Over 22,000 gathered to mark the 27th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in a moving final memorial service at Anfield.
Families of the 96 football fans who were killed before the 1989 FA Cup semi-final were joined by manager Jurgen Klopp and the current Liverpool first team.
Klopp’s predecessor Brendan Rodgers also attended to remember those who perished in Sheffield, as did Everton’s Roberto Martinez and England boss Roy Hodgson.
[huge_it_slider id=”6″]
Liverpool legends Kevin Keegan, Alan Hansen and Mark Lawrenson were among those who congregated on The Kop, alongside Kenny Dalglish, the club’s manager at the time of the tragedy, who delivered a reading alongside ex-Everton striker Graeme Sharp while Joe Anderson, the Mayor of Liverpool, also spoke.
A minute’s silence was held across Merseyside at 3.06pm – the time the game was stopped on that fateful day – while a series of city-wide commemorations also took place.
Chair of the Hillsborough Family Support Group Margaret Aspinall, who revealed in January that this year’s service would be the last that the group would hold at the stadium, said that the group owed those who attended ‘a great, great debt”.