- King Diamond - Digging Graves
You know that people have a morbid curiosity about murder. And they’re going to line up for blocks to see a show in which one of the actresses has been murdered by the real-life maniac in the plot!
Stage Fright (1987) dir. Michele Soavi
On this day, 27 March 1997, England and Liverpool football player Robbie Fowler was fined for showing support for sacked dockworkers during a European Cup Winners’ Cup match.
Dockers in Liverpool had been engaged in a mammoth dispute against the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company which began in 1995 when all of the workers were sacked for refusing to cross a picket line set up by dockers for Torside Ltd who had been dismissed in a separate dispute.
Fowler, after scoring his second goal in Liverpool’s 3-0 victory, lifted up his shirt to display a T-shirt reading “Support the 500 sacked dockers”. He was fined 2,000 Swiss francs ($1,400) by the European football governing body UEFA.
The dockers’ dispute ended with a redundancy settlement in 1998.
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