Ok, was tongue in cheek but in bad taste i'll give you that. However, It's no coincidence that a tragedy where people should be 100% behind Liverpool, has divided opinion. I think the Heysel mass murder had a lot to answer for. Also, there are only 96 guaranteed innocents in this situation. It's easy to jump on the bandwagon in a city, otherwise you'll be lynched for voicing different opinions. Does this mean they are correct?
Heysel has nothing to do it with it. People bought into it because of the cover up. Fair enough. Back then the police lied, The Sun lied, the politicians all lied to save their arses. People believed them in 1989, why would the police lie about such a thing? Spurs fans who had been to Hillsborough in 81, like myself, felt a bit uneasy about it, but the police wouldn't lie about something like this would they?
You only have to look at the scale of the cover up to know the fans were innocent otherwise why else do it to that extent?
The problem is Liverpool as a city would not let it go. Yes it led to the victim-pool stuff and everything else. Yes they have played the victim card on other issues since. But because people get bored, people outside Liverpool got fed up with it. Fed up with the minute's silences etc etc mainly because they thought the fans were to blame I guess.
Now it has come out that that was wrong I think those who were happy to blame Liverpool because they hate the club/city so much cannot bring themselves to admit they were wrong. It's not their fault. Believing the lies and cover up is no sin, that's what they were supposed to do.
However, now it's out in the open there is no excuse. If people are still interested and want to blame Liverpool then they need to read the report to stop themselves looking so ignorant. If you're not interested, don't blame anyone and say nothing on the topic.
I read the report yesterday and that made me re-register on this board because I was so embarrassed with where this thread was going. It is deeply, deeply shameful.
