Good grief, how many times? It was NOT the fans fault. The fans behaved in a perfectly predictable manner, and part of the police's remit WAS to prevent precisely the type of crushing that happened. It was an utterly predictable disaster that has happened at stadiums around the world, and the police made a number of mistakes that contributed to the scale of loss of life. It was a failure of crowd management by the police, but rather than own up to these human mistakes there was decades of cover-up and smear. End of.
@@riverrun339 Is that an attempt at justifying Heysel ? Remember Heysel ? It seems to have been completely erased from your history . Never seen a memorial at the ground . I apologise if I'm wrong .
@Scruffy Sandra u learnt how Britain had a fabulous empire across the world but not how they slaughtered millions to get that empire. Most haven't a clue about the atrocities and genocide their ancestors have committed and theyre proud about it
People around the UK still today look at us as thieving, uneducated vermin. Harry Enfield, The Sun, Thatcher. We were on our knees begging for support after Hillsborough and large parts of the country kicked us back down because of newspaper headlines and stereotypical media pigeon-holing. A tory MP called us out for wallowing in self-pity. A comedian told us to "get over it already." We do not want to feel this bitterness and I find myself trying to trust in this editor, but the wounds have become permanent scars. I'm very proud to be a Liverpudlian, and although we're far from perfect, we're known for our sympathy and our loyalty. A lot of students live here after their courses have ended, and the diverse range of nationalities across the City speaks volumes about the warmth of the locals. The best thing The Sun can do is stay away.
That's an interesting point about Harry Enfield, and I can kind of see that possible side of it, of looking down on Liverpudlians, but really I do think it was just a general Mickey-take like he did about Geordies, The Cockney Slobs, the flashy Loadsamoney, Stavros,, but also the Posh Twits, the Old Guys , etc...he really was just taking the Mickey out of everybody I think. But the Sun and Thatcher were absolute C U nts.
If the Sun was truly sorry why didn't they apologise at the time? Why did they reemploy MacKenzie in 2006 to keep bashing and goading the City of Liverpool and their fans.
The Sun should have been shut down in disgrace (just like its Sister publication News Of The World) after that disgusting headline during the Hillsborough families' hour of need. No amount of apologising can undo the damage done to towns and cities across the country where people support football. If they insisted on publishing the claims by Police Federation in South Yorkshire, they should have been more cautious, using language like, "The Claim", showing the supposed recallections of the police that day and balance it with what actually happened that day
Yes Tom they shuddered so much they shook the front page template from the headline virtually every single other newspaper did onto David Cameron's "Group Text Scandal"...
How much cash has the Sun given back to Liverpool's victims. Should the Sun give up its front page for every day that others lives have been ruined? Yes, I do mean every day.
The Sun newspaper should be punished for primarily spreading the lies that lasted for 27 years. The senior officers who were involved in overseeing the fans safety at Hillsborough that awful day in 1989 should stand trail for perverting the course of justice and they should be in the dock for gross negligence that lead to the deaths of 96 people who were at Hillsborough going to watch an FA Cup Semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Aside from perpetuating the lies for 27 years, the police mismanaged the turnstiles at the end of the ground where Liverpool were allocated, not enough turnstiles were in use, far too few police were deployed outside the ground and when Chief Superintendent David Duckinfield ordered Exit Gate C to be opened, he didn't close off the tunnel to the central pens as a precaution, even though he had a clear view that central pens were already full to capacity. He then had the cheek, when it became clear that people were dying in the central pens, to blame the fans for own failures. As the man who had overall responsibility, he should have the biggest prison term of all. Putting it simply, having 96 people die in your care is one thing, but for South Yorkshire Police to allow their senior officers to allow justice to not be served, those senior officers should face lengthy jail terms. It won't bring back those who died that day, nothing will, but they will face their consequences for what they did
The man printed the truth as he saw it ( frankly I still think it broadly correct ) but it was not a slander of the Dead they were the innocent people who turned up on time, sober and with tickets and were pushed to their death's by the later arriving drunken Liverpool fans
