UNFORGOTTEN : BRADFORD CITY FIRE

Very moving.

 

Well done Tony , kind of you, I still struggle to watch anything as yet.

 

Watched the last one today, a very well produced documentary series that doesn't leave a dry eye in the house. A lasting tribute to those lost and still affected to this day.

 

A thing that surprised me was that Neil Redfearn was a local lad. I thought he was from Barnsley, the club we signed him from in the premiership years.
Also, I didn't know that he was playing for Lincoln on the day of the fire.

 

I watched the TV production this evening, further to my time away. Real difficult watch and for those affected, my love to each and all

 

Still haven't watched the documentary yet although I feel I will at some point and also avoided this thread up until now.

What I will say though is a thank you to the vast majority of posters in the thread that have respectfully discussed the programme and it's contents and helped me make it more clear in my mind whether to give it a watch or not.

 

I’m still avoiding, as it were , both versions however I am going to have to bury my demons at some stage Dave .

It’s odd because nothing much in life bothers me but this is on a different level.

 

I would have been off the assumption that flares/smoke bombs etc were treated as fireworks and therefore the same firework rules would be applied. I wouldn't let my kids run wild with a box of fireworks and on the same basis I wouldn't be handing them flares or smoke bombs.

 

The amount of kids under 10 holding up those smoke bombs at the promotion parade in City square was incredible. Many on their parents shoulders too.

I mean, each to their own but it can't be particularly safe.

 

At the memorial service I was within earshot of a guy that said he was celebrating after the match on north parade and the person next to him was waving a flare in the air. The guy telling the tale said he got burns to the side of the head and noticed afterwards that his city shirt had partially melted....just putting this out there.

 

Very much the same prior to the last game at Goodison Park, the amount of dad's with children on their shoulders was shocking especially as it was confined to a very narrow area of Goodison Road even the police wore face masks.

 

Just seen this on The T&A website about a student doing a long term project about recording peoples memories about that day.

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/25236121.university-bradfords-1985-stadium-fire-memory-project/

Not sure if anyone on here would be interested but thought I would put it here for those that don't read the T&A. It does look like it is a long term commitment over a couple of years rather than just a one off meeting