champion godfather

Chapter 65 Football is higher than life and death?
It was the darkest moment in English football, and it is a moment that countless Liverpool fans will never forget. Everything that happened on that day has continued until now, and even in the future.The once powerful Liverpool team has since declined, hovering on the edge of pain and confusion, and can't find their way home...

Because of this incident, all stadiums in the UK changed standing seats to sitting seats, removed the fences to prevent football hooligans from clashing, and improved security measures in all aspects of the stadium.When today's fans sit in the refurbished stadium stands with plastic seats to watch the game, they all know in their hearts that this is the result of those 96 lives.

The clock was fixed at 1989:4 pm on April 15, [-], the time of the Hillsborough tragedy.

"...more and more people pouring in through the gate tunnel... We saw the Liverpool fans in the next stand getting crowded, but there were still people coming up. I... I was next to them In the grandstand, a child was squeezed in the block right in front of me, and he begged me for help...but I...but I was scared to death, I've never seen such a miserable scene..." Michael's voice began to tremble , "I don't know how to help him, his face is flushed, and blood is oozing from his nose..."

Michael couldn't continue, he lay on the table with his head in his hands, his heavy breathing echoed in the empty bar.

It was a long time before Michael's voice sounded again: "I have never faced death so close. Countless people fell in front of me. They wailed, cried, and moaned... I just stood there stupidly. The boy who asked me for help lay on his stomach. At my feet, he didn't cry or make trouble... I found out later that the child was only ten years old, and he went to watch the football with his neighbor..."

"This incident suddenly made me understand how stupid the life I lived in the past ten years. John and I thought we were full and chic, and thought that being injured and bleeding was our reward. When we fought, we shouted: 'Either you die, or I die'... But when the real death appeared in front of us, everyone was dumbfounded and trembling with fear. Later, when we walked out with our arms, I saw a person with me Now this big man is caught and dragged backwards by two cops, he struggles like hell, yelling: 'Let me go, my two daughters are inside! I'm not a football hooligan' at that moment, I did it for myself Ashamed of what happened. Tony, do you know what caused that?"

Tang En replied in a questioning tone: "Too many people?"

"No, it was us. It was us who caused that tragedy." Michael said, poking his chest. "We would never say we were 'football hooligans', but we knew we were. At that time, any team would have a fan club like us, the media called us 'football hooligans', and others We were called 'football hooligans'. To prevent people like us from rushing into the stadium and causing trouble, almost all stadiums at that time had those eight-foot barbed wire fences installed between the stands... If Hillsborough Stadium didn't have these fences, those fans would It's easy to run to the field to escape - although it will interrupt the game, but what is a game compared to 96 lives? In fact, fans tried to climb over the fence to escape, but they were caught by nervous police I thought it was a football hooligan, and I was rushed back to the crowded stands!"

"After that game, John, Bill and I quit the club. Mark Hodge tried to dissuade me, but I made up my mind. Hodge thought we had betrayed them, so he cut us off. But I don't care, Hodge Qi thinks that we are cowards. Only people like him are considered warriors, the most loving and loyal fans to the team. That is his idea. I just want to leave the life that I don’t know when I will be beaten to death... …Later I got married, and a year later I had Gavin, every home game day I went to the city stadium to watch the game, and I came here to drink and chat in my spare time, I like this kind of life very much.”

"Then why not continue?" Tang En persuaded.

"Because this kind of life has gone away from me. I like football very much. But what did I like football bring me in the end? I lost my favorite son!" Michael clutched the water glass hard, palm Rubbing against the glass made a creaking sound. "Fiona has always disliked me going to the stadium to watch football, and she even strongly objected to me taking Gavin there...but I was stubborn and even had a lot of fights with her because of it. Tony...I like football, support football, But it cost me my only child, and if I continue to stand my ground, I will lose my wife, my family..."

Tang En looked at this heartbroken man, he had absolutely no reason to persuade him to return to the stadium stands.

Bill Shankly, the founder of the Liverpool dynasty and the most famous head coach in the history of the club, once said:

"I've been told that football is a matter of life and death. To be honest, I deeply regret that, and what I'm saying is... football is more than life and death."

But now, can it still be said that "football is higher than life and death"?After the Hillsborough tragedy, Liverpool people have been doubting Shankly's famous quote and football philosophy, and now Twain is thinking about the same question.

Michael stood up and said to Tang En: "So I'm sorry, Tony... I can't watch your games anymore. Now you don't have to worry that if you can't play in the Super League, I will beat you up. Goodbye, I should go Yes. Good luck, Tony."

Tang En didn't keep him. Watching Michael disappear at the gate of the bar, he murmured: "I'm worried that you will beat me up? Just kidding, you can't beat me at all, Michael... But I really hope you can beat me once, I Promise not to fight back..."

(End of this chapter)