Hillsborough

[timmokay]

I'd recommend everyone reads this, no matter how difficult it is.

Harrowing indeed, I can't think of anything else to say, my words would be empty compared to that.

YNWA

[Liverpool]

good to see Sunderland fans do something ive found them to be very hostile towards us

[Shaggy]

FORMER LIVERPOOL MANAGER Rafael Benitez has said that the revelations from the report of the Hillsborough Independent Panel yesterday allows the victims’ families and survivors to continue their fight for justice.

The panel yesterday released a report on the scrutinising of around 450,000 documents pertaining to the 1989 stadium disaster which killed 96 Liverpool fans disclosing an inadequate emergency response, a police cover-up and an “unsustainable” inquest verdict.

As families now plot their next move which is likely to include a campaign for a new inquest into the death of their loved one as well as criminal prosecutions, Benitez has said the developments yesterday were “important for everyone”.

The Champions League-winning boss donated £96,000 to the Hillsborough Family Support Group in June 2010 shortly after he left Liverpool and has also continued to go to memorial ceremonies commemorating the disaster’s anniversary.

“When you sign as a Liverpool Football Club manager you know the history and then after you meet the people and then you have the relationship with the families. So we were supporting the families all the time,” he told TheJournal.ie in Dublin today.

“Now to go to this point that the truth has come through, I think it was really important for everyone. I think that they will continue fighting but it will be in another way.

“You see you have something that you were looking for for years in this case and now it will be a different. At least they can they can fight in another direction.”

Benitez - who is in Dublin to promote his new book, Champions League Dreams, and is giving a talk at the Bord Gais Energy Theatre tonight – said that the spirit of the survivors and the families of Hillsborough victims acted as an important inspiration.

“I met Margaret Aspinall (HFSG chairwoman) two days ago because I knew it could be quite emotional on the day,” he said.

“We were talking about this and you can see the spirit that they have and the commitment that they had to do things in the right way.”

http://thescore.thejournal.ie/rafa-benitez-hillsborough-report-593953-Sep2012/?utm_source=shortlink

[McDermotX]

http://thescore.thejournal.ie/rafa-b...urce=shortlink

The man 'gets it'..........he always did.

[Shaggy]

Francis Keogh @HonestFrank
Liverpool-born jockey Franny Norton dedicates his win on The Gold Cheongsam at Doncaster's St Leger meeting to the Hillsborough 96

[rushscored4]

I'm just going through the report and seeing whether my evidence and statements were tampered with. So far I have found this section which is copied into many different documents (my surname is Crawford):

87. . Of the 26 amended statements which I mentioned in the last paragraph there is a total of ten on which I should make specific comment, and I do that in Appendix 7. In five of these cases - Creaser, Crawford, Eustis, Powell and Huckstepp - factual matters were excluded which arguably should not have been. (The amendments which they appear to have suggested to PC Huckstepp's statement were not in fact made, apparently due to administrative error - see Appendix 7).

Un****ingbelievable...

[Shaggy]

Wow. Words fail me man.

[the rev leeroy brown]

our next home game is gonna be one emotional day!

[rushscored4]

Wow.. I've just found my statement to West Midlands Police. Look at how the questions are leading me to say the group I was with and other fans had been drinking...

http://hillsborough.independent.gov....0124070001.pdf

(Pages 201 to 209 - Iain Crawford)

[the rev leeroy brown]

Wow.. I've just found my statement to West Midlands Police. Look at how the questions are leading me to say the group I was with and other fans had been drinking...

http://hillsborough.independent.gov....0124070001.pdf

(Pages 201 to 209 - Iain Crawford)

i can understand the need to question but it is so blatanly obvious the questions here are designed to push for admittance of excessive alcohol consumption and violence!

[Shaggy]

Wow.. I've just found my statement to West Midlands Police. Look at how the questions are leading me to say the group I was with and other fans had been drinking...

http://hillsborough.independent.gov....0124070001.pdf

(Pages 201 to 209 - Iain Crawford)

**** me.

[Gingawaria]

The 'Sieze' request on anyone who still had their Tickets seems odd. Am I reading too much into it is it possibly them wanting to sieze as many tickets to swell the 'ticketless' fan numbers?

[rushscored4]

This headline from the Independent dated August 5th 1989 after the Taylor Report proved we were telling the truth and they knew it 23 years ago. How can it have taken this long to have finally had confirmation and for the fans to be vindicated? It's truly staggering...

http://hillsborough.independent.gov....0000120001.pdf

[Mostar]

Wow.. I've just found my statement to West Midlands Police. Look at how the questions are leading me to say the group I was with and other fans had been drinking...

http://hillsborough.independent.gov....0124070001.pdf

(Pages 201 to 209 - Iain Crawford)

Beyond the belief.

Terrible.

[rushscored4]

Found this document too with a summary of my experience as given in evidence (page 39):

http://hillsborough.independent.gov....0000050001.pdf

One thing I said in that statement which has rarely been mentioned is the role of the mounted police outside the ground before the match who charged at the fans alongside the River Don. I heard many years later they had been sent over from Merseyside but I have no proof of this.