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1989 U.K. Soccer Disaster Still Stirs Emotions

by Tom Goldman, NPR
May 15, 2009

Steven Cohen, a sports radio host in Los Angeles, has touched the third rail of British soccer fandom. Recently he insinuated Liverpool fans may have been partially to blame for the 1989 Hillsborough disaster in which 96 people were killed. That's brought him death threats from all over and boycotts from sponsors.

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