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Heysel Stadium Disaster, 1985 and Hillsborough Disaster, 1989
For the 80s decade, we have chosen two sporting disasters as they were of very similar nature: both involving football, Liverpool and infrastructural errors. While the Heysel Stadium disaster took place in Brussels just before the start of the European Cup final featuring Juventus and Liverpool, the Hillsborough disaster occurred in Sheffield during the FA Cup semi-final match between Nottingham Forest and Liverpool.
The Heysel Stadium disaster was a result of the boorish Liverpool fans attacking the Juventus fans which led to a stampede and a wall collapse, killing 39 spectators and injuring 600 others, and the Hillsborough disaster was a mixed result of the incompetence of the police and emergency services as well as the standing terraces that were much prevalent then, leading to the death of 96 spectators and the injury of 766 more.
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