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The 96

Stephen Snape

Friday, April 17th, 2009

1 Leave a comment on verse 1 0 Twenty years gone by no justice done
after that terrible day in South Yorkshire sun
we went in hope and levity
to see our team play old Cloughie

2 Leave a comment on verse 2 0 but Leppings Lane was not the same
as Duckenfield’s men ignored the strain
they pushed us through without a thought
and couldn’t envisage the carnage they wrought

3 Leave a comment on verse 3 0 at 3.06 the match was stopped
but the agony had just started for the traveling Kop
we gasped for breath and pushed and shoved
we fought for our lives and the ones we loved

4 Leave a comment on verse 4 0 we screamed at the police “for Gods sake help”
as all around the small ones yelped
but no help came in that fateful crush
just Bruce Grobbelar with a futile rush

5 Leave a comment on verse 5 0 at 3.15 so the coroner said
we’ll write them off
they’re already dead

6 Leave a comment on verse 6 0 the medics stuck outside the stands
with oxygen, medicine and helping hands
one ambulance got in, what could it do
by now the bodies were turning blue

7 Leave a comment on verse 7 0 then the bodies of the dead were given to the state
the parents couldn’t see them, they made them wait
as policed realized the gravity of their mistake
they changed their statements and robbed their tapes

8 Leave a comment on verse 8 0 a blunder of the highest magnitude so Taylor said
not one prosecution and 96 dead
hearing after hearing and excuses by the score
we demand they hear our voices
for the families we want more

9 Leave a comment on verse 9 0 we’ll never stop demanding justice
we’ll scream until we’re heard
that fateful day in 89
please Duckenfield… a word

Notes

from a witness to the horrors of Hillsborough
R.I P THE 96
YNWA

Source: http://footballpoets.org/poems/the-96/