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  Heysel Stadium disaster Information
The Heysel Stadium disaster was an accident that occurred due to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29 1985 during a football match between Liverpool F.C. from England and Juventus FC from Italy.
Despite the scale of the disaster, it was felt that abandoning the game would have risked inciting further trouble, and the match eventually kicked off after the captains of both sides spoke to the crowd and appealed for calm.
Heysel Stadium continued to be used for hosting athletics for almost 10 years, but no further football matches took place in the old stadium.
www.bookrags.com /Heysel_Stadium_disaster   (2344 words)

  
  Stadium - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
A modern stadium (plural stadiums or stadia in English) is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
An exception is the basketball arena at Duke University, which is called Cameron Indoor Stadium and the old Chicago Stadium, former home of the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL and Chicago Bulls of the NBA.
The term "stadium" has also often been used for a baseball park, especially since the construction of Yankee Stadium in 1923, which had a running track initially, as a "true" stadium would, and was also used for football.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Stadium   (1648 words)

  
  Heysel
The Heysel Exhibition Park is the place in the north of the centre of Brussels, Belgium, where the World's Fair of 1935 and 1958 took place.
The Heysel Park is also the location of the Heysel Stadium, built in 1930.
After the Heysel Stadium disaster it was rebuilt and renamed to King Baudouin Stadium.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Heysel.html   (133 words)

  
 Heysel Stadium disaster
The Heysel Stadium disaster was an event that took place at the 1985 football European Cup final in the Heysel suburb of Brussels, Belgium.
On May 29, 1985, Liverpool F.C. played Juventus in the European Cup Final, held at the Heysel Stadium.
In a widely criticized move, the Belgian authorities had allocated a section of the ground to neutral fans.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/he/Heysel_Stadium_disaster.html   (218 words)

  
 Stadium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A modern stadium (plural stadiums or stadia in English) is a place, or venue, for (mostly) outdoor sports, concerts or other events, consisting of a field or stage partly or completely surrounded by a structure designed to allow spectators to stand or sit and view the event.
An exception is the basketball arena at Duke University, which is called Cameron Indoor Stadium and the old Chicago Stadium, former home of the Chicago Blackhawks of the NHL and Chicago Bulls of the NBA.
The term "stadium" has also often been used for a baseball park, especially since the construction of Yankee Stadium in 1923, which had a running track initially, as a "true" stadium would, and was also used for football.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Stadium   (1570 words)

  
 Heysel Tragedy - Liverpool FC - Liverpool FC - LFC Online
The decrepid stadium in Brussels was unsuitable to hold such a major sporting event, and the authorities were heavily criticised for their lack of organisation and poor ticket allocation ahead of the game.
The stadium, built in 1930, was never to be used for a football match ever again and was rebuilt and renamed the Stade Roi Baudouin for Euro 2000.
Since Heysel both clubs have made attempts to heal the wounds caused by the tragedy and many Liverpool fans are determined to not let the horrors of 29th May 1985 ever be forgotten.
www.lfconline.com /news/loadsngl.asp?CID=EDB3   (431 words)

  
 News Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Heysel commemoration was proposed by the chairman of the council's Hillsborough disaster working party, Peter Millea, at its meeting in March.
Mr Millea said: "The Hillsborough and Heysel tragedies are events that deeply affected and shaped the consciousness of this city and its people.
The disaster led to all English clubs being banned from European football for five years, with a 10-year ban on Liverpool's participation.
www.walkonlfc.com /news/may00/heysel.htm   (250 words)

  
 Crowd Dynamics Ltd - Heysel Stadium Disaster
As with Hillsborough, the Heysel Stadium was criticised for the decrepit and unsafe facilities and it was deemed that the Stadium was totally unsuitable to host such an occasion.
Heysel, says Baudrillard, did not happen by chance; it was the inevitable result of the desire of spectators to turn themselves into actors.
The truth is that the collapsed wall at Heysel was a deadly metaphor for the gathering destructive forces that brought English football culture to its knees.
www.crowddynamics.com /Disasters/heysel_stadium_disaster.htm   (4261 words)

  
 uefa.com
UEFA has been working tirelessly in recent years within the campaign to ensure that football matches are a pleasure to attend for the game’s enthusiasts and protagonists.
European football’s governing body has been at the forefront of moves to improve safety and security at football matches, especially in the wake of the Heysel Stadium disaster in Belgium in 1985, with stringent security requirements and provisions for all-seated spectators put into place at UEFA matches.
Stadium and artificial turf matters are administered by UEFA's National Associations division under director Jacob Erel.
www.uefa.com /uefa/keytopics/kind=1048576/index.html   (403 words)

  
 Stadium information - Search.com
Most stadiums are open-air, such as this football (soccer) stadium in the Netherlands.
Stadiums built specifically for some form of football are quite common.
The spectator areas of a stadium are often referred to as terraces, especially in the United Kingdom but also in some American baseball parks, as an alternative to the term tier.
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 Heysel | Liverpool FC | AnfieldRed
The Heysel disaster of 29 May, 1985, led to the deaths of 39 fans and a five-year blanket ban on English clubs in European football.
The old venue, built in 1930, was demolished after the disaster and replaced by the all-seater Stade Roi Baudouin, which has never been used to stage club football.
Gerald McKinley, a Liverpool fan who was at Heysel but not involved in the rioting, said: "Heysel was almost certainly going to happen because no one, anywhere, seemed capable of stopping the violence.
www.anfieldred.co.uk /players/heysel   (433 words)

  
 Stadium information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Most stadiums are open-air, such as this football (soccer) stadium in the Netherlands.
Stadiums built specifically for some form of football are quite common.
The spectator areas of a stadium are often referred to as terraces, especially in the United Kingdom but also in some American baseball parks, as an alternative to the term tier.
c10-ss-1-lb.cnet.com /reference/Stadium   (1497 words)

  
 The Heysel Stadium disaster cover up of 1985.
Although the stadium was crumbling, it would take a basic smattering of know how to imagine that crumbling terraces in a stadium built on backhanders by cowboy builders might perhaps point to other structural decay and deterioration in the walls and the actual crush barriers.
In the case of Heysel, Maggie Thatcher actually threw the evidence and legal statutes in the bin, and she 'knew' Liverpool fans were to blame because she saw it on TV.
The Heysel families could take out private prosecutions against the fans involved in the trouble, but given the many parties involved in the events, this would be doomed to failure if it were the main thrust of any legal moves.
www.kirkbytimes.co.uk /news_items/2005_news/may/heysel_cover_up_exposed.html   (7847 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Heysel Stadium disaster
The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred due to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29 1985 during a football match between Liverpool F.C. from England and Juventus F.C. from Italy.
Heysel Stadium continued to be used for hosting athletics for almost 10 years, but no further football matches took place in the old stadium.
On May 29, 2005, a £140,000 sculpture was unveiled at the new Heysel stadium, to commemorate the disaster.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Heysel_Disaster   (2751 words)

  
 Heysel Stadium disaster - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
The Heysel Stadium disaster was an event that took place at the 1985 football European Cup final at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
It is widely suspected that the root cause of the disaster was the events of the 1984 final, when Liverpool had played AS Roma in Rome (the venue for the Final was picked months in advance, before it was known who would be playing).
They had won the match, but their supporters were attacked afterwards by violent elements of Italian ultras: many others were locked out of hotels and abandoned by their coach drivers who were supposed to be taking them to the airport.
www.music.us /education/H/Heysel-Stadium-disaster.htm   (738 words)

  
 The Heysel tragedy
Had it not done so at the Heysel Stadium, something similar was bound to have happened somewhere, such was the level of antagonism surrounding English football at the time.
Until the Heysel Stadium, the terraces of English football grounds were little more than filthy concrete expanses where tens of thousands of people were literally locked in and left to their own devices for a couple of hours every Saturday afternoon.
The Heysel stadium was a disgrace anw was crumbling.
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 Heysel_Stadium - The definative answer from Alt & Ego   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Following the Heysel Stadium disaster of May 29, 1985, the ground was only used for athletics and it still hosts the Memorial Van Damme every year.
On May 26, 2006 the Belgian Football Association decided not to use King Baudouin Stadium anymore for the national team home matches and for the Cup final, because the gates of stand one were too narrow and the stadium was deemed unsafe.
Because of this, the city of Brussels issued a complaint that the stadium was safe in contrary to the reports and this complaint was ruled to be correct in court.
www.altandego.com /wiki.asp?k=Heysel_Stadium   (424 words)

  
 Heysel Revisited - Liverpool v Juventus :: Soccerphile
The Heysel was a crumbling dinosaur of a stadium but would still have seemed exceptionally decrepit to the Liverpool fans that evening.
In terms of the sport it was a disaster for England as it gave us an excuse to turn in on ourselves and ignore the rest of the world's football.
At the FA headquarters at Lancaster Gate the Heysel ban coincided with the ruinous reign of Charlie Hughes as Director of Coaching.
www.soccerphile.com /soccerphile/news/sean/heysel.html   (1680 words)

  
 Heysel Stadium disaster at AllExperts
The Heysel Stadium disaster was an accident that occurred due to football hooliganism in which a retaining wall of the Heysel Stadium in Brussels collapsed on May 29 1985 during a football match between Liverpool F.C. from England and Juventus FC from Italy.
What then followed were two full hours of rioting at the Juventus end of the stadium, fully recorded and documented by the continuing pan-European TV coverage of the event.
Juventus won 1–0 with a penalty scored by Michel Platini, prompting passionate celebrations from the players and fans, although TV replays showed that the foul which led to the penalty happened outside the area.
en.allexperts.com /e/h/he/heysel_stadium_disaster.htm   (2367 words)

  
 Heysel Stadium disaster - Definition, explanation
The Heysel Stadium disaster took place at the 1985 football European Cup final at the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium.
The hostility that gave rise to the disaster had its root cause in the events of the 1984 final, when Liverpool had played AS Roma in Rome.
The Heysel stadium itself has since been completely rebuilt, and is now called the King Baudouin Stadium.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/h/he/heysel_stadium_disaster.php   (593 words)

  
 Heysel disaster forced changes in soccer - Turkish Daily News Apr 03, 2005
The Heysel Stadium disaster which killed 39 fans on May 29, 1985 was not the first time death had blighted soccer.
However it was the first such disaster to be televised live to 77 countries and the first that occurred because of the mindless, drunken behavior of hooligans.
What contributed most was the drunken, violent behavior of Liverpool fans, many of whom went to the Heysel Stadium armed with bricks, knives and poles and with the hatred of revenge burning in their hearts.
www.turkishdailynews.com.tr /article.php?enewsid=9748&mailtofriend=1   (937 words)

  
 YNWA.TV -> Forum -> York journo sick of 'justice for 96'
For example, the man who runs down a girl accidentally in the street and gets four years in jail for dangerous driving, that might be seen as probably justice to me and you but not to the girl's family as you can't replace a life for a life.
The victims of Heysel at least got some sense of justice as something was seen to be done to punish the miscreants (punishments already stated) and nobody is left in any doubt as to who was to blame for what happened.
The people I feel sorry for most of all are the families who lost people in the disaster and who don't court the publicity and just want it all to go away so they can get on with their lives.
www.ynwa.tv /forum/index.php?showtopic=122689&view=getlastpost   (3143 words)

  
 Soccernet.com Euro 2000 News: No tears - just a silent scream amongst the carnage
The Heysel Stadium it was and the Heysel Stadium Disaster it will forever be.
They forced entry through a neglected hole at the rear wall of that ageing stadium, flattened some rickety wire fencing and stampeded the Italian occupants off the adjacent terrace and into that wall of death.
Heysel pronounced English football leprous and we were banished to the wilderness for five years to seek a cure.
www.soccernet.com /euro2000/news/20000609powellfeat.html   (1099 words)

  
 Heysel Exhibition Park, Attractions of Brussels, Travel to Belgium
The Heysel Exhibition Park is the place in the north of the centre of Brussels, Belgium, where the World's Fair of 1935 and 1958 (the Expo '58) took place.
Mini-Europe is a part of Heysel in Brussels, Belgium that contains replicas of famous buildings from countries in the European Union, presented at a scale of 1 to 25.
A decade after the disaster the ground was rebuilt and renamed at a cost of BEF 1,500 million (around $50 million in 1995).
www.magicaljourneys.com /Belgium/belgium-interest-brussels-heysel.html   (527 words)

  
 The Standard - Belgium remembers - Sports Section
The city of Brussels marks the anniversary of the Heysel stadium disaster on Sunday by commemorating the deaths of 39 people, most of them Italian football supporters, for the first time in 20 years.
On the evening of May 29, 1985, what was supposed to be a celebration of European sport between two clubs at their peak turned into a nightmare that changed the way that football would be watched in stadia forever.
Indeed the problems at the stadium, which have never been investigated, were so grave it is hard to believe that no one would have spotted the tragedy waiting to happen.
www.thestandard.com.hk /stdn/std/Sports/GE28Dk07.html   (553 words)

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