"I felt a sense of responsibility for what happened," began Aldridge, who was leading the line for Liverpool that day. Brothers and sisters who died together on the Leppings Lane terrace. "Looking at it now in hindsight, that FA Cup final should not have been played," says Sharp. "After everything that happened at Hillsborough, to play a final six weeks later doesn't seem right now. Yet that was nothing compared to what it was like for the Liverpool players who had been to funerals of the victims, seen how it had affected the families and were sharing their grief in many ways.

Source: Irish Independent April 15, 2020 07:07 UTC