15. April 1989 is a day that always will be remembered in all Liverpool fans minds. Because that day it were the F.A. cup semi-finals that was going to be the main thing that day. The match was between Liverpool FC and Nottingham Forrest. The day were suppose to be glory and happy, but instead it was going to be one of the darkest days, where 96 people lost their lives in a big disaster.
It all started at 15.00 that were where the semifinal showdown started, but already six minutes later the referee stopped the match, there were some disturbances in the end where the Liverpool supporters were. The disturbances had been building earlier, because the police and stadium workers had opened another entrance because then the supporters could get to their seat as fast as possible. This decision was taken by a man named David Duckinfield, who just got promoted to a high ranked police officer, and it all resulted in a bottleneck at the two entrances to the Leppings Lane section that was reserved for Liverpool fans, so people were almost "shot" onto their seats. This huge wave of people who poured into the Leppings Lane, got the spectators in the front to move up against the fence that would keep the crowd back from the football field. More and more people were pushed forward and in the front row the fans began to scream. The police had already lost their control of the situation, and despite the escalating situation, they fought to keep the fans back in the grandstands. Afterwards the police had to open the fence and all outputs, because they could see that people were dying in front of them. After a few hours later the death number raised higher and higher..
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