http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live/2016/apr/26/hillsborough-disaster-inquest-jury-returns-verdict-live-updates

This confirms what most of us already knew but finally the 96 have been exonerated. They were just ordinary people like you or me. No one should go to a football game and lose their life. I remember that day clearly. Those TV images will stay with me forever. The system failed these fans, it's not about blame, it's about justice and finally the football community and most importantly the families have their justice. We'll move on now but we'll never forget. 

I wouldn't really call it justice myself but the truth has prevailed.

Personally, I find it completely sad that it's been allowed to drag on without the families involved being able to receive any sort of closure - I mean even now, there won't be much of that but at least they will know the truth. It's about time the information had been made public knowledge, regarding what exactly happened that day and hopefully these stupid documentaries which exist labelling it as 'hooliganism' will start to disappear from being able to be seen/watched.

A fantastic day for the families of the 96 and for football supporters everywhere. Well done to the coroner, the jury, the lawyers and particulalry the families who never gave up.

Justice will happen when the CPS prosecute those responsible.

Now let's have a proper Hillsbrough style inquest into:

Valley Parade 1985

Heysel 1985

Burnden Park 1946

Ibrox 1971 and all the other matches where innocent law-abiding fans were killed or seriously injured.

horrible to see something like this drag on, hope the families get some closure and find peace from the outcome.

@ivansneck is right, prosecutions need to be made.

Its a good day for football and those who's lives were effected by this.

About time!

This should have been properly investigated at the start but at least there is closure now. The truth is out there.

 

No one should ever leave their home to never return, I hope this brings some form of closure to those effected by this tragic event

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I remember it very well.......I was there, watching dead bodies getting stacked in the Forest end......disbelief, shock.....I also believed the "lies" we were fed for years about Liverpool fans "forcing the gates"

My worry is....if the Police could cover this up for 25+ years.....what else have they covered up?

I'm delighted that the families and everyone involved have got some sort of closure. The process has, of course, focused on the police. But what about the role played by the media and the FA?

The FA Cup semi-final should never have been played at that ground. And this isn't a case of being wise after the event: there were incidents before at the same end of the same ground, one involving Wolves fans in 1981, who were forced to escape onto the pitch. Hillsborough even failed its safety certificate, but was STILL selected as an FA Cup semi-final venue by the FA in consecutive years. The FA bear a large part of the responsibility for this tragedy.

So why were Wolves fans able to escape to safety in 1981 while Liverpool fans were beaten back and ambulances turned away? The media had been all too happy to paint a ridiculous and offensive caricature of Liverpudlians in particular. Anyone who stood up to the government at that time was vilified and smeared in the media, anyone involved in the miners' strike knows that very well. Liverpool had a very active trade union movement (the government had in the past even sent in tanks to break up strikes there) and in the years preceding Hillsborough elected - by a landslide - a radical Labour council that stood up to the government and refused to implement cuts. Instead of examining the decline of the city's industry, the media's response was to paint the city's people as crazies in an attempt to isolate them. That, alongside the general vilfication of football fans as lawless beasts and hooligans at the time, may well have explained some of the police's behaviour on that terrible day.

It's a sick irony of history that News International, the owner of the Sun and Sky TV that was at the forefront of slandering football fans back then, now has such a stranglehold on the game. Rupert Murdoch will never earn a single penny from me as long as I live.

I notice The Times didn't even mention Hillsborough on its front page this morning - sickening. I know its tabloid equivalent didn't either but I expected that.