Hillsborough disaster

Tony Smith from Toxteth was one of the injured stretchered on the advertising hoardings at the Hillsborough disatser in 1989.

He suffered broken ribs, a broken arm, badly bruised legs and repeatedly passed out as he was rescued.

People with him at one point said 'He's gone'. He later woke up in the gymnasium with someone cutting his clothes off.

"All I remember was being dragged out... I was screaming 'I can't breathe, I can't breathe' and I just couldn't move nothing.

"I remember being on the pitch and I went again and they put me on an advertsising board... I must've blacked out again and I didn't come round until I was in the gymnasium where they were putting the dead bodies and the injured."

After the disaster at a support group for survivors of Hillsborough Tony saw video footage of himself being hoisted out of the crush at 15:24, ten minutes after the coroners cut off point.

While he was talking to Roger a man rang in whose abiding memory of that day is Tony, lying on that advertising board.

The two had never met and the caller had believed that Tony was one of those who died.

Click the link below to listen to the interview in full.