i dont know doc,

maybe that will come out in due course

Better late than never. We might get the Southern softies to remove their organs from the backsides of the Royal Family and the tory scum one day.

Italians went to a football match back in 85....39 never got home.  The Liverpool hierarchy at the time blamed the chelsea fans . Which the club has never or made any attempt to make an apology for their false allegations.

Do chelsea ban Liverpool FC from stamford bridge?

Something must have happened for LFC to take this step, but i imagine we will have to wait until the next issue of Private Eye to find out what exactly.

Good to see a club support its community.  Increasingly rare these days.  Usually it would be a marketing person saying we can't do that because it would affect our brand blah blah

^ Total sh!te.

Ive grown up believing that when the gates were opened on police instruction (wrongly of course) there were fans who entered the ground without tickets causing serious ovrcrowding. If that is the case then surely the Liverpool fans in question should hang their haeds in shame at the series of events that their actions caused.

Of course there were fans without tickets. Even now there are Liverpool fans who boast of getting into matches without tickets so it'd be ludicrous to imagine there were none there that day. I am not saying supporters of other clubs don't try to get in without tickets.

I've been in the stands at OT when there have been 60,000 in the ground and I know there is a lot less elbow room than when there was 57,000 in there so very definitely the fans without tickets must have contributed to the crush.

But from watching the videos it's pretty plain to see that the fans died because of the pushing at the back. Fans desperate to see their side met up with a wholly unsuitable ground with inadequate policing and 96 innocent people died.

I believe because of Hillsborough and other tragedies  it is incumbent on every football supporter to behave themselves at games.

There were ticketless fans but I doubt that was a factor.

The ground was actually under capacity at the time people were being crushed to death , even the terrace they died on had plenty of room , but the space was in the outside pens.

Anyone walking through the tunnel would naturally go straight in to the centre pen. There was a door to the left leading to the side pen but you just wouldn't be aware as no signs or stewards directing fans that way.

So the stadium was very badly designed for the purpose and it required someone in charge that knew the stadium and knew football.

The guy in charge knew nothing about either ; thought Liverpool were playing against 'Nottinghamshire'

Rather pathetic from LFC.

Lies were told and an apology was made. That should be the end of it - time to move on - especially after 29 years!!

Liverpool aren't the only club to ban certain sections of the media. One club have even banned the BBC for the last few years

Banning them in 2017 not 1989 ???????

Most of the current journalists will have been at school , if even born, when the disaster happened.......punishing the wrong people for the sake of punishing somebody comes to mind.

Whoops hadn't finished......chase you lot round the streets

this could turn out to be a counter productive move by Liverpool fc

from the daily mirror owned Liverpool Echo...




The Sun has been banned from attending all press conferences and football matches at Anfield.

The decision was taken on Friday, February 10, 2017.

Which begs the obvious question - why have they been actually allowed in for the past 28 years?

The answer lies in the very different media landscape which existed in 1989.

Sports departments of national newspapers and their news desks operated very independently of each other.

Independently and often competitively.

Sports writers regularly counted players and senior officials at football clubs as friends as well as contacts and went out of their way to protect those sources. They often fell foul of their news desks as a result.

A sports reporter wouldn't file a story about a player falling out of a bar drunk at 2am, usually because he'd be falling into a cab home with him.

News reporters would frequently tell their sports desk colleagues they weren't 'proper' journalists. It didn't matter to Sports Editors, because those writers delivered the best sports exclusives as a result.

People inside football clubs also treated sports writers and news reporters differently.

They trusted their daily sports contacts, but were suspicious of news reporters.

And that was the mindset at work when the Sun's newsdesk decided to run its infamous headline the week after the disaster.

Phil Thomas took over from Ellis and inherited the goodwill and respect he had generated.

But since the Hillsborough Inquest finally and belatedly delivered a verdict of unlawful killing last year - delivering the first signs of justice at long last - people have demanded accountability.

And that reviled publication has finally been brought to account.

thanks for that bb, i was listening to 5live last night and it was said that there was no apology from the paper, obviously there was...

  albeit 20 odd years later.

agree 100 % crystal, i contribute in my own small way by not buying it..  every bit helps. 

btw, no one buys newspapers anymore

dont even pick up the free metro

I suppose the Heysel tragedy was nothing to do with Liverpool either, that was someone else's fault as well.
The overcrowding in Hillsborough was due to the fact that people who had no right to be in the ground turned up and werent to be kept out under any circumstances.
We all know the truth about Hillsborough, although the scousers will always have someone else to blame.