Hillsborough heckles for Andy Burnham at Anfield
Amazing scenes from Anfield, the home of Liverpool FC today, on the 20th anniversary of the disaster at Hillsborough.
A total of 96 people died as the match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest was getting under in Sheffield way back in April 1989.
Anfield was absolutely packed today and the atmosphere was emotionally charged. Tempers are running high as the widespread sense of injustice and institutional failure that many of the victims’ families feel continues.
It manifested itself in the booing of secretary of state for culture, media and sport Andy Burnham at Anfield today. We will be talking to him on the programme tonight.
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Thought Andy Burnham handled himself very well through the understandable barracking the government of the day should get for NOT insisting that this is re looked at – there are questions still unanswered and a wider remit needs to be given to any inquiry.
I think that the timing of his visit could have been planned better….Following the 20th anniversary of Hillsborough…
As he talks about the dignity and resolve that the families have shown they start booing. Classy!
Boris was right about that lot.
At what point are Liverpool fans going to accept some of the blame for this?
After all, hundreds turned up without tickets – after being told not to. Didn’t they?
Your telling us we did arent you, why spout rubbish then ask if we did? Suppose we opened the gates and told the ambulances not to enter as they were fighting as well, oh and robbed the cctv. Get a grip.
No – to say what happened would take too long for a comment box of this size. But it has to be looked at in the climate of the time – fans were routinely treated like subhuman cattle. And they sometimes acted like it. But this was a tragedy of immense proportions. And it could have happened to ANY football club on that day. The fact that no-one has been held to account 20 years on is reprehensible.
I am not a Liverpool fan. I am a football fan. There but for the grace of god go I.
I don’t think it could of happened to ANY club.
You are entitled to your opinion. However misguided I think it is.
If you want to have a go at Scousers – fill your boots (although it’s all a bit… well 80′s now)
However, please don’t quote me Boris bleedin’ Johnson
A couple of weeks back on TV, the ‘Mayor of London’ was heard (secret tape) condoning the beating up of a journo, who had said something uncomplimentary about his mate (the criminal!) Darius Guppy.
His response “that was years ago”
Eh?
Also calling black people “piccaninnies” and referring to their “watermelon” smiles shows me that this feller is as thick as s****.
Give me a Scouser ANY day
Sorry Real Mick, as a fan (not of Liverpoool, but of Newcastle) who watched football throughout the 80s, a tragedy like his was waiting to happen, and it could have happened to any of us.
We were treated appallingly by police, the clubs, the government seemed to look on us like an extension of the NUM. I’m a very mild mannered chap, but looking back at the old footage, this still makes me angry and hurt
In addition, who actually opened the gates? The fans? I think not… Read the Taylor Report
It’s unhealthy to drag up memories of these tragedies every ten years, reopening old wounds. Dare I say it, it is a sign of areas that tend to look backwards rather than forward and that is at the root of some of their problems.
Would you really call it heckling? Nothing was aimed at the man in particular – as my (perhaps ill-informed) definition of heckling would have it. They were chanting, and I found it pretty stirring.