Facing disaster - the Forest fans at Hillsborough

Nottingham Forest fans occupied the Spion Kop, opposite the Leppings Lane end where the lethal crush occurred on 15 April 1989

"We collapsed near Nottingham Forest fans and they were offering us cups of tea and coffee from their flasks," Lynn tells BBC Sounds podcast"I'd love to know who they were. They kind of helped us; they calmed us down. My brother - I've never seen someone is such shock. He was so pale, he couldn't speak and I still don't know what he saw because we have never spoken about it.

"It felt like a real relief to be recognised and the responses to that from Forest fans were quite overwhelming." The image of police forming a cordon on the halfway line, and a Liverpool fan in '80s rocker' attire - long hair, beard, ripped jeans and leather jacket - barging through the line and running toward the Forest fans in despair, is among the scenes seared in his mind.

"The match was on Saturday and on Monday I was back at school and got on with it. My parents must have asked if I was OK, but I don't remember discussing it in much detail." On the day itself, Forest fans, only 100 yards away at the opposite end of the pitch, struggled to fathom the gravity of the situation.

A number of those people on makeshift stretchers were brought over and laid out in the penalty area in front of the Forest supporters. Clough, who had guided Forest to an English title and two European Cup triumphs, repeated infamous and inaccurate claims that Liverpool fans were to blame for what happened."It caused a lot of resentment and probably an assumption in Liverpool that everyone in Nottingham feels like that," says Hillier.

She now works in a prison and the sight of people behind fences has caused flashbacks. She has been stricken by panic attacks in crowds. On her first trip to Anfield to attend a HSA meeting she says she was "petrified". Afterwards it was as if she had "found a new family"."I said, 'I'm Amanda and I'm a Forest supporter and was at Hillsborough'. And one person turned to me and said, 'you are a survivor - you are one of us'.

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