Opened in 1884, Anfield was originally home to Liverpool’s city rivals Everton, who moved out in 1891. A year later, newly-formed Liverpool started to play there. “We never got allowed to get carried away,” Gillespie says, identifying the camaraderie formed оn boozy nights out as one of the reasons for the club’s success. The end-of-season title-decider was still to come. “It was all fairly understated,” Gibbons, a contributor to the Anfield Wrap podcast, tells CNN. He had also taken charge of the team shortly after 39 Juventus fans had died before the Italian club’s European Cup final against Liverpool in the Belgian city of Brussels. As a Liverpool player, Dalglish had won three European Cups, five league titles and four League Cups and added three more league titles and two FA Cups, including a league and cup double, as player-manager. In a recent documentary about the man regarded as Liverpool’s greatest player, his family talked of the impact Hillsborough had օn him: sleepless nights, mood swings, a rash covering his body, the struggle to make simple decisions. Players had watched the injured and dying being carried away օn advertising hoardings used as emergency stretchers and, in the weeks that followed, provided solace for the grieving.
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