‘ LAST NIGHT FOOTBALL FANS CAME TOGETHER ‘

<>< CARDIFF CITY STADIUM REMEMBERS THE ABERFAN DISASTER

By Steve Perry

Last night football fans from both S Wales and Yorkshire came together in a poignant silence to remember and reflect on the tragic events of fifty years ago at a school in Aberfan.

The silence was impeccably observed and thoughts turned to 144 lives cruelly cut short from coal slurry that tumbled down a hillside and engulfed Pantglas Junior School.

This should never have happened but balance sheets took precedence over safety and the the heartache of that October 21st 1966 day is still as raw and tearful as it was then. RIP dear ones.