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As suggested above, nice and balanced then. how about following it with "Heysel" for next year's 25th anniversary - oh, but that doesn't reflect too well on Liverpool does it and after all, it was events like Heysel, which led to the fences being in the grounds in the first place.
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As suggested above, nice and balanced then. how about following it with "Heysel" for next year's 25th anniversary - oh, but that doesn't reflect too well on Liverpool does it and after all, it was events like Heysel, which led to the fences being in the grounds in the first place.
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I mean, not a single arrest for a football-related offence, and the terrible problems that we had in Heysel and Hillsborough in the 1980s seem now to be behind us.
Hillsborough disaster: MPs debate disclosure of secret documents - as it happened 2011
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When he took over at Old Trafford, English clubs were banned from European competition, following the 1985 Heysel Stadium disaster .
The Ballad of Sir Alex Gabriele Marcotti 2011
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Fifa confirmed the nation could not cover its costs. £18m: Cost of July's 100-minute long closed-doors World Cup finals draw in Brazil for 1,000 Fifa dignitaries. £800m: Fifa's surplus cash fund.€20k: Inter's fine after fans taunted Juventus with a banner mocking the Heysel disaster, plus chants calling it "the greatest show"; Juve were fined €10k for fans responding with racist abuse of Inter's Maicon.
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The game at Anfield was also shamed by chanting about the Hillsborough and Heysel disasters.
Liverpool-Manchester United Youth Cup match marred by four red cards 2011
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Unlike 1985, when a then 34-year-old Dalglish replaced Joe Fagan in the wake of the Heysel disaster and won a league and FA Cup double in his debut season, the 59-year-old now finds himself working on the fragile confidence of a team four points above the relegation zone.
Liverpool job is the best I've ever been offered, says Kenny Dalglish 2011
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Kenny Dalglish's European debut tainted with memories of Heysel
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Apart from that, Dalglish's presence at the disasters of Heysel and Hillsborough must have stripped him of the delusion that football should ever take precedence over normal, priceless life.
Why Manchester United made life easy for Kenny Dalglish's Liverpool | Kevin McCarra 2011
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But he also played in the 1985 European Cup final at the Heysel stadium in Brussels, which took place while 39 Juventus supporters lay dead or dying, and was managing the side four years later when 96 of their own supporters perished in the Hillsborough disaster.
Kenny Dalglish's touch deserts him in case of misplaced solidarity | Richard Williams 2012
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