The little Baptist church where they had both been regulars was packed, including 50 students who'd come down on a coach from Liverpool University that morning.
There were so many people that they had to stand in side rooms where the girls used to go to Sunday school, and even outside.
He wanted to do what he enjoyed. If we had a meeting, Michael would be the last one in the room. Those are the little traits that I imagine Patrick Vieira and senior players at Premier League level would not put up with that so much.'
I've always had this feeling - even now - that I should have insisted a doctor was brought to see Sarah.
She should not have been as warm as she was, especially as it was now after nine o'clock at night - more than six hours after the horrific events at the game had unfolded.
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We talked about the lies that were circulating in some sections of the media, suggesting that drunken, loutish Liverpool fans without tickets had turned up late to the Hillsborough game and pushed their way in, contributing to the fatal crush - lies that had blackened the names of our children and the other victims who died or were injured that day.
Michael Olise's parents had taken a wrong turn. By the time they arrived at their son's game, with Michael in the back of the car, it was half-time and Hayes Youth were 2-0 down. When it was finished, Hayes had won and Michael had scored a hat-trick.
Olise's coach at Hayes Under 7s, Michael Richards, has a few of these stories.
Like the one when he was stood next to a Tottenham scout the day Olise cushioned an opposition goalkeeper's kick to the halfway line with his right thigh, volleyed it with his left foot, and sent it soaring back over the keeper's head into the net.
At our local chapel of rest, the undertaker's wife dressed Sarah and Vicki in their favourite clothes. I couldn't wait to welcome them home from their terrible ordeal and to have them back with me, in their own surroundings again.
Olise, now lighting up the wing at Crystal Palace, joined Hayes Youth at the age of six after his parents, Vincent and Mina, responded to an advert in the local paper, the Hayes Gazette, looking for young players to form a new team.
‘I think he's found the balance now, of carrying that ability and that confidence while also understanding that you still have to work hard and be dedicated to your training and your profession. He's got that balance perfect now, and that's why we're seeing the player that we are witnessing now every week for Crystal Palace.'
In the first extract from her heart-breaking new book, Jenni Hicks recounted in yesterday's Daily Mail how her two teenage daughters were crushed to death at Hillsborough.
Here, in the second instalment of our three-part serialisation, she describes the aftermath and her anger at officialdom's callous behaviour.
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