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I was an engineer involved in transmitting
a live football match from Sheffield when thousands of supporters became trapped in the stadium. Anyone to do with footy and most other people will know about the incident. Being there and witnessing it was definitively traumatic. One of the crew fainted, another vomited and two just ran out of the box as the pictures came through accompanied by horrific screaming.
When the transmission started the director didn't know whether to just cut it but he thought that, although horrendous, he couldn't afford to miss something so important. In the end he decided to broadcast the footage in silence and I received the instruction in my phones, "The Hillsborough Live, cut the sound off, too sick."
( , Wed 5 Mar 2014, 12:49, 8 replies)
a live football match from Sheffield when thousands of supporters became trapped in the stadium. Anyone to do with footy and most other people will know about the incident. Being there and witnessing it was definitively traumatic. One of the crew fainted, another vomited and two just ran out of the box as the pictures came through accompanied by horrific screaming.
When the transmission started the director didn't know whether to just cut it but he thought that, although horrendous, he couldn't afford to miss something so important. In the end he decided to broadcast the footage in silence and I received the instruction in my phones, "The Hillsborough Live, cut the sound off, too sick."
( , Wed 5 Mar 2014, 12:49, 8 replies)
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