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ECHO Comment: "Fears of Witch-hunt Against Liverpool FC" part 3

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Apologies to anyone upset by my post for which I totally accept the week's ban. It was poorly worded and reading back was inappropriate.

I'm not a scumbag or similar, honestly, and I am local. I also knew someone who lost a family member that day in 1989, it was a guy's cousin, and it has always bothered me that, while blame was rightly handed out, there was no acceptance that some liability rested with those in attendance. I hold my hands up to believing that, but I have never joked about it. I got angry and posted when I shouldn't have. The events in Paris got me riled up about the fact that it could have happened again, which nobody wants.

Please consider this a public and polite apology. I am grateful for the ban being only temporary.
 
Pilks said:
Apologies to anyone upset by my post for which I totally accept the week's ban. It was poorly worded and reading back was inappropriate.

I'm not a scumbag or similar, honestly, and I am local. I also knew someone who lost a family member that day in 1989, it was a guy's cousin, and it has always bothered me that, while blame was rightly handed out, there was no acceptance that some liability rested with those in attendance. I hold my hands up to believing that, but I have never joked about it. I got angry and posted when I shouldn't have. The events in Paris got me riled up about the fact that it could have happened again, which nobody wants.

Please consider this a public and polite apology. I am grateful for the ban being only temporary.
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But you could also argue that liability lay with those responsible for the fencing in of fans, i.e football hooligans in general. A similar tragedy almost occurred there a few years before when Spurs played Wolves in an FA Cup semi-final. No lessons were learned from that, so do the football authorities & SWFC have to accept some sort of liability in not making the ground safer ? As football fans we need to stick together on these things & not let tribalism cloud our judgement. It could quite easily have been us there on that day.


 

Blueboy57 said:
But you could also argue that liability lay with those responsible for the fencing in of fans, i.e football hooligans in general. A similar tragedy almost occurred there a few years before when Spurs played Wolves in an FA Cup semi-final. No lessons were learned from that, so do the football authorities & SWFC have to accept some sort of liability in not making the ground safer ? As football fans we need to stick together on these things & not let tribalism cloud our judgement. It could quite easily have been us there on that day.


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A very good point that is often overlooked. Could have been Forest Fans also. Blame should not been attached to fans in anyway.
 

wandyr79 said:
Didn't see what he did but I guessed he scored at least one, the BBC Facebook feed was awash with Kopite headlines and this was one of them, apparently scoring in a friendly is now seen as sticking it to the critics.
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Scored 4 goals in a 5-0 win against Leipzig
 

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