On 15th April 1989 Liverpool supporters came to Hillsborough Stadium to watch their team play Nottingham Forest in an F.A. Cup semi Final, tragically on that fateful day 96 of them lost their lives.
It is sad that it took a disaster of this scale to make the authorities take account of the way that football is viewed and as a result of the Taylor report into the events of the tragedy football supporters are no longer treated as second class citizens in the manner that they used to be.
Many feel that no one has been properly held to account for the tragic loss of life and for those involved this is something that they will rightly continue to pursue.
For those of us not directly involved - football fans across the world that were touched by the disaster- today should be about remembering the 96 people who lost their lives in going to see something they loved.
At 3.06 today anyone who attends football matches or has family or friends that do so, spare a thought for those that never returned that day and the families that were affected as a result and with this in mind the minutes silence that will be held before Saturday's game with Southampton should, as has always been the case at Hillsborough, be observed impeccably.
Our deepest sympathies go out to all that we affected by the Hillsborough disaster, gone but not forgotten.