Hillsborough

There are a small section at every ground in the country that are "hooligans" or "thugs" but the tend to fight with other "hooligans" and "thugs", more often than not, away from the actual grounds. The vast majority of these are very well known to the police who seem to let them get on with it as long as normal supporters aren't dragged into it. I say give em a field out of town and let em murder each other...natural selection at it's best!

The vast majority of football fans are just that, football fans, there to support their team and offer a good bit of banter to the opposition!

and of course there was a review of the evidence in 1997, 8 years after the incident, by Lord Justice Stuart-Smith to review "new" evidence which had not been submitted to the earlier inquiry including police and witness statements, which had been altered.

Somehow he concluded that this new evidence was not in fact significant and the altered statements were an "error of judgement"........

FFS!

So surely that should be Lord Stuart-Smith with the "justice" dropped?!?!

We all pretty much knew the truth and the time it has taken for the truth to be acknowledged officially is shameful. A business associate/friend of mine was lost at Hillsborough and I felt his loss. However my sense of loss is insignificant when compared to the likes of the Hicks family that lost two young daughters.

Partly assisting the blaming of the fans for all that went wrong,was I think the fact that it involved Liverpool once again. Let us not forget that in 1985 a wild bunch of Liverpool fans and some from other English clubs went to Heysel Stadium to avenge the brutal treatment of mostly innocent Liverpool fans the year before in Rome. That was the catalyst of the behaviour in Belgium. Inexcusable,but there it was. The crazed fans on that occasion WERE drunk and drugged up,but to automatically draw the same conclusions when faced with another tragedy just a few years later was frankly abhorrent.