When you look back there were so many signposts to a tragedy.
My grandad went to Hillsborough to watch Spurs play a couple of years before.
He came back and said "I'm never going there again - it's a disaster waiting to happen". There had been some similar issues of overcrowding but the response was different - they got people out of the pens and sat them on the ground round the edge of the pitch. He said then, why on earth doesn't someone do something? And was staggered that they continued to use the ground for these big matches.
My uncle went to the '89 game as a Forest fan. He said it looked like crowd trouble for all of five minutes - and he didn't have a good view. After that, it was clear it was a tragedy happening. He has always said the police, at least those sitting in the viewing boxes above, must have known, right from the outset, if he, sitting a way away with dodgy eyesight, knew.
My sister and I are a few years younger than the two Hicks girls, Sarah and Victoria, who died. We also grew up attending football matches (not Liverpool though!). The first few years of matches I attended were when it was standing room only on the terraces by the pitch, so the story of the Hick's girls could so easily have been ours. I first came across their story when I was about 15 - the same age as the younger girl when she died. Since then, I have never attended a match without thinking of them - two girls, who set off so excited, just like we did every other week, but who never came home.
I heard their Dad being interviewed a few years ago - he found both girls, side by side on the pitch, the ambulance came and he went in it with his younger daughter, believing another would be along for his older girl. It never came as no more ambulances were allowed on to the pitch. I hope he finally gets some justice, along with the other families.