The Heysel disaster is a particularly dark day in the history of football and British football in particular. Without wishing to delve into the complicated matter of who was to blame for the 39 deaths, it led to the banning of English teams from Europe for five years and it is understandably a sensitive issue among English and Italian fans alike.
Today, on the 30th anniversary of the disaster various media outlets have published articles on the nature of the tragedy at Heysel and why it is not talked about as much as perhaps it should be.
One article along these lines came from the BBC. Entitled 'Heysel disaster: English football's forgotten tragedy?', it is a very interesting look at the intricacies of what happened in Brussels 30 years ago. However, there was a slight problem with how BBC publicised the article.
To be fair, anyone can make a mistake, and that's exactly what it was, an innocent mistake, but what an unfortunate mistake to make.
As you'll probably have noticed, the tweet contains a couple of inaccuracies following the headline 'Has Heysel disaster become football's forgotten tragedy'. 39 people lost their lives at Heysel, not 56 and it wasn't a fire, it was a crush and subsequent collapse of a wall that caused the most damage.
It seems a simple mix-up with the Bradford City fire must have occurred but the nature of what the tweet was meant to say makes it very unfortunate indeed.
