Editing Heysel Stadium disaster (section)

== Match ==
It was decided that the match should eventually start for [[public policy doctrine]] reasons<ref name="Curino">{{cite news|author=Luciano Curino|date=30 May 1985|title=Tragedia allo stadio di Bruxelles|language=it|page=1|publisher=La Stampa|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,1003_01_1985_0111_0001_13892528/|url-status=live|access-date=10 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150507233740/http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,1/articleid,1003_01_1985_0111_0001_13892528|archive-date=7 May 2015}}</ref> because abandoning the match would have risked inciting further disturbances.<ref name="La Stampa"/> This decision was jointly made by UEFA officials, the [[Italian Football Federation|Italian]], [[The Football Association|English]] and [[Royal Belgian Football Association|Belgian]] national associations, the country's [[Federal Public Service Interior|Ministry of Interior]] led by [[Belgian Prime Minister|local Premier]] [[Wilfried Martens]], [[List of mayors of Brussels|Brussels Mayor]] [[Hervé Brouhon]], and the city's [[Federal Police (Belgium)|police force]], despite the scale of the disaster, the [[State of emergency#Graduation|state of siege]] in the [[City of Brussels]] consequently declared by the [[Federal Government of Belgium|Belgian government]]<ref name="Sconcerti"/> and Juventus expressed concerns about the match proceeding.<ref>{{cite news|author=Renato Proni|date=30 May 1985|title=La Juventus non voleva giocare|language=it|page=3|publisher=La Stampa|url=http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,3/articleid,1003_01_1985_0111_0031_13892986/|url-status=live|access-date=9 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402125159/http://www.archiviolastampa.it/component/option,com_lastampa/task,search/mod,libera/action,viewer/Itemid,3/page,3/articleid,1003_01_1985_0111_0031_13892986/|archive-date=2 April 2015}}</ref><ref name="Curino"/> After the captains of both sides spoke to the crowd and appealed for calm,<ref>{{harvtxt|Graham|1985|p=55}}</ref> the players took the field knowing that people had died. Years later, Liverpool captain [[Phil Neal]] said that in hindsight, it would have been "a better decision" to call off the game.<ref name="lfcstory" />

Juventus won the match 1–0 thanks to a penalty scored by [[Michel Platini|Platini]], which was awarded by the Swiss referee, Daina, for a foul against [[Zbigniew Boniek]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nie dla Bońka na stadionie Juventusu|url=http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1,65083,8536356,Nie_kibicow_dla_Bonka_na_stadionie_Juventusu.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303213858/http://www.sport.pl/pilka/1%2C65083%2C8536356%2CNie_kibicow_dla_Bonka_na_stadionie_Juventusu.html|archive-date=3 March 2016}}</ref>

At the end of the game, the [[European Champion Clubs' Cup|trophy]] was given in front of the stadium's Honor Stand by UEFA President [[Jacques Georges]] to Juventus Captain [[Gaetano Scirea]]. The chants of fans of both teams in the stands<ref>{{cite news|author=James Arangüera|date=7 June 1985<!--|access-date=21 March 2014-->|title=Um trófeu para ser esquecido|language=pt|page=29|publisher=[[Placar]]}}</ref> and the massive [[Pitch invasion|invasion of the pitch]] by journalists and fans at the end of the match generated the collective [[hysteria]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Reilly|first1=Thomas|year=1996|title=Science and Soccer|pages=316; 320|publisher=E & FN Spon|location=London|url=http://www.gethitch.com.au/csf/Soccer%20Coaching/36865462-Science-and-Soccer-Thomas-Reilly.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141106010508/http://www.gethitch.com.au/csf/Soccer%20Coaching/36865462-Science-and-Soccer-Thomas-Reilly.pdf|archive-date=6 November 2014|isbn=0-419-18880-0}}</ref> Some of the Italian club players celebrated the title in the middle of the pitch in front of their fans in the M section, and some of the Liverpool players applauded their fans between the X and Z sections.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Camerani|first1=Francesco|title=Le verità sull'Heysel. Cronaca di una strage annunciata|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2003|isbn=978-888-7-67623-5|pages=135–136|language=it}}</ref>

Liverpool players only realised the extent of the tragedy when they boarded their bus at a Brussels hotel to go to the airport, when a crowd of Juventus supporters surrounded the bus. Police had to escort the bus out of the lot.<ref name="lfcstory" /> The police allowed Liverpool's bus to drive directly onto the [[Airport apron|tarmac]] at [[Brussels Airport]] to prevent potential disturbances at the terminal.<ref name="Chalmers" />