Post-match
After the match, much discussion centred on the disaster that occurred before kick-off. UEFA was adamant that the Liverpool fans were responsible; UEFA official Gunter Schneider stated, "Only the English fans were responsible. Of that there is no doubt." British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher put pressure on the The Football Association to withdraw English clubs from European competition and two days later, UEFA banned English clubs for "an indeterminate period of time". On 6 June, FIFA extended the ban to worldwide matches, but this was modified a week later to exclude friendly matches and did not affect the English national team.
English clubs were banned indefinitely from European competition, with a condition that when the ban was lifted, Liverpool would serve an extra three-year ban. The ban eventually lasted for five years, clubs returning to European competition in the 1990–91 season. Liverpool returned to European competition a season later in the 1991–92 UEFA Cup.
Twenty years after the disaster, Liverpool and Juventus were drawn against each other in the quarter-finals of the 2004–05 UEFA Champions League, the first time the two clubs had faced each other since the disaster. To mark the occasion, before the first leg at Anfield, Liverpool fans held up placards to form a banner saying "Amicizia", which means friendship in Italian. The response from Juventus fans was mixed; a number of supporters applauded the gesture while others turned their backs to the banner. Liverpool won the tie 2–1 on aggregate, and went on to win the competition that season for the fifth time.
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