On 29 May 1985, 39 people went to a European Cup final in Brussels and never came home. Four days later English clubs were banned from Europe for five years — six for Liverpool.
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THE LOWDOWN — THE FULL HISTORY
On 29 May 1985, 39 people went to a European Cup final in Brussels and never came home — 32 of them Italian, the youngest, Andrea Casula, 11 years old, who died beside his father. Four days later, English clubs were banned from Europe: five seasons, six for Liverpool, after an era in which England had won 7 of 8 European Cups. This film is about what was lost — most of all the 39, and also a generation of English football: Everton's double champions who never played a European Cup match, the clubs whose only European nights never came, a league squeezed to two places when it returned. The Champions League begins again next week. This is the history it carries.
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