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GIVE US JUSTICE FOR HEYSEL!

It’s a terrace shout too often aired just to score points but what are the facts of the matter? OLIVER KAY looks back at a tragedy that for decades was a taboo subject

NOW that the lies, the smears and cruel myths about the Hillsborough disaster have been exposed once and for all, those who clung to them out of warped tribalism have but one straw left to clutch. “What about justice for Heysel?”, they plead. “What about the truth of what happened there?”

Actually, they might have a point, even if they raise it out of malice rather than consideration for th...

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