Luzhniki disaster by "Izvestia" on 20 July. Some controversy in the media coverage of the Luzhniki football disaster is not unique. In 1989, three months before the "dark secret" article in "Sovetsky Sport", "The Sun" newspaper published a sensational article in the UK about the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 people lost their lives. That article also contained strong allegations and cited unnamed sources. The sensational versions of the Luzhniki disaster proved to be much more popular with the media than the facts provided by the investigation. Despite its refutation in 1989, the figure of 340 fatalities or its variations ("more than
John Smith (chairman of Liverpool FC) of shirt sponsorship in British football in the early 1980s. As well as overseeing Liverpool's glories of the 1970s and 1980s, he also oversaw the Hillsborough disaster in April 1989, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans at an FA Cup semi-final tie. John married Doris Mabell Parfitt in 1946, and remained married to her until his death in 1995. Smith was knighted in 1989 "for services to sport". John Smith (chairman of Liverpool FC) Sir John Wilson Smith (6 November 1920 – 31 January 1995) was the former chairman of Liverpool F.C. from 1973 to 1990. John Smith