DOES THIS GO TO THE TOP

THE TRUTH

After the news that there will be an inquiry into a cover up at Hillsborough. How far up the ladder does this go?. After reading the 400 page report in full .it brings back one thing that through the emotion of the terrible event that I had forgot.

 (Q) The reason why I never went to the game.
 It was my first reaction to the events unfolding after 6 minutes past 3 on that fateful day. The crushing in and outside of the ground at the Leppings Lane end of the ground was so bad in 1988, It put me right off going to the 1989 semi-final. It jogged my memory about the crush at the turnstiles. But more so the crush going through the tunnel, to the central pen behind the goal.

 I remember two thirds through the tunnel how bad the crush had been with people starting to panic. As we came out of the tunnel we moved left. I can now recall a message over the tannoy to step backward to avoid unnecessary crowd congestion or words to that effect. Within 10 minutes the crush had gone. I had looked up the tunnel 30 minutes into the game. The tunnel was completely empty. As I realized through reading the report the Police had shut the gates to the tunnel. Then emptying the tunnel, sending people to the side pens. It was all pretty scary stuff cementing my decision not to go the following year.
As the events of 1989 unfolded being young these memories were erased by frantic phone calls trying to get information about families and friends.
But reading the report I get the feeling how could anyone let this happen, more so with the events of the previous year.  Which the report goes into in detail. 

The conspiracy theorist round the world could jump on the band wagon saying that 1988 was a dry run.  If you wanted to inflict great harm on a group of people, Hillsborough would be the perfect place.
I hear you say that is going too far the Yorkshire Police planned the disaster. Well it is not as far-fetched as a Police force being so incompetent. Followed by the mother of all cover ups, secret meeting in pubs, altering statements the list goes on.

So planned attack aside how far up the chain of command did this cover up go?. The rift between Liverpool the city and Thatcher was no secret. The city’s socialist roots Derrick Hatton held her to ransom nearly bringing her to yield. The city’s backing of the Miners going up against her on picket lines. Along with OH YES the SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE.  Her uniformed thugs deployed all over the country including the poll tax riots . Also I think they were involved in the Battle of the Bean field.

So the City of Liverpool was not on the top of her Christmas card list.  But let us not forget Heysel where 39 mostly Italian fans lost their lives. I was at Heysel it was a cigarette paper thin chance that it was not Liverpool fans that lost their lives in Brussels. But Thatcher had no ears for the failing in the authority’s to stage the final in a death trap stadium. Or the fact that two thirds of the stadium was allocated to Italian fans. Considering that Liverpool FC were the reigning champions. The fact that Liverpool fans in Rome the year before had been on the wrong end of countless viscous attacks and stabbings. Her barging powers in Europe must have taken a nose dive after Heysel. After all Brussels is the home of the European Parliament who knows what deals she was planning when Heysel happened.

So was Hillsborough pay back, it seems so far-fetched  But was behavior of the South Yorkshire Police/South Yorkshire Ambulance Service on that day far-fetched  The neutral before the report thought it was.  The fact that the Police/ Ambulance Service had a call sign to use for a major incident, it was never used. But the list of injustice is endless. So who is going to take the wrap, how high is it going to go? All we can do is watch this space and support the families for justice at last. YNWA JF96


 

STOKE BORE DRAW

KNOB HEAD

I was going to give the Stoke game a miss. But I was thinking that it was the perfect game for Liverpool to start my wished run of  hard fought 1 or 2 nil wins . Which is what Rogers hinted the team really needed. But as I predicted in my blog on Friday that it was going to be a 1 nil win. I gave up and headed to Anfield.

 The game was as predicted Stoke playing like Stoke.  If ever a team had come for a draw it was Stoke. So it was no surprise, as it was no surprise to their Woolly Back supporter’s. With constant chants of songs like!!!!WE PLAY LIKE WE WANT!!!!. .But as Liverpool knew how Stoke we’re going to play the game.... Stoke knew how Liverpool would play the game. Stoke got away with it, all very predictable.
 That is all very well but we are despite for a plan B, Stoke don't need one .Liverpool have a pedigree to look after. “We can look on the bright side we don't support Stoke”.  I said to a group of mouthy Stoke supporters in town after the game. We are going through a frustrated period. But I felt sorry for Stoke supporters. As soon as Stoke try to play any sort of descent football they will be in a relegation fight not a future I would want.
 So the game could have been so much of a lift. It was never going to be a Liverpool high scoring win.  But one of those rare 1 nil wins was on the cards. Which as I keep going on about it is what Liverpool need at the moment , a string of them  That is where the plan B comes in ….we don't have one . With Liverpool pressing as the clock passed 80mins a scrambled goal. Could have started a run of hard fought narrow wins.
 But not to be…. it is Reading next. Will Reading be like Stoke? It is a huge a possibility. Do they know how Liverpool will play? Well at the moment they will. So until we show some variety in our game plan it could be a repeat of Stokes visit.
 So I can take some comfort and look on the bright side we are not a Stoke.  But Liverpool must find ways of breaking such teams down.
  As for Suarez diving the thing is he gives his all. It’s just something that prick Pulis can jump on the band wagon for a moan. Too friendly with whiskey nose for my liking. Over half Pulis’s team on yellow cards it speaks for its self. Let’s hope the suspensions add up and he will be forced to play some players that are not yard dogs. You never know they might try and play football. Something your average Stoke fan has not seen for a while. YNWA JF96

RODGERS SOUNDED RATTLED

LIVERPOOL 2 UDINESE 3

For the first time Rodgers seemed a little bit rattled in the after match interview. Personally I enjoyed the game ...he aimed his frustration at the defense with comments like. “We should not have to score 4 or 5 goals to win games”. “It is something that we have to address” The lack of concentration for periods in the game.

 So we have gone to not being able to buy a goal. To finding our shooting boots, only for another aspect of our play to fall by the way side. It is like the hole in the dyke was plugged only for more leaks to appear. The match its self was enjoyable, well I enjoyed it, Other than the result... Some of Liverpool’s play was breath taking before we scored... Then again that is where for me the problem lies.  As I blogged last month apart from the Norwich, Young Boys, games I worry when we take the lead. That was what Rodgers was trying to get across. Instead he for me was leading people to think he was pointing the blame, now at the defense.
 It is the whole team’s problem, what game plan we take once we have scored. He hinted we should be winning games 1 or 2 nil. But for me he should have made that clearer. Taking the team as one unit to address the problem of conceding after scoring is a lot less miss jointed. Than going along the road of it was mainly a defense problem. He would have done himself a lot more favors if he had made this point.
 So too put it as he should have put it last night. We are doing fine but once we take the lead. The team as a whole has to protect that. This is something the team is going work hard on. That would have pleased me, the simple solution protect the lead.
 A few 1.0 wins is the order of the day. Starting with Stoke on Sunday get to the bookies
  YNWA JF96……..
 

SOME MAN U REF STATS FUNNY THAT!!!

Just a few reasons why it is plain to see that the F.A are in the the pockets of Manchester United. These stats just keep coming....you would be a fool to think that there nothing in it.....It is only a matter of time before Man U and the F.A go to far and football will suffer. Are Man U good for the future of football????.
I DON'T THINK SO...........YNWA JF96