SCATTERED ROGUE VOICES SHOULD NOT HIDE THE LEVEL OF SOLIDARITY OVER HILLSBOROUGH
ON Sunday, Manchester United go to Anfield for Liverpool’s first home game since the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s devastating findings. The report shocked a Prime Minister and most of the nation. It looks like one of those unhappy quirks of fate that the Kop’s...
HILLSBOROUGH: OUR POLITICIANS HAVE DONE WELL THIS WEEK, BUT THAT MUST CONTINUE
By Hugh O'Connell PRAISING politicians is not popular, nor is it common. In these parts, praising Tory politicians even less so. But in a week of extraordinary events some extraordinary praise of some politicians is as necessary as Prime Minister David Cameron’s...
SORRY
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...
IT TURNED OUT LIVERPOOL WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG
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...
23 years on the FA has much to learn and even more to change
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....
SCATTERED ROGUE VOICES SHOULD NOT HIDE THE LEVEL OF SOLIDARITY OVER HILLSBOROUGH
ON Sunday, Manchester United go to Anfield for Liverpool’s first home game since the Hillsborough Independent Panel’s devastating findings. The report shocked a Prime Minister and most of the nation. It looks like one of those unhappy quirks of fate that the Kop’s...
HILLSBOROUGH: OUR POLITICIANS HAVE DONE WELL THIS WEEK, BUT THAT MUST CONTINUE
By Hugh O'Connell PRAISING politicians is not popular, nor is it common. In these parts, praising Tory politicians even less so. But in a week of extraordinary events some extraordinary praise of some politicians is as necessary as Prime Minister David Cameron’s...
SORRY
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...
IT TURNED OUT LIVERPOOL WAS RIGHT ALL ALONG
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...
23 years on the FA has much to learn and even more to change
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....









