I always feel a bit of a fraud when people apologise to this city as a whole, I wasn't directly affected. We all knew someone who lost somebody, we all knew a traumatised survivor... I simply lucked out because my family is almost entirely blue (which makes for uhmmm...interesting banter on derby day!)
I was at the vigil and the families thanked us all, and again I wondered why. But I've realised it's because we didn't question it, it was just the truth and we all knew it. It must have meant so much to them in the face of the doubters, in the face of certain Chelsea fans cheering through the minute's silence. In the face of certain Man U fans spitting on the memorial. But that's ok because the fans were just murdering scum and Liverpool wallows in self pity and enjoys it's perceived victim status.
Not so much now, eh?
When we can afford it we take our LFC mad 14 year old to matches, and I think "thank god you're a generation later because that could have been you"
We saw those children on the big screen, no different from my boy. So many times I've been involved in Hillsborough discussions in various forums, the belief in those lies in general was staggering. I'd get so bloody angry my fists would involuntarily clench with frustration and time and again I'd spell it out, as it really was. I'm still seeing stupid posts, spouting the same old shit but now I shrug, that's just your ignorance, pal. Usually from LFC haters who don't have the intelligence to grasp that this isn't a football issue. It's a human tragedy issue. Whatever team made that semi final and was allocoated the Leppings Lane end would have been the victims of Hillsborough but in the past they've told themselves their fans are/were better behaved and they brought it on themselves.
Now they're just pissing in the wind. Cranky little voices...but...but...but...
No buts anymore. JFT96.