WHY DO FOOTBALL FANS BOYCOTT THE SUN NEWSPAPER? 

My Dad had his back crushed in Hillsborough as he had his feet up on the blue bars and knew if he removed them he would be dead. Because he decided he would rather live and return home to his wife and 4 young children, he is now disabled and constantly having to fight to receive any benefit because he is in no fit state to work anymore. He performed CPR on people , dragged bodies down steps and slapped a young officer who was in shock. He did not seek medical attention and his way of dealing with it was to try and forget it happened. I was only born in 1994 so I never knew my Dad before this but I have been told that he was never the same after it. Every time he heard YNWA playing he would change the channel. The first time he managed to listen to it was when he finally decided to attend one of the memorials at Anfield after almost 20 years. He still suffers badly with survivors guilt and PTSD and has admitted that some nights he would go to sleep hoping he would not wake up in the morning. I found out years later that he had helped pull out at least one of the Hicks girls and held one of their hands as they were dying (I'm not sure which one as I'm reluctant to bring it up with him). We were watching ITV News the day the truth was "revealed" and it showed a slideshow of pictures of the people who died and when the faces of the Hicks girls came on screen my Dad just slammed his fist and was very emotional. To this day I think it is the only time I have ever seen my Dad cry and this is a man who did not cry at the funeral of both his parents (he keeps it inside). If I had any association with the Sun, even just giving them an interview, I know my Dad would never speak to me again. I would not blame him either. My Dad also said he was offered compensation at the time by police or something and he turned them down saying he did not want their blood money. I'm proud of him.

Excellent work gents.

Goes to show - even with all the banter and animosity between rival fans - we can still band together in our mutual dislike of something truly awful :)

The S*n's story didn't even make sense, why would Liverpool fans try to stop police and paramedics from helping fellow Liverpool fans, it's like they were so focused on making us look bad they didn't even think it through

If the S*n printed the earth was round then I'd become a flat earther because just nothing they say is true

Total eclipse of the S*n

This was absolutely fantastic, well done Ball Street! JFT96

My dad was at Hillsborough he got lucky though because he wanted to sit down, which he never did, and swapped his ticket for a seated one.

A massive well done to all of those who helped put this video together. Justice for the 96.

It's a disgusting paper. Even the chips would taste crap if wrapped up in that rag

Seeing those guys taking the sun off the shelves in a shop and throwing them in the bin is fantastic. They did it knowing they could get arrested but did it anyway cos it's the right thing to do . Max respect

Great video guys. We, from LFC Mumbai, might not know any of the 96 angels in person, but feel as strongly about the injustice done to them and the families who suffered and are still suffering from what happened on 15 April 1989. The unity and the strength shown by the city is an inspiration, to all of us in India and all across the world, with our problems as well. JFT96. You'll Never Walk Alone.

The ten people who have disliked this video are exactly the sort of people who should watch this video. Isn’t about Liverpool FC, it’s about every one of us. Get your heads out of your arses, forget football rivalry and watch this. JFT96 Don’t Buy The S*n

Remembering the 96 May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face; the rains fall soft upon your fields and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand. YNWA

they sell that rag here in holland as well ! i think i,m going to start a dutch boycot and inform my football friends about that rag as well , JUSTICE FOR THE 96

Ped is brilliant! He’s aToffee but love listening to him. Great video. RIP the 96.

Thanks for that important documentary 😌

My mum had a small shop on the Warrington Road in the village of Rainhill (it is now a restaurant and art gallery). I was a survivor of Hillsborough (I was crushed, placed in the recovery position near the rear of the goal and at one point stamped on by a uniformed pig - I still have the clear imprint of the tread of sole of his boot on my body after 31 years). I am now severely disabled as a result of the crush injuries I received. I was taken into the gym at Hillsborough, I received no medical attention other than from fellow fans. I was still lying there at 11:47pm when 2 lads came in looking for their friend, one of them noticed that I was still breathing and asked why I hadn't been taken to the hospital, the uniformed cop told them that if I couldn't stand up then I was going to be left there to die (yes he actually told them that). Those lads pulled me to my feet took one arm each and said "she's standing, we're taking her". The cop tried to stop them but changed his mind when he saw my eyes were open and I was crying and managed to say that I wanted to go home (at least that is what he said later). Those lads took me all the way home on the train, no one asked for our tickets, and the conductor was really nice, he kept coming up to make sure I was ok. I managed to tell them where I lived and they carried me to my mum and dad. They explained as much as they could and my mum let them phone their families and then fed them and put them up for the night. Our lovely GP came out when my mum called him and said I should be in hospital as I had multiple crush injuries and broken ribs. I refused to go, I wanted to die at home and not in a hospital with strangers. A few days later my mum had gotten me a wheelchair from a lady we knew. The lady refused to let my mum pay for it. She didn't want me to be alone so she took me to the shop while she opened up and took in the deliveries (she usually opened about 5:30am - 7 days a week, 52 weeks of the year with only Christmas Day off - it was her own business and she was a hard worker). The scum paper was delivered and as soon as I saw the front page I screamed and couldn't stop crying. It was all lies. I told her that it was lies and she dumped the rag behind the counter and when people came in wanting a copy she said it hadn't been delivered. The following day she returned the entire delivery and refused to take the Scum and any of the so-called "news"papers from the same company. 3 days later she was told that until she "adjusted [her] attitude" she was blacklisted and would no longer get any newspaper or magazine deliveries. She was also told that she would have to write a letter to be published in the Scum apologising and saying that I was a liar and the Scum was telling the truth. My mum - all 4 foot 11 of her - shot round the counter, grabbed hold of the 2 suits that were making these demands and bodily through them out of the door telling them that if they ever came back she would do more that throw them out. Mrs Welsby, who owned the pie shop across the road came running over to see what was wrong and my mum told her. I loved Mrs Welsby and her husband. It was at this point that my mum asked me to show Mrs Welsby my back and I found out about the size 14 boot print over my ribs. My mum's little business was put at risk because she boycotted the Scum, that evening she removed the word "newsagent" from her shop and became just a sweet shop. She did well as people knew us and, it being a village, everyone heard about the blacklisting and my injuries. She was such a wonderful person that people would make a bee-line for the shop to get their goodies before getting the train to work. Every so often someone would come in and say "aren't you taking this too far, Marie". My mum would look at me and say to them "ask her". Strangely they never did. I adored my mum and sadly lost her this year (2020) ... she died on April 15th ... the anniversary of Hillsborough. I would like to thank Mike and Alan who saved my life that day by getting me up on my feet and then home, along with the person who tried to keep me up and stopped me from sinking below the crowd when my foot slipped off the terrace stepping and I was going under. The unknown people who got me out of the pen and on to the pitch and those who stretchered me to the gym thinking we would get help. Understand - if you were taken to the gym, unless someone got you to your feet you were left to die there. I wish the "eclipse the sun" guys had been around at the start when my mum was blacklisted for refusing to sell the scum paper - at least she wouldn't have felt that she was fighting the world all on her own. Please don't buy the scum paper, they have never properly apologised, and after their lies were proven their former editor kelvin muckraker mackenzie tried to say that he was the victim of hillsborough.

Don’t even like football, but I’m so glad I stumbled upon to this channel 2 years ago! Not just Sun. Daily Mail, Star all of them, disgrace to humanity! Love for Ball Street for this. RIP96

The Sun and the government for that fact totally underestimated the scousers. Every time I’ve been to Liverpool there’s something in the air that makes you realise your in a special place with deep deep history and traditions. Great city, great people. Fair play.

Best Ball street doc yet.

Class doc. Total eclipse of the S*n!!

Brilliant documentary

I use this little video so often way out here in Canada, and with mates in the US to explain this situation over and over again. Thank you!

Really well put together this. Great work

Great work Paul, and everyone at Ball Street

Ball Street thanks for using your vast platform. Things like this don't go amiss and I personally appreciate you for it. Justice for the 96!

Well done Ball Street. Education is the Key.

Massive support from holland , keep up the good work lads !

How any football journalist can work there is completely beyond me. If your a football fan and work in media you obviously know what happened all those years ago. And if you can still work for them after knowing that (and knowing that they're still the rag they were back then) then you should be ashamed imo.

From Cork Ireland huge Liverpool fan never ever do I buy the sun,a lot of mates here don't buy it either, Justice for the 96 YNWA

"Freedom of responsible press". Bullseye.

Thank you Ball St!! JFT96!

Some of the best content you've ever done, hopefully this will educate the few who don't yet get it.

Newcastle fan here....Great video and just finished reading ' Hillsborough Voices : The real story told by the people themselves'. Tremendous book which shows in intimate detail the lives destroyed by the cover up and the fight for Justice!! Never forgotten 96 !

Great documentary lads, great approach to the subject and very heart-felt #JFT96

Great and well worked documentary well done lads

That was a great documentary by Ball Street. Never ever buy that rag of a paper.

Well done ball street. Using ur platform to spread the word through this documentary is wonderful. Can’t praise u enough. #JFT96 #YNWA

Well done on the documentary lads. This would be very informative for people unaware of what went on years and years ago, and explains our stance on the Sun perfectly. JFT96 x

Absolutely brilliant documentary. Don't Buy The Sun.

Really learnt something here. Well done 👏

Liverpool: the only city on the planet to eclipse the sun. To everybody that also boycotts this rag, thank you!

I just stole a bundle of sun newspapers and threw them on the floor I spit on them everyday

Awesome vid guys. Keep up the good work. Peace to all ✌️

am from London thank you for the idea

Well done guys! Proud!!! 👍❤️

It is the most hateful paper. It’s a horrible paper. Should be a universal boycott.

Paul Collins , wherever you may be in 2022 know this , you nailed it with your interview albeit all those years ago BUT we will never forget. YNWA.

It's 2020 now and this documentary is just as relevant now as it was 2 years ago. Thank you for uploading it.

Great Documentary 💪🏽 Total Eclipse of the S*n

Still even now a disgrace and excuse for a "newspaper".They should never be forgiven. Remember the 96 😌

No matter which club you're supporting when it comes to FOOTBALL we, the fans, shall UNITE. #JFT 96

FANTASTIC WORK. This is one of the best things Ball Street has done. The s*n is a rag and has always been a dirty rag. All football fans should unite against those rotten bastards. #JFT96

Good work!

Those 2 guys from Liverpool 3mins in made a bit teary - God bless ya

Great, powerful stuff.

Well done ballstreet👏🏼the extra insight into what happened makes more sense now JFT96💙

Words can't describe how I felt when I read that headline on the Monday morning, thanks for informing people why we feel like that against that shite,.. Great video guys. A lifelong red since 1965.👍

How dare People put thumbs down for this. If you did then you should never have watched this. THUMBS up all the way. Won't be happy till it's out of this country.

Intriguing ! It is quite excellent ! I don't think it's so easy .

this was absolutely fantastic JFT96

Amazing doc!

Great video.. Brought tears into my eyes... love from Nepal... JFT96 GBNF YNWA!!!

Thank you fellas for doing what you do...Y.N.W.A🔥✊🔥

Thank you for this. I never read the Sun and have never bought it, but I never realised what depths they had gone to about Hillsborough. My heart goes out to the victims. It would be great to see the Sun close down.

I'm a man u supporter,at the time I didn't understand Hillsborough biut as soon as I understood the situation I stopped buying the sun.it brings a tear to my eyes to know how the sun lies with the disgusting stories of the fine Liverpool supporters.rest in peace my brothers

important documentry thank you

Excellent work, very useful for expats to help football fans globally understand why this is bigger than a Liverpool FC issue. Thank you!

Posted this to my FB.

Excellent stuff:)

Well done ball street, never forgotten. JF96, YNWA.

Quality lads

Great work Ball Street, even to call it an newspaper is an insult.

YNWA the 96, The people of Liverpool are doing you proud as they always have , A Liverpool fan all my life who's from Nottingham and stood regular on the kop in the 80s ...I still today try and educate today about the truth and how the sun lied and will do till the day I die.. ... Thank God we have the people of Liverpool they stand alone on any decency I'm so proud of the 96 and them .

Great work. Things like this will add to the inevitable eclipse of the s*n 👏

Great video

Any comment on Amber's performance in the Depp trial? The Sun has been rather quiet! 🤡🤡🤡

outstanding

I’m a Manchester Red. I’ve not bought The Sun since I was explained about it by a close friend who was an Everton fan. The world would be a better place if it was shut down. #YNWA - 96

Justice for the 96 🔥🔥

Once upon a time yea, the Sun was the worst paper, now, it's only as bad as any other paper. That's how bad things have gotten. And the bizarre thing is, in the Hillsborough days, most people couldn't have instant access to someone standing within 5 feet recording teh whole ordeal on a phone camera, so now there is even less reason to lie since it's so easy to call it out... But alas. All papers are shite. Only the sports pages [barely] are worth reading.

this needs more views people!!

With a Father, Uncles & Grandfathers all part of the union. I was educated in the early 80s to the evil of the Sun toilet paper. Great Documentary. We’ll Done Ball Street.

Fantastic video lads. I'll be sure to keep the link to this copied somewhere for the next person that asks why I have so much Venom for the S*n - it's amazing how many football fans, and especially fellow redmen are unaware of how abhorrent that rag is.

Kelvin MacKenzie has a lot to answer for..... and hasnt been held to account.... he was the one who okayed the printing of these lies.... I have never bought it since. But what an absolutely brilliant vid this is.... Well done guys.

I was buying the sun in my teens (in the early noughties) until I found out more detail about the disaster as a whole. Think it was in about 2008 or 2009 when more documentaries about were on TV and coincidentally loads of “money off” coupons for the sun were being posted out at the time. Since I found out about that article I have never bought or read the sun, even refused free offering of it at my local newsagent recently for that very reason. How disgusting can you get when so many people went to watch a football match and never came home. One is too many but this was 96!!! Plus all the others who were seriously traumatised from it, I would of been too. Clearly the South Yorkshire police should take responsibility for appointing a commander who nothing about football. I am so ashamed I’ve actually bought the sun newspaper a few times and feel very guilty, guess all I can do now is just not buy it. I am a Hull City fan living in North Yorkshire, but understand the compassion with football, especially during the recent Euro 2020 with England being so close. If ever there are further campaigns to eclipse the sun, I will support and take part.

If I ran out of toilet roll I'd rather walk around with a shitty arse than wipe it with the Sun.

If you are a Liverpool fan do not buy or read this sorry excuse of a newspaper

good to know documentary gg Ball Street

love "Dear Deidre" section doe

What a fantastic documentary

This newspaper should be banned. Period.

In Scotland last year there was a train derailment at Stonehaven near Aberdeen and 3 people died the driver of the train the conductor and a passenger and the next day the Sun main headline was “Death Express” hopefully Scotland will follow Liverpool and stop selling the Sun

Best video by Ball Street yet. #JFT96 #YNWA

Great Documetary

Continue....

Excellent product placement for Highland Spring there. Fantastic doc though, Evertonians will always stand united with the reds on this.

proud of u lads well done

Hello to all fellow 'REDS' 96 Liverpool Football Club fans lost their lives at a football match at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield 31 years-ago ... I wrote a tribute song in memory of all those that lost their lives on that awful Apri day entitled '96 Angels Dressed In Red' and later was invited to send a CD for each of the ninety-six families that had lost loved ones. Here, as the sad anniversary of that April day nears-once-again, are the lyrics of my song - Ninety-Six Angels in Heaven Dressed in Red. It was an ordinary Saturday, in nineteen eighty-nine They came to watch the Red-Men play, with quality-sublime They came by the thousand, to watch a football game But few-knew what-was-happening around the Leppings Lane! Twenty four thousand came that day, to see the ‘Reds’ But ninety-six did not go home that night to their-own beds A monumental tragedy occurred that April day And ninety-six new-angels came, through Heaven’s gates to stay Chorus Middle-Eight Ninety-six angels, in Heaven dressed-in-red Ninety-six new-angels there, cos’ somebody said “Open-up that Leppings Gate, we can’t hold them back for long” Somebody, one day must say, “We are sorry - we were wrong” Instrumental Break The years have flown and life goes on, and ‘time’ will always pass But we will not forget the ‘Reds’ laid on that Hillsboro’ grass We’ll honour and remember them, their each and every name Each one of them, who loved the ‘Reds’ who play the ‘beautiful’ game Now by the Anfield-Shankly-Gates, an Eternal-Flame burns bright It will burn for ever-more, throughout the day and night In memory-of, the ninety-six, gone to their Heavenly home Ninety-six red angels who sing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ Chorus Middle-Eight Repeated Somebody one day must say “We are sorry we were wrong” Written and sung by ‘Jed Ford’