets which hadn’t been torn in half. Then a group of men descended on me and said their tickets were from the black market. But they wouldn’t show me them. They had strong southern accents and they suddenly turned aggressive and started chanting ‘Shankly’. That was strange as Bill Shankly hadn’t been our manager for 12 years. It was well documented at that time that members of the National Front went to matches. And it was very odd to me this group should be here. They were quite vicious and we had to move on. It was not a good experience.”
Oh, and it's good to see it didn't affect LFC's future success too much:
“In the end English clubs were banned from Europe for six years and we one year longer. We didn’t serve that extra three years.
“We thought what happened might have an effect on the club. But we didn’t know the consequences with regard to the loss of season ticket sales.
“We decided we had to maintain a top team. We’d made a lot savings and we looked to increase those where we could.
“We’d just joined Adidas on a much improved contract so we didn’t need to sell any players and were able to maintain the team and experience success in domestic football.
Unbelievable.
It wuz the National Front!
“I was in the stand that night, not the official area. At 9pm I made my way to the area where the disaster occurred. I tried to speak to a group of Liverpool fans. Some explained the problems – the total lack of control...people had tickets which hadn’t been torn in half. Then a group of men descended on me and said their tickets were from the black market. But they wouldn’t show me them. They had strong southern accents and they suddenly turned aggressive and started chanting ‘Shankly’. That was strange as Bill Shankly hadn’t been our manager for 12 years. It was well documented at that time that members of the National Front went to matches. And it was very odd to me this group should be here. They were quite vicious and we had to move on. It was not a good experience.”
Oh, and it's good to see it didn't affect LFC's future success too much:
“In the end English clubs were banned from Europe for six years and we one year longer. We didn’t serve that extra three years.
“We thought what happened might have an effect on the club. But we didn’t know the consequences with regard to the loss of season ticket sales.
“We decided we had to maintain a top team. We’d made a lot savings and we looked to increase those where we could.
“We’d just joined Adidas on a much improved contract so we didn’t need to sell any players and were able to maintain the team and experience success in domestic football.
Unbelievable.
