Book contents
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- 1 Maidstone 1987
- 2 Anfield 1906
- 3 Chester 1946
- 4 Huddersfield 1959
- 5 London 1965
- 6 Liverpool 1974
- 7 Rome 1977
- 8 Toxteth 1981
- 9 Brussels 1985
- 10 Sheffield 1989
- 11 Scunthorpe 1994
- 12 Istanbul 2005
- 13 London 2010
- 14 Paris 2022
- 15 Parkdale 2024
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Works Cited
- Index
9 - Brussels 1985
If This Is Football, Let It Die
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2025
Book contents
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Dreams and Songs to Sing
- Copyright page
- Contents
- 1 Maidstone 1987
- 2 Anfield 1906
- 3 Chester 1946
- 4 Huddersfield 1959
- 5 London 1965
- 6 Liverpool 1974
- 7 Rome 1977
- 8 Toxteth 1981
- 9 Brussels 1985
- 10 Sheffield 1989
- 11 Scunthorpe 1994
- 12 Istanbul 2005
- 13 London 2010
- 14 Paris 2022
- 15 Parkdale 2024
- Notes
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Works Cited
- Index
Summary
This chapter tackles the complex social history of the darkest moment in LFC history, the Heysel disaster. It examines Heysel as a disaster in its own right, rather than as a foreshadowing of Hillsborough. Moving beyond tired narratives about the ‘English disease’ of hooliganism, it focuses on how the disaster was experienced, understood, remembered, and perhaps most often forgotten, in the LFC family.
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- Dreams and Songs to SingA People's History of Liverpool FC from Shankly to Klopp, pp. 166 - 184Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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