Hillsborough

[Pablo]

I can't stand him and it was a really, really stupid comparison to make, but I don't think he meant any ill will by it. Am I wrong?

[Yozza]

He really is a ****ing muppet

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30740207

Ched Evans: Gordon Taylor sorry for Hillsborough comparison

Gordon Taylor has apologised after comparing the Hillsborough tragedy to the Ched Evans rape case.

"The last thing I intended to do was to upset anybody connected to the Hillsborough case," the Professional Footballers' Association chief said.

Taylor, who made his original comments in an interview with the BBC on Thursday, added: "Ched Evans is a totally different case, but he has the same belief of his innocence."

After years of fighting by the families of those who died, new inquests into the deaths began last year and are continuing in Warrington.

Taylor drew comparisons between the Hillsborough tragedy and the Evans case when he told BBC Radio 5 Live on Thursday that the footballer "would not be the first person or persons to have been found guilty and maintained their innocence and then been proved right".

Taylor added: "If we are talking about things in football, we know what happened, what was alleged to have happened at Hillsborough.

"It's now unravelling and we are finding it was very different to how it was portrayed at the time, indeed by the police at the time."

Phil Scraton, a Hillsborough expert and adviser to the bereaved families, called Taylor's comments "crass, insensitive and inappropriate".

Author of the Hillsborough Families Support Group submission to the Home Secretary in 2009 that called for a full review of the case, he also demanded that Taylor apologise.

"This is a really difficult time for the families and survivors," added Scraton in an interview with Radio 4's Today programme. "They are having to go to court every single day and sit through the longest inquests in British legal history.

"We all know how sensitive this is and in that context for somebody in his position to make such an error of judgement is of profound concern."

During Friday's apology on BBC Radio Merseyside, Taylor said he had "long been a supporter" of the Hillsborough families.

He apologised if his comments had given the wrong impression, adding: "I know the people involved and I will be very happy to ring them and let them know that."
Taylor also insisted he had no plans to step down from the position he has held at the PFA for more than 30 years.

[Phil]

Kenny is up today

[ChesterDave]

Have the club responded, where did the story come from?

The story yesterday was infuriating - the police officer apologising for 'misleading' the inquest.

Misleading by making a absolutely false statement. Not just false but one that could not possibly have been true.

[kingfunk]

****ing outrageous.....

@SheilaColeman96: @LFC can you confirm that Dave Wooding (Sun editor) was in the Directors Box at Anfield last night? Happy to rt reply if untrue. #DBTS#jft96

[baitman]

It's sickening reading, though good in a way obviously thats it's all coming out. Astonishing how little care there was about peoples lives and the length's theyve gone to to try and cover it up. But they picked on the wrong City and are hopefully going to pay the price. Every cunt involved thats still alive needs jailing and the FA need disbanding.

shameful. these bellends need jailing. hiding behind the police, fa, swfc, press, etc, is no immunity from justice and prosecution. heads must roll.

[Gingawaria]

Hillsborough: Insp Sykes has said he was wrong to tell Taylor Inquiry 2,000 Liverpool fans had no tickets. "I don't know why I said that."

[Chris]

Check out David Conn's timeline from today. Scroll down and read up.


https://twitter.com/david_conn

It's sickening reading, though good in a way obviously thats it's all coming out. Astonishing how little care there was about peoples lives and the length's theyve gone to to try and cover it up. But they picked on the wrong City and are hopefully going to pay the price. Every cunt involved thats still alive needs jailing and the FA need disbanding.

[G]

"Up to 1989, I'm going to put it bluntly, we got away with it"

[G]

The revelations today are unreal. We all knew it but now its getting said on the record by a senior police inspector. Justice is coming.

[Shaggy]

Check out David Conn's timeline from today. Scroll down and read up.

https://twitter.com/david_conn

[ChesterDave]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-29445291

A senior police officer has told an inquest a "substantial minority" of fans "had had too much to drink" ahead of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster.

Pete Weatherby QC said footage shot outside the stadium showed "no obvious drink-fuelled behaviour".

However, Mr Marshall, the most senior South Yorkshire Police officer to give evidence at the inquests so far, said a "substantial minority" had drunk too much.

"People weren't lying on the floor totally incapacitated," he said.

"People, quite rightly, had a drink or two, but I can tell you that some people had had a little bit too much, and the fact that they had had too much coloured their judgement."

Mr Weatherby said: "You are picking up an obvious fact from a leisure event of that nature that people will have a drink and are using that to shift the blame onto the fans."

Mr Marshall replied: "No, I'm not doing that."

The retired officer said he was "surprised" by some media coverage of his first day's evidence which he claimed suggested he was blaming fans.

But he said: "If you want my honest opinion, I think that some of the fans, not all the fans, some of the fans have a responsibility for what occurred and for the situation that arose under my command outside."

Mr Weatherby then asked: "Had the terrible tragedy not occurred, you would have gone home that evening without thinking twice about the level of drinking, wouldn't you?"

Mr Marshall said: "Probably, yes."

~~~

In summary:

"The drunk fans were to blame. I'm not saying they were at fault. But they were to blame because they were drunk. But if nothing happened that day I wouldn't have thought the fans were too drunk."

Former superintendent and current superweasel Roger Marshall.

[rodo]

[Yozza]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-27882680

Hillsborough: Civil servant sacked for Wikipedia slurs

A civil servant who posted offensive comments about the Hillsborough disaster on Wikipedia while at work has been sacked.

The man, believed to be Merseyside-based, used the website to mock the victims of the 1989 Liverpool v Nottingham Forest FA Cup semi-final.

An inquiry was launched in April when it emerged Whitehall computers were used to make the disparaging comments.

The edits included the phrase "Blame Liverpool fans".

The 24-year-old junior administrator, who was born in London but is based in Liverpool, has been fired for gross misconduct.

He altered the Wikipedia page for Hillsborough in 2012. One entry parodied the Liverpool fans' anthem "You'll Never Walk Alone" by changing it to "You'll Never Walk Again".

The BBC understands the Cabinet Office is likely to drop its probe into other abusive edits made to the online encyclopaedia from the secure government intranet, owing to a lack of leads.

The department described the posts as "sickening" but had feared the length of time since the edits, which were made in 2009 and 2012, would make it difficult to identify those responsible.

Cabinet Office Minister Francis Maude is expected to make a statement in the House of Commons later about the investigation.

[Leyton388]

Anyone seen todays front page? Cheeky *******s have put Stevie on it.