Sheffield Wednesday

[cracker]

Last Saturday I went to Hillsborough watch SWFC V Watford - yeah I know !! - but my daughter lives in Sheffield and we (me and my 2 sons) went to pick her up and bring her home for Xmas and thought we'd take in a game at the same time.

Rubbish game at which we were sat in amongst the Wednesday fans but we ourselves were totally neutral. WFC scored after 5 minutes and SWFC were not good enough to equalise sums it up - the most 'entertaining' part was listening to the SWFC fan sat next to my son who was possibly the most biased 'fan' I have ever heard with his comments on the Watford team, the ref, Ady Bothroyd, the ball boys and anything else which annoyed him - they were all the reason why Wednesday lost and not the fact that they were rubbish - you know the type - hopefully when I watch LFC I am just a little less biased than the SWFC muppets near me. I mean even the pensioner lady sat next to me told Marlon King she hoped he breaks his leg!! And people wonder why normal people regard footy fans as neanderthals.

Anyway that lot was not my main point - this was the first time I have been to that stadium since 1989 and I went to the Leppings Lane end after the game to see if there was any kind of reference to the tragedy but could not see anything. Is there anything there? I seem to recall reading some time ago that there was some kind of token memorial but SWFC had been rather slow in erecting something. Has someone any facts to fill me in so I can check it out if I go again?

[jamespp]

yeah, there is one

http://www.liverpoolfc.tv/lfc_story/memorial/

[cracker]

Thanks mate thats helpful - took them till 1999 did it - shocking.

Did not see it there myself - do you know if it is at the Leppings Lane end?

TBH it was dark on Saturday at 4.55 after the match and my sons were moaning about how cold they were and they wanted to get back to the car so we did not look round for long.

[Steve]

Originally Posted by cracker Did not see it there myself - do you know if it is at the Leppings Lane end? .

No its at the main stand, Wednesday have done everything they can to erase the disaster that happened at the Leppings Lane end. Have a look here

http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/boycott.shtm

[Cath]

The memorial is on Catch Bar Lane by the new entrance to the main stand, opposite the park. Walk up Leppings Lane and turn first left after the bridge. It's a fairly simple memorial but serves as a point for away fans to pay respects (and many still do). I have also witnessed fathers explaining to their small sons what the memorial represents. A small group of us still visit every 15th April and the SWFC chaplain holds a short service. Everyone welcome. I was one of the biggest critics of SWFC in '89 but the current board are every different to the board of Graham Mackrell.

[bigredruss]

iirc it was only announced when we planned to boycott the game. plenty still went i wanted to be didn't