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Hillsborough: How Liverpool and Nottingham Forest fans found common ground in tragedy

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Diane Lynn sat in terror-stricken disbelief on the side of the pitch when a rival fan offered her a cup of tea.

On a famously sunny spring afternoon in 1989 Lynn, then 22, and her 17-year-old brother had been pulled from a crush of bodies at the Leppings Lane end of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield.

The crush would ultimately result in the death of 97 of their fellow Liverpool fans.

Lynn and her brother had been in one of the two central pens where the tragedy unfolded.

"I knew I was dying," Lynn says.

But she survived, climbing across into a different part of the Leppings Lane terrace in a blur, before finding herself on the pitch in front of the adjacent South Stand.