On April 15 1989 over 25,000 Liverpool fans travelled to Hillsborough to support their team in the FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest. Ninety six of them never returned.

This song commemorates
this months 20th anniversary of the disaster

The Fields of Anfield Road is a popular football song sung by supporters of Liverpool Football Club. It proceeds to the tune of The Fields of Athenry; composed by singer-songwriter Pete St. John in 1979. Before being adapted by Liverpool supporters it was, and still is, sung in its original form by supporters of GAA teams, Irish rugby union team Munster, Leinster Rugby, the Ireland football and rugby union team, English rugby union team London Irish, and Scottish football team Celtic. The song was adapted in 2009 to include a third verse commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Hillsborough Disaster. John Power from Cast and the La's fame co-wrote the final verse and vocal contributions were made by Phil Thompson and Bruce Grobbelaar amongst others.[2]The song reached No. 16 in the UK Top 40 chart on the 12th, April 2009. The song was also at No. 9 on the UK iTunes chart as of April 13th.