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Liverpool and fans
In 2009 FourFourTwo named Dalglish as the greatest striker in post-war British football, and in 2006 he topped a Liverpool fans ' poll of " 100 Players Who Shook the Kop ".
However, a poor series of results at the start of the 2010 – 11 season led to Liverpool fans calling for Dalglish's return as manager as early as October 2010,
The first was the Heysel Stadium disaster in 1985 in which charging Liverpool fans caused a wall to collapse, killing 39 Juventus supporters.
Before kick-off, Liverpool fans breached a fence which separated the two groups of supporters, and charged the Juventus fans.
Fourteen Liverpool fans received convictions for involuntary manslaughter.
Liverpool's success was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster: in an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on 15 April 1989, hundreds of Liverpool fans were crushed against perimeter fencing.
Liverpool fans often refer to themselves as Kopites, a reference to the fans who once stood, and now sit, on the Kop at Anfield.
Liverpool, to play matches for fans who had been priced out of watching Premier League football.
They were confined to a corner by Liverpool fans who had charged in their direction ; the weight of the cornered fans caused a wall to collapse.
In 1989, after a five-month trial in Belgium, 14 Liverpool fans were given three-year sentences for involuntary manslaughter ; half of the terms were suspended.
Ninety-six Liverpool fans died as a consequence of overcrowding at the Leppings Lane end, in what became known as the Hillsborough disaster.
In the following days The Sun newspaper published an article entitled " The Truth ", in which it claimed that Liverpool fans had robbed and urinated on the dead and had attacked the police.
Subsequent investigations proved the allegations false, leading to a boycott of the newspaper by Liverpool fans across the city and elsewhere ; many still refuse to buy The Sun more than 20 years later.
The Heysel Stadium disaster occurred on 29 May 1985 when escaping fans were pressed against a wall in the Heysel Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, before the start of the 1985 European Cup Final between Juventus of Italy and Liverpool of England.
Approximately one hour before the Juventus-Liverpool final was due to kick off, a large group of Liverpool fans breached a fence separating them from a " neutral area " which contained Juventus fans.
The tragedy resulted in all English football clubs being placed under an indefinite ban by UEFA from all European competitions ( lifted in 1990 – 91 ), with Liverpool being excluded for an additional year and fourteen Liverpool fans found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and each sentenced to three years ' imprisonment.
Trouble occurred at the previous season's European Cup final, with several Liverpool fans being attacked by fans of Roma both before and after the match.
Liverpool players and fans later said that they were shocked at the abject conditions of the ground, despite reports from Arsenal fans that the stadium was a " dump " when the Gunners played there a few years earlier.

Liverpool and featured
Because of its successful history, Liverpool is often featured when football is depicted in British culture and has appeared in a number of media firsts.
The club was featured in a children's television show called Scully ; the plot revolved around a young boy, Francis Scully, who tried to gain a trial match with Liverpool.
The show featured prominent Liverpool players of the time such as Kenny Dalglish.
The record received good reviews, and the video for " Liverpool " featured Leonard Nimoy, which helped to generate further publicity.
The advertisement featured two young boys in Liverpool replica shirts and made reference to Accrington Stanley's obscurity in comparison to Liverpool's success at the time.
Under their management, Motherwell improved to fourth in the table and had a highly regarded team which featured players such as Willie Pettigrew, Bobby Watson and former Liverpool player, Bobby Graham.
His Durham Concerto, commissioned by Durham University for its 175th anniversary celebrations, received its world premiere on 20 October 2007 in Durham Cathedral by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and featured soloists Lord on Hammond Organ, Kathryn Tickell on Northumbrian pipes, Matthew Barley on cello and Ruth Palmer on violin.
He featured in the FA Cup Final on 12 May 2001, starting ahead of Robbie Fowler, which Liverpool won 2 – 1 against Arsenal.
Fowler featured rarely in his final Liverpool season, making only six league starts.
*" Cranked Up Really High " featured on the limited edition three disc box-set version of North By North West: Liverpool & Manchester from Punk to Post-Punk & Beyond 1976-1984 ( 2006: Korova )
Redknapp's first goal for Liverpool came in his league debut on 7 December 1991 when he featured as a 63rd minute substitute for Jan Mølby in a 1 – 1 draw with Southampton at the Dell.
He featured in 13 scoreless league matches ( all as a substitute ), and was transferred to Liverpool in January 2005 for a fee of € 9. 3 million.
While the first section, " Sources ," includes older poets such as Robert Graves, John Betjeman and Dylan Thomas, the second section " New Voices " not only includes Seamus Heaney but also Liverpool poets Adrian Henri, Roger McGough and Brian Patten who at the time were not accepted by mainstream critics ( although they were featured in the best-selling The Mersey Sound anthology from 1967 ).
Despite falling out of favour in the Liverpool line-up, he maintained his place in the England team and featured in both Euro 88 and the 1990 World Cup.
The 1999 film The Matrix featured a major chase scene in the labyrinth of pedestrian tunnels found within the station near the Elizabeth and Liverpool street entrance.
He featured in every FA Cup game as the team made its way to the final against Liverpool, keeping seven clean sheets in 27 appearances.
They were featured in a 1967 book The Liverpool Scene edited by Edward Lucie-Smith, with a blurb by Ginsberg and published by Donald Carroll.
Liverpool DJ John Peel, who was then working on the pirate radio station Radio London, picked up on the LP and featured it on his influential late-night Perfumed Garden show.
After Radio London closed down, Peel visited Liverpool and met the band ; as a consequence, they were featured in session on his BBC Top Gear and Night Ride shows, and in 1968 he produced their first LP.
More recently the building has featured in the Stop the Rot conservation campaign by the Liverpool Echo newspaper.
He featured in Sunderland's early seven match unbeaten run, which included games against Manchester City F. C., Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester United.
Originally they had set off from Tittenhurst Park, his country home near Ascot in his Mini Cooper, however it soon became apparent that it was too small to drive all the way to Scotland in, so they stayed overnight at his relatives in Liverpool where he rang Apple Records and arranged their driver to bring the " staff " car, a recently acquired Snowberry White Austin Maxi with full length white webasto roof, it also featured a silver apple mounted on the radio speaker top of the front facia.
As well as regularly appearing in many fanzines they were also often featured in the mainstream music papers with favourable reviews in Melody Maker, Sounds and NME, also featuring on several occasions in the Sounds Obscurist chart and Psychedelic chart and were favourites of pirate radio stations " Liverpool City radio " and " Andromeda ".
Despite not having featured for months Diao was present in Istanbul when Liverpool won the Champions League in 2005.

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