Hillsborough-a tragedy that changed football

As Andy Burnham found out at Anfield this afternoon,there is still much hurt and grief over the events that took place at Hillsborough twenty years ago today.

I remember it well,listening to the events unfolding on what must have been Radio 2 whilst in the car.

I can't remember where I was going and what I was doing but the tragedy of the afternoon was to change football for ever.

I had fallen out of love with the game prior to those events.Attending football games had become akin to entering a war zone,the fun had simply gone.Society was changing and football hadn't kept up.

The Taylor report which followed the tragedy brought in the all seater stadium,the end of fences and barriers.It made the game or at least attending it more enjoyable.

Success on the field in Italia 90,the creation of the premier league and increased money coming into the game saw its rejuvenation.It has never looked back.

Yet those deaths of 96 people on that sunny afternoon were a high price to pay for change.

It has been a travesty that even today nobody has yet been brought to account.The action of chief Inspector Duckenfield who froze and gave the order to open the gates.

Supporters being pushed back in the stand by police who misunderstood what was happening.

Missing video tape and evidence that some of the dying were still alive 45 minutes after the incident.

The fact that South Yorkshire police still defend their actions to this day