Martin Haar looks back on the Luzhniki disaster 40 years after Spartak-Haarlem: ‘We have covered it up’

The highlight in the club history of HFC Haarlem was the blackest page for Spartak Moscow. Exactly 40 years ago in a UEFA Cup match between the two clubs, at least 66, but probably many more, Russians were killed in the Luzhniki disaster, long concealed by the Soviets. “It wasn’t until the reunion that we really realized what the hell we’ve been through there.”

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