Brussels stadium to meet wrecking ball 30 years after night that lives in infamy.
Forever tainted by the deaths of 39 football fans 30-years ago this week, there is movement afoot to demolish the old Heysel stadium altogether and build a brand new one nearby.
Back in May 1985 as Liverpool took on Juventus in Brussels in the European Cup final, the now renamed Roi Baudouin stadium hosted what had been billed beforehand as the final of the Century.
But a deadly cocktail of bad policing, the jaw-dropping violence, and a stadium in a bad state of disrepair led to a legacy of infamy.
Panic spread when fans were unable to escape a terrifying wave of assaults by hooligans due to locked security barriers.
Now 30-years on the subsequent deadly crush is still remembered in Belgium as one of its darkest hours.
Thirty-four Italians, two Belgians, two Frenchmen and an Irishman died, some 458 fans were injured and treated on site, and another 256 taken to hospital.
The hooligans had caused a crush but the policing played its part while it is widely accepted now that Heysel itself has to shoulder much of the blame.
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