Belgium bans UK football teams

Title

Belgium bans UK football teams

Genre

Interview

TX Date

Jun 1985

Year of production

1985

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Duration

00:05:28

Description

Two clips from the same interview with Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Part 1 about her visit to a hospice run by Dame Cicely Saunders to help the grievously ill. Part 2 on the ban by the Belgium government to all UK football clubs to the country following the Heysel Stadium disaster and possible involvement of National Front in organising the violence. Female interviewer not identified.

Contributors

Margaret Thatcher

Keywords

Deaths; Association football; Hooliganism; National Front; Riots; Belgium; Football grounds; Football stadiums; Sports stadium disasters; Liverpool Football Club; Terminal care; Hospices; Brussels; Juventus Football Club; Heysel Stadium disaster (1985); Cicely Saunders

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