Andy McCann

As you said, I'd say even 10 years ago, definitely 15, 20.

That's the whole everyone's inside watching it, aren't they, rather than sitting outside.

Yeah, yeah.

78, so yeah, 11, yeah.

I remember I was at a kid's party on the day of it.

So my stepdad had gone to it and, unfortunately, he was all right and everything.

But we had gone to one of my mate's parties.

Right.

I can't remember where it was, but we were at this party and they had, you know, I've mentioned fucking grandstand twice already, but that was like one of my abiding memories of football growing up.

And they had, you know, grandstand on.

And I just remember like an air of...

panic and sadness fulfilling this like wherever we were and i just remember my mum coming and going we've got to go because because yeah her husband was there my stepdad it was like a dad to me to be fair so but she didn't tell me why she didn't say why so then i think i can't remember exactly but on the way home i've obviously said oh mom the semifinals and she just went oh yeah no no no she went and i said can we watch it when we get in

probably at half time or whatever.

And she was like, oh, no, no.

I think she probably said the telly's broke or whatever.

But I just remember not having any clue what had gone on, but just an air of panic.

And then eventually I think he'd come home later that night and he was... I don't remember really speaking to him about it, but I remember it just being a real weird atmosphere.

And he never really told me.

And then it was...

the sunday morning they told me about it um because we went down we went down the ground and it became obviously there's that famous picture now isn't the way it comes all the way almost to the halfway line with flowers and that but we ended up going twice in three or four days we went we were one of we were must have been one of the first thousand there or something because we got to