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by **mottman** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 12:27 am

The Hillsborough Justice Campaign Shop is now located at 178 Walton Breck Road, opposite the Albert pub. For the Everton home game to be played on Saturday 31st January (kick-off 15.00) the shop will be open from 12.00 until 5 minutes before kick-off. The shop will also be open for around ½ an hour after the game.

Everyone is welcome to call in and talk to members of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign team and meet fellow Reds. Please make the HJC shop your rendezvous point for meeting your friends before and after any Liverpool home game. Everyone will be made very welcome.

The Hillsborough Justice Campaign shop opens its doors to everyone - whoever you are, wherever you’re from, all are welcome. Upstairs, there is a large meeting room at the front. On match day, everyone is welcome to sit and have a chat with members of the team. The meeting room includes a kitchen area, with facilities for making hot drinks. Lavatory facilities are also available.

Regular updates concerning HJC merchandise, fundraising events, poems and supporters thoughts on the Hillsborough tragedy are available free of charge from the shop.

There are many items on-site for you to purchase - books, badges, and a variety of T-shirts, posters and many other items. All monies raised will go towards the Campaign for Justice and for the upkeep of the shop. There are many pictures on the shop walls relating to Hillsborough and Liverpool FC in general. These extend into a walkway at the rear of the shop. At the rear of the shop, plans are in place to erect a garden of remembrance.

Here are some of the items that are available:-
Badge - Yellow original £2.00
Badge - Red eternal flame £2.00
Badge - Don’t buy the Sxn £2.00 *NEW*
Key ring eternal flame £4.00 *NEW*
Scarf £4.00 *NEW*
Lighter £1.00
Words of Tribute (original) £1.50
Mugs £5.00 *NEW*
Scum T-shirts £8.00
T-shirt - 96 £6.00
T-shirt - Liverbird / Houllier £12.00*NEW*
Anne Williams book £10.00 *sold out*
Polo shirts £14.00
T-shirt - black £7.00
Partizan Media T-shirts (various) £15.00*NEW*
Book - Pete Evo - One Boy & His Kop £10.00
Book - Pete Evo - My Youth, My Kop £10.00
Book - Jim Dempsey - 3 Cups For The Kop £3.00
Book - George Sephton - This Is Anfield Calling £3.00
Fanzine - RAOTL £ 2.00
Photos - players £1.50
Kenny Dalglish t-shirt £12.00 *NEW*
Alan Kennedy t-shirt £12.00 *NEW*
Pay Kennedy t-shirt £12.00 *NEW*
Elisha Scott t-shirt £12.00 *NEW*
Billy Liddell t-shirt £12.00 *NEW*

Copies of Mark Platt’s superb book detailing Liverpool’s European Cup exploits in 1977 are also available, these are priced at £ 12.00. As well as being available direct from the shop, the books can be purchased through Paypal via John_mac@blueyonder.co.uk please add £1.00 for postage and packing.

The Greatest European Story Ever Told
Finally after many months of work an epic piece of Liverpool writing is complete. The Greatest European Story Ever Told (GESET) stands at over 100 pages and covers every match the Reds have played in Europe since our first game against KR Reykjavik in August 1964. It tells the stories of the ties and interweaves many humorous fan recollections regarding their adventures away from home. It also includes some of the songs inspired by and sung on those trips. A small taster is included at the end of this article.

WARNING: Some of the stories contain colorful language which may not be suitable for children

If you would like to download a copy from the GESET website in one of FIVE formats, priced at £3.01. To download the story you need a username and password and the website address which can be obtained by e-mailing:

lfcineurope@aol.com

Mottman@hotmail.com

antonyphoenix@skynet.be
(putting GESET in the subject field)

The full download details will be forwarded when commitment to pay is received. The story is available in the following formats:

WPS (771Kb) DOC (438Kb) PDF (480Kb) RTF (393Kb) TXT (361Kb)

You can either pay by cheque or postal order made payable to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (see below for details).

If paying by this method please leave a comment in the message section saying your donation is for the GESET Story. A senior citizen, student and unemployed discount of £1.00 will apply. Please forward your full name, e-mail address and age to one of the above email addresses to qualify for the discount. In the interest of raising as much as possible I would kindly ask that you do not forward the story to third parties.

The idea of this project is to boost HJC funds by as much as possible. If you don’t want the story yourself please feel free to email these details to any Liverpool supporters you think may be interested (young or old).

There is a new HJC T-shirt available for £12.00, please add £1.00 for post and packing. It is a cream t-shirt with a wonderful image of Ray Kennedy, the image contains a small image of the Justice flag encircled in the words Hillsborough Justice Campaign. All proceeds from the sales of this shirt will go direct to Ray Kennedy.

The new HJC mug is now available, It is a bone china mug, with two gold hoops and the HJC eternal flame motif. The mug is priced at £5.00 we estimate postage and packing to be around £1.00 per mug (this may be subject to some fluctuation depending if you are UK based or based abroad, please add £1.75 if based overseas).

The HJC website is constantly being updated, please visit it regularly to find out the latest news concerning the fight for JUSTICE and other related matters. www.contrast.org/hillsborough

Where to send donations / orders too:

You can order and make payment by Paypal to: john_mac@blueyonder.co.uk

Please leave a message in the section provided to say what items you require (and sizes – colours etc, if applicable).

You can either pay by cheque or postal order made payable to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign (Don’t forget to mention which size you require) and send to:

John McCormick, 16 Acton Road, Kirkby, Liverpool, L32 0TT

Robbie Ashcroft, 48 Marina Crescent, Netherton, Bootle, Merseyside, L30 1RR

Hillsborough Justice Campaign
P O Box 1089
178 Walton Breck Road
Liverpool
L69 4WR

If paying by cheque or postal order, please allow 10-14 days for delivery, please ensure that you make them payable to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign.

Used postage stamps required - a message from Neil Dixon, HJC supporter.

I am trying to collect as many used postage stamps as possible for the ileostomy
Association, they can exchange these (by weight) for credit to there charity. I am doing quite well so far but I would like to do very well as they have been very good to my wife. Can I ask all you people out there (specially) office people to have a look and see if you have any lying around as if you have I would really appreciate them to add to my charity collection.

If you do want to send any, then please send them to:

Neil Dixon
LINC
Edge Hill
L39 4PQ

Thank you.

Irish HJC Cup Tournament - 2004

The IHJC Cup for 2004 will be taking place in the Astropark in Tallaght on March 6th. Commencing at 12:00. The Astropark is on the Greenhills Road near to Xtravision.

It will have the same format as last year. There will two groups of 5 teams. Each game is 10 mins in length. First and Second of each group will qualify for the semi-finals and obviously the winners meet in the final. Last years winners, the infamous Brown Rings, will be back in an attempt to reclaim their title. Medical representation is guaranteed of those who will need it.

Each time will have to have a minimum of 5 players on their team and a maximum of 7. Cost per man is EUR40. Now that may seem a lot but please bear with me and you will see that not only is this fee for an extremely worthy cause but you will receive other goodies for your 'hard earned' cash.

For your EUR 40 you will receive your entry for the football tournie but also a HJC badge and a raffle ticket for some excellent prizes. Samples of some of last years prizes are, Sign Michael Owen photos, Cup Final Programmes, Match Programmes, Pot of Jam, a Barbie, Tights, FA Cup Final Photos and much more. Most of all you will contributing to very worthy cause and get to meet fellow reds on the day and have one or two beers in the evening.

There will be sandwich’s served to those in need of sustaining and beer served to those in need of forgetting their woeful efforts on the pitch.

Please contact Jason at jason.cauldwell@jacobs.com for further details. Deadline for team submissions is Friday 6th Feb.

Last year, Anne Williams; mother of Kevin Williams, Gary Burn; Hillsborough Survivor and Sheila Coleman; legal expert, all attended what was an excellent time. They have said they'll attend this years event also - we'll keep you posted.

Anyone fancy a game for a LFC team at the Everton Academy this Saturday morning?

This will be the fifth 11 a side game in a series against our Blue cousins, everybody who turns up will have an opportunity to get a game - Unfortunately it’s bring your own kit.

Kick off is 10:30am on Derby day against the Young Boys of Toffeeweb (YBOTWFC) at the Everton Academy at Dunningsbridge Road / Park Lane, Bootle. – So there's plenty of time to get to the pub after this game. The Young Boys of Toffeeweb have confirmed availability of squad, supporter’s etc.

This is a fundraising event with a 50/50 split between the Hillsborough Justice Campaign and The Blue Blood Foundation (A charitable organisation to assist ex-Everton players who don’t have the financial assistance that today’s players have).

e-mail Andy on andyheaton1892@hotmail.com

This is a first come first served and all that for places, please try your best to support this charity event. Car parking facilities are available on site.

Thank you.

by Kevin Mahon – Liverpool V Leicester 2003 - I just had to put on record my feelings following my visit to Anfield on Saturday.

I went with my two sons and the wife but we could only get two tickets for the game. I insisted the boys used them with the self-sacrifice only a father would understand. They are, after all, the future heartbeat of the club. We saw the boys to the turnstiles and bade them a goodbye and wished them a good game and then my wife and I spent some time walking slowly around the ground. (I was soaking up the atmosphere while she wondered just when her shopping trip would start)

We visited the Hillsborough Memorial and, as usual it was bedecked with scarves and mementos of fans paying their respects. There were several bunches of flowers and accompanying cards. We read them as we paused in front of the red marbled edifice for a time. One was particularly moving.

It commemorated the birthday of one of the boys who had died that awful day in Sheffield. It was a birthday card from his mother. It simply read:"You would have been 32 this week. How I love and miss you still.Happy Birthday, my beautiful Son." Beside the card were two laminated photographs clipped together defiantly keeping out the autumnal drizzle. One was of a baby and the other of a fresh faced young man of approximately eighteen summers. They were of the same man and boy who had lost his life following his passion in the support of Liverpool Football Club.

We had just said goodbye to our beautiful sons (one aged 18 and the other 14) and saw them off into a football match. They were excited and full of anticipation. We were left behind, happy for them, pleased that they had had an opportunity to attend the game and looked forward to seeing them again soon after the match when we would be regaled with their accounts of the experience. In that moment of reading the card written by a grieving mother, of listening to the roar of an excited crowd inside the ground and of waving goodbye to the flowers of our youth, we both felt the same leaden heartbeat of the mother who had lost her son.

We were deeply moved and clung to each other in a reassuring embrace. While we took some deep breaths and stepped back from the shrine, I looked with fresh eyes at the activity around the monument. Many Leicester fans paused respectfully and read the array of names. They were joined by Liverpool supporters and a hushed conversation sprang up between them, made comrades by the terrible event etched into the marble. Other fans wearing red who had obviously paid homage on numerous occasions rushed past but not without a revered nod of appreciation. Several made a point of touching the cold marble slab in passing rather like the players used to do so religiously of the "This is Anfield" sign in the tunnel.

We had drunk deeply at the well of human emotion. A well whose waters encompassed so many conflicting emotions of fear, love, tenderness, grief, compassion, respect and the surge of feeling part of something important in the lives of so many. It is a bitter-sweet concoction. How sweet it is to have had so many loved ones in our midst; we must always value what we have, and how bitter to have lost them so wantonly at the capricious decision to open those doors at the Leppings Lane end.

As far as we can accompany those left behind and grieving, I hope that they do feel that they will never walk alone. It's the only assurance we can give to that mother left with the warmth of her memories of her beautiful son. God bless you.

by **mottman** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 6:58 pm

LFC v Toffeeweb game switched to Liverpool Academy in Kirkby.

still a 10:30am kick off tomorrow morning.

by **sunburntred** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:31 pm

Mottman :- Do you just need used English postage stamps or will foreign ones do as well ? I could get hold of some foreign ones and send them off to Edge Hill.

by **mottman** » Sat Jan 31, 2004 11:12 am

Any stamps at all will help?

Cheers

Robbie

by **mottman** » Mon Feb 02, 2004 12:33 am

Thank you to everyone who called into the shop yesterday, incredible shop takings yet again.
Special thanks also to the many Evertonians who called in and made donations and asked for updates etc.

An Irish Evertonian is going to try and see if he can enter a team in the IHJC.

Most moving thing I saw was a few Evertonians buying the Red eternal flame badges and putting them right away onto their Royal Blue tops.

How can words describe that?

Big thanks to Phil for ALL his help.

96 Candles still burn bright.

Justice for the 96

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