"Astonishing scenes at

[Tosh]

the Liverpool - Arsenal FA Cup match on 6th January, broadcast live on BBC1. Thousands of fans on the Kop held up coloured cards spelling out, in huge letters, "THE TRUTH", and for the first six minutes of play the crowd kept up a deafening chant of "Justics for the 96". Several placards proclaimed "Kelvin McKenzie is a liar"

 

18 years after the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 people died, the former S*n editor hasn't been forgive for his front page story "The Truth" which alleged that Liverpool fans had been robbed and urinated on by fellow Scousers even as they lay dying. Kelvin further inflamed the animosity last month by saying that he apologised at the time "only because Ruper Murdoch told me to. I wasn't sorry then and I'm not sorry now.

 

Though the protest was widely reported elsewhere, the S*ns lengthy match report ignored it. Alas for Rebekah Wade, several Anfield fans made good the omission on the S*n sports website, whose controller had apparently fallen asleep"

 

 

This (retyped) from the latest Private Eye (1176)

[Stevie H]

 

nice one lord gnome.

[fyds]

Anyone who despises Kelvin Mackenzie and Boris Johnson is a friend of E.J. Thribb.

[Scally Bob]

(Cont. P94)

[smithdown]

Er.

 

That's it.

[JRC]

The Eye has been surprisingly lightweight on Hillsborough in the past - amidst the knockabout stuff the genuine expose journalism of cover-ups, incompetence and tabloid excess is usually spot on, but they seemed to shy away from covering Hillsborough - football too working class?

 

Strange, given that Paul Foot is a massive Plymouth fan, and the mags founders were school pals of John Peel. This is more about knocking The S*n, I suppose, but welcome none the less.

 

Brandies All Round!!

[cymrococh]

I disagree, The Eye has been consistently supportive of justice for hillsborough and has also been one of the few media outlets to report our 'handling' by the manc police when we play at Old Trafford.

Edited January 19, 2007 by Paul Caruso

[JRC]

I disagree, The Eye has been consistently supportive of justice for hillsborough and has also been one of the few media outlets to report our 'handling' by the manc police when we play at Old Trafford.

 

I'll take your word for it, as I'm not as regular a reader as I used to be, but certainly recall that they ran a review of the Jimmy McGovern TV Drama which rather sneered at it, implying the usual dismissals (whingers, looking for others to blame, Taylor a 'whitewash' etc), following which a couple of letters were printed which pointed out that they hadn't laid into SYP and other culpable bodies with the gusto they usually would (although McKenzie has always been fair game to them). I certainly don't remember any really serious look at the injustice and cover-up, despite that being their stock-in-trade.

 

But that may have been Ingrams Editorship, and he was a perverse old sod - maybe things have changed now. Certainly haven't read anything about the Manc Police - pity, because we have clearly lost the PR war in the reporting of bad behaviour at LFC-ManU matches. I know that sounds a crass reference in regard to genuinely offensive and anti-social behaviour, but I'm also sick of presenters and callers claiming the moral high ground - by inference - by reeling off the well-known (and not necessarily untrue) offences committed in our name without anyone pointing out that there is usually just as much offensive stuff happening on the other side - Mickey Quinnn lets Terry Christian tweak his tale all the time, without ever having a comeback.

[Guest Scot]

Paul's right, the Eye has been consistenly supportive.