Its pretty well documented that there are plenty of things I dont like about Liverpool. I dont like the fact that their striker is an unapologetic racist. I dont like their tendency to return to themselves almost exclusively as Liverpool Football Club. I dont like that theyve won the European Cup more times than United. One thing that should never be mocked, however, is Hillsborough. 25 years ago today, 96 people, many of them children, went to a football match and never came home. It could have been fans of any club at the time, such was the dreadful state of British football grounds. A combination of The Sun and Thatchers government managed to produce one of the biggest cover-ups seen in this country since the war. It is more than just a sports story when the powers that be can demonise the working class to the extent that they can, literally, get away with murder. The brilliant Peter Jones was commentating at Hillsborough and many felt he never fully recovered from what he saw, dying less than a year later. His final report from that day is one of the finest pieces of broadcasting youre ever likely to here. Bill Shankly, the greatest figure in Liverpools history, once famously declared: Footballs not a matter of life and death... its much more important than that. He was wrong. youtube/watch?v=ieVUJZJbeiM
Posted on: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 07:40:57 +0000
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