Hillsborough survivors

SwedenRed:

My travel companion M.McCabe died at Hillsborough. I was one of the unlucky ones in the Leppings Lane end that day. Unlucky in the sense that I have to live with this all my life, but lucky I am alive and I can carry on with life.

Never will I forget the moment when I couldnt breathe and clinging on to an arm from above who pulled me free of the crush. This person I feel I owe my life to. We tried to pull people free but couldnt... Some who were freed were dead. We begged officers to open the gates to ferry the injured across the pitch to waiting ambulances, away near the Forest end, accross the pitch. What was happening was obvious for all to see, but Police Officers turned a blind eye. Eventually gates opened and we ferried the injured to get help, but most couldnt get help or didnt need help... they were helpless.

It was a scene of pannick and horror. I saw my own fans die in front of me, and we could not no anything to save them. After a while I just went to a seat at the side of the pitch and cried.
On the way back to the train Station I and a friend were set upon by Forest thugs blaming us for the game not taking place. Luckily we were thrown into an ambulance for our safety.
I called home from a kind person who lived close to the stadium... mum was in a hysterical mess.
Back on the train was silence... Many persons missing from our party of supporters. Who knows if they were dead or alive, or just lost?.

Never will I forget what happened. It feels like yesterday, and the pain and sufferring is sometimes unbearable. We only went to a football match and just because of a serious error of judgement, 96 never went home. I want justice. Why did I lose a friend? Why did I lose 96 fellow supporters, and why do I have to go on in life with this pain? Whilst we dont have answers and no one has been brought to justice. It is a disgrace.