by Gareth Roberts | Sep 15, 2012 | Footie
SORRY. Everyone is sorry. David Cameron is sorry. Kelvin Mackenzie is sorry. David Bernstein is sorry. Boris Johnson is sorry. Sir (how?) Norman Bettison is sorry. Sir (how?) Irvine Patnick is sorry. Dominic Mohan is sorry. Sheffield Wednesday are sorry. The Sheffield...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 14, 2012 | Podcast
Neil is joined by Mike Girling, Steve Graves and Mike Nevin as they pull apart what has been a historic week for the city. Music this week from Rachael Wright, Silent Sleep and a very special track from the Irish Sea Sessions group to close the show. ...
by Tony Evans | Sep 14, 2012 | Footie
IT was the day Liverpool got its reputation back. For so long, the place had been sniggered at and derided, tagged “self-pity city” and supposedly populated by whingeing, conspiracy theorists. Yesterday it turned out that Liverpool was right all along. Attitudes had...
by Tony Barrett | Sep 14, 2012 | Footie
IT has taken the Football Association more than 23 years to apologise for its role in the Hillsborough disaster and when an expression of regret was finally made yesterday it still carried the corporate air of an organisation desperately trying to cover its own back....
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 14, 2012 | Footie
By Mark Frankland HOW did I feel as I watched Cameron make a speech none of us really believed we would never hear? Shock of course. I think all of us were shocked. But here’s the thing. I very much doubt if any of us who were there at Hillsborough twenty three years...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 13, 2012 | Footie, Podcast
Neil was joined at CityTalk by Peter Hooton and Sheila Coleman for a special edition of The Anfield Wrap discussing the impact of the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s report released yesterday. They were joined on the phone by MP Steve Rotheram to talk about...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 12, 2012 | Footie
By Iain Macintosh FOR 23 years, they fought for the truth. For 23 years, they were told to stop ‘wallowing’ in their grief. Today, their tenacity, bravery and resolve was finally vindicated as the Prime Minister stood to deliver a profound and shocking apology for...
by The Anfield Wrap | Sep 11, 2012 | Footie
By Mark Frankland THESE days I manage a charity. We work a lot with veterans. I spend much of my time just sitting quietly and listening. The lads tell me about how their brains have got all screwed up by the things they have witnessed. The things they have done. They...
by Tony Barrett | Sep 11, 2012 | Footie
IF you want to experience what it’s like when the population of an entire city holds its collective breath, visit Liverpool in the next 24 hours. Look into the eyes of parents who live in hope of truth and justice and you will see a mixture of optimism and fear. Talk...
by Tony Evans | Sep 11, 2012 | Footie
ANDREW DEVINE has never spoken about what happened to him on a sunny spring day 23 years ago. He has never spoken about anything since. He was 22 when he went to a football match, an FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. For the...
