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Why were asked to (instructed to) participate in the Hillsborough remembrance yesterday when we don't do the same for

 

 

Burnden

Ibrox

Bradford

Heysel

I would like to know the official answer to this

Posted

It's a daily thing Hillsborough, every other day without fail on Granada or North West BBC.

 

Then the back pages about doing this or that for the 96 to take the emotional high ground.

 

Then the vitriolic hatred of everyone who dares to differ.

 

And at the same time having lived my footballing life going to games where liverpool have a large section of feral fans, who continually tried and get something for nothing. We know that they don't live their lives as they expect others to live theirs.

 

Do as I say not as I do is the Liverpool mantra.

 

This now has less to do with the people who died that day. This is a vehicle for other things.

Posted

My lad (7) asked me why we were having a minutes silence on Saturday

 

I told him all about what happened and he was visibly upset. I pointed out that a terrible, terrible accident occurred at a time when it could have been a weekly occurrence.

 

He asked if anything similar had ever happened to me at Bolton games and the answer was yes.

 

But we accepted it as part of the experience. Everyone did.

 

Those 96 should never have died, and I will always be sad they did and count myself lucky as I'm sure many others do.

 

But as Clown says, the chief centre of disrespect seems to be the very ones supposedly at the hub of it all.

 

I hope the can now rest in peace.

Posted

Can't believe this board sometimes, I really can't.

 

We wasn't in for the silence but that wasn't because we didn't want to be. We did. We planned to be there, there was a fuck up with the minibus.

 

I've got friends who were there, we have connections with some of there fans, we take them.on the lash here when we play them and they return the favour. We have known about some if the things that have only recently come out for years. Respect to those that have kept the fight going.

 

Everyone who goes to football should come home.

 

JFT96 RIP

Posted

And at the same time having lived my footballing life going to games where liverpool have a large section of feral fans, who continually tried and get something for nothing. We know that they don't live their lives as they expect others to live theirs.

 

You could level that accusation against any of the top teams in the country at the time. It could just as easily have been Spurs supporters who died in a crush at the same end of the same ground in an FA Cup semi-final a couple of years earlier.

Posted

It's one thing to be pissed off with the campaign for justice and their refusal to shoulder any of the blame.

 

It is, however, a completely different thing to not be able to take a little time to show a mark of respect for those that died.

 

No matter what your beef is with LFC and their fans, the ones who died that day are the truly innocent ones in all of this.  It's irrelevant who caused it and it's also irrelevant how horrible the rest of their fans are, past or present.  Children went to a game and never came home.  To refuse to bow your head and think of those poor souls for just a minute of your lives is a bit disgusting IMO.

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It's one thing to be pissed off with the campaign for justice and their refusal to shoulder any of the blame.

 

It is, however, a completely different thing to not be able to take a little time to show a mark of respect for those that died.

 

No matter what your beef is with LFC and their fans, the ones who died that day are the truly innocent ones in all of this. It's irrelevant who caused it and it's also irrelevant how horrible the rest of their fans are, past or present. Children went to a game and never came home. To refuse to bow your head and think of those poor souls for just a minute of your lives is a bit disgusting IMO.

Couldn't have put it any better.

 

Well said that man.

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Because they have a backbone of English players.

 

Because they plucked a manager from the lower reaches of the league,gave him a shot and then gave him time when other clubs would have potted him within months.

 

Because they are fucking outstanding to watch and everything I love about football.

 

Because them being in contention takes the title even further from the grasp of Manchester,when 2-3 years ago it looked like it was there to stay.

 

Im not saying I want them to win the title by way as I couldn't care less.

 

Just think good on em for having a go in the most entertaining way possible.

 

They play well but for me Citeh have played much  more entertaining football this season and apart from the first 20 mins yesterday were better than Liverpool.

 

Give me Manchester over Liverpool any day.

Posted

Really want Leicester to win at Reading tonight.

 

1 - It will keep our extremely thin chance of a play-off place alive.

(If Reading win the goal difference will almost certainly exclude us [if only we'd lost there by a single goal]).

 

2 - If Leicester win this and then beat QPR, and Burnley draw with either Blackpool(!) or Wigan then the title is won the day before coming to Bolton.

Posted

No matter what your beef is with LFC and their fans, the ones who died that day are the truly innocent ones in all of this.  It's irrelevant who caused it and it's also irrelevant how horrible the rest of their fans are, past or present.  Children went to a game and never came home.  To refuse to bow your head and think of those poor souls for just a minute of your lives is a bit disgusting IMO.

 

Who refused?

Posted (edited)

Heard another funny one from a very reliable source at Blackpool today.

 

When Karl Oyston relaid the pitch at Bloomfield road last summer,he set up his own company to do it and that company was paid £1 million to carry out the work.

 

Haha

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Posted

Heard another funny one from a very reliable source at Blackpool today.

 

When Karl Oyston relaid the pitch at Bloomfield road last summer,he set up his own company to do it and that company was paid £1 million to carry out the work.

 

Haha

talking to a Blackpool fan the other day who said he liked oysten as the club had stayed financially sound and not overstretched itself. I pointed out that he seemed to have pocketed most of the money himself but he wouldn't have it. Must be related to him that's all I can think. He's from Fleetwood though and I remember you saying they're not wired up right.

Posted

Interesting to see a lot of empty seats at the second semi yesterday...71k crowd compared with the 75k for our semi. Fans saving themselves for the final - as was the case with us. The sooner they stop playing semis at Wembley the better. Probably sometime around 2086 when we've paid for the stadium about 50 times over. Cheers FA.

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