Ninety-seven fans were unlawfully killed as a result of the disaster that occurred at the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest on April 15, 1989.<\/p>\n
In remembrance, the head coaches and captains of the Reds\u2019 men\u2019s, women\u2019s, U21s and U18s teams visited the Hillsborough Memorial at Anfield to lay wreaths.<\/p>\n
So too did club officials, including CEO Billy Hogan, Sir Kenny Dalglish and ambassadors Ian Rush and Natasha Dowie.<\/p>\n
Members of Liverpool\u2019s men\u2019s squad and coaching staff also paid their respects at the Hillsborough Memorial at the AXA Training Centre.<\/p>\n
Flags were flown at half-mast at club sites and tributes took place elsewhere across the city.<\/p>\n
At 3.06pm, the time at which the match in 1989 was halted, the club observed a period of silence in honour of the 97.<\/p>\n
Ninety-seven biodegradable balloons were subsequently released from the centre-circle at Anfield in a poignant act of remembrance.<\/p>\n
The Anfield retail store closed at 1pm, while the LFC Museum and stadium tours ceased operations at the same time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ninety-seven fans were unlawfully killed as a result of the disaster that occurred at the FA Cup semi-final…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":532711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[607,608,49,596,603,598,609,611,610,134,602,601,597,606,50,599,604,600,51,47,52,48,605],"class_list":["post-532710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-headlines","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-news","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=532710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/532710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/532711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=532710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=532710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=532710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}