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The Tories and The Sun still blame Manchester United supporters for Peterloo.
Meh, Peterloo, Waterloo, Mr. Magoo, they're all the same according to The Sun...
The Tories and The Sun still blame Manchester United supporters for Peterloo.
Ever since they stopped putting tits on page three it's one sole reason for existence vanished....
Imagine growing up in a house where the two papers your dad bought every day were The Sun and the Daily Mail?
It explains a lot actually (had to get that one in before anyone else did)
I'm so glad something has finally happened. I used to watch Sheffield Wednesday at home, when I was a kid, and I believed football mattered. I've certainly read a lot about the Hillsborough disaster and looked at the Leppings Lane end, when at matches, and thought '96 people died there'. When they played Liverpool, the place was packed, actually. It was always Duckenfield's fault, and he deserves to be locked up. It doesn't matter how many people were pissed up, or how many turned up without a ticket. He lied about opening that gate, and the whole force covered it up. He should have just said that he fucked up, and he probably would have been made redundant and left to get over what he did. Instead, he has to live with the fact that he opened that gate, killed a load of people, then just lied about it. He must be shitting his fucking pants.
When I see someone reading The Sun, it makes me want to punch them like a Daily Mail reader. That's a fucking evil newspaper.
This won't be popular but it does bug me slightly there is no accountability whatsoever from Liverpudlians that ticketless fans - a proven fact - could have helped cause this disaster.
No argument that the police mis handled the event in the most appealing way not to mention the disgusting cover up but why oh why does no one dare question the very fact if it weren't for ticketless Liverpool fans the disaster wouldn't have played out
Easier to point the finger.
There is a reason freedom of information laws release secret government papers after 30 yrs. by this stage most politicians are either dead or time has dulled the public outrage enough for things to slip by without consequence.
This is simply another piece of history with a similar ending.
It's an emotive subject so you're excused.Hello Officer.
Not that you'll bother to read it, because you couldn't even be bothered to do any research (there's this thing called google) before posting your police apologia, but here is a full rebuttal as to why you are talking out of your arse.
Now don't you have some donuts to eat? Busy nightshift was it?
ZingGlad they got justice for the police cover up let's hope the 39 dead Italians will get their justice too.
They lied because the truth is/was they messed up. Big time. They managed the situation in the worst possible manner it's just convenient to stop there rather than raise the question - was the presence of ticketless fans a contributing factor?If the police were so convinced it was ticketless fans and not their own incompetence at traffic management (which should also include making provisions for ticketless fans if there are any) then why did they feel the need to spin such a web of lies to get themselves off the hook? They didn't need to intervene.
Let me put it another way. Would the disaster have unfolded if those ticketless fans weren't there? We all know the answerYou have a strange way of thinking there mystery man.
All the lies and cover ups by the police (just remember what their job is supposed to be) and the distress caused by this and it still bugs you that some football fans attended without tickets and that they are not held accountable.
That is a crazy outlook to have. I'm not even going to attempt to explain why...cos if you don't get it now you probably never will.
Well, if we are going to throw blame onto anyone besides the police, how about blaming the mindless thugs whose behaviour managed to convince those in charge that perimeter fences were a good idea in the first place?
And why did the authorities decide to put Liverpool fans in the Leppings Lane end, which was the "Away" fans' end, when there are more people who support Liverpool than Forest?
Still, that gate should never have been opened. It ought to have been obvious to anybody -- especially a high-ranking police officer, who could be expected to know a bit about people and how they are likely to behave in a given situation -- what was going to happen if you suddenly allowed even more people into an already-packed confined space.
There was a whole culture of treating football supporters as less than fully human (and some, undeniably, acting less than fully human) that was the real problem.