Friday Flashback: When AC Milan sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone” after a minute of silence to honour Liverpool
Friday Flashback: When AC Milan sang “You’ll Never Walk Alone” after a minute of silence to honour Liverpool
By Eric Beard
Yesterday was the 21st anniversary of the Hillsborough tragedy, and I really started thinking about what that really meant for football. Well, I found a video that pretty much sums it up. Modern football tells us that Liverpool and AC Milan don’t exactly like each other, especially after two (relatively) recent Champions League finals. But let’s go back to the dawn of the new decade that would be the awesome 90’s, when AC Milan were the first ones to embrace and support their fellow European superpower.
AC Milan fans, just days following the disaster, printed off song sheets with the words to You’ll Never Walk Alone and handed them out amongst their support with a plea to learn them for the next home game against Real Madrid, only 4 days after the disaster. A gesture was planned to stop the game at 3.06pm (the time of the game being stopped at Hillsborough) and hold a minute-long silence. The squad was also full of class acts, such as Ruud Gullit, Marco van Basten, Frank Rijkaard, Paolo Maldini, and Carlo Ancelotti, who are all AFR Legends. For me, this shows how football can bring the best out of people even in the worst situations, doesn’t it?
