Hillborough - 20 years on
15/04/09 13:05 Filed in: Personal
It’s crept up on all of us who remember this particular day, 20 years ago. Perhaps sooner than any of us would like to reflect upon. Of course, at the time we were unaware of everything that transpired until the following Monday, when we all heard the news in person.
Carl Brown was a nice guy who happened to love Liverpool football club and computers in equal measure. Carl and I studied a City and Guilds 418 Programming Course at Leigh College, in Leigh Lancashire. It was his local higher education site and for me it was the only local college that covered the extra computer courses I wanted to cover. So we ended up studying on Marshall Street at the same time. I’m not staking claims to being Carl’s best friend, he had many others. But I did like Carl and I think we got on fine.
Carl wasn’t to complete his computer course though. Because on this day 20 years ago Carl died, aged just 18, at Hillsborough supporting the team he loved so much. I don’t think anybody who remembers that day or the subsequent service at Leigh Parish Church. Partly because it was so packed and I guess partly because of the Vicars use of two very inappropriate and misguided phrases.
Something that I am reflecting most upon right now is the fact that I’ve subsequently lived more years since that day than Carl had in his entire life.
Carl Brown was a nice guy who happened to love Liverpool football club and computers in equal measure. Carl and I studied a City and Guilds 418 Programming Course at Leigh College, in Leigh Lancashire. It was his local higher education site and for me it was the only local college that covered the extra computer courses I wanted to cover. So we ended up studying on Marshall Street at the same time. I’m not staking claims to being Carl’s best friend, he had many others. But I did like Carl and I think we got on fine.
Carl wasn’t to complete his computer course though. Because on this day 20 years ago Carl died, aged just 18, at Hillsborough supporting the team he loved so much. I don’t think anybody who remembers that day or the subsequent service at Leigh Parish Church. Partly because it was so packed and I guess partly because of the Vicars use of two very inappropriate and misguided phrases.
Something that I am reflecting most upon right now is the fact that I’ve subsequently lived more years since that day than Carl had in his entire life.
