The 97

[Lee909]

 

David Conn has been excellent since the inquiry started. Constant updates and articles

[Arl arse]

David Conn has been excellent since the inquiry started. Constant updates and articles

He got a standing ovation at the press conference. He's one of the good guy's.

[Hand Shandy]

David Conn has been excellent since the inquiry started. Constant updates and articles

Agreed. For all its faults, The Guardian's coverage has been excellent.

[Captain]

Finally.

 

JFT96

[Sugar Ape]

Here's the video by David Conn that accompanies the article. I found this really hard to view but I'm so angry after watching it. From SYP to the Tories to Mckenzie. Sub human scum the lot of them.

 

[Paco]

Scandalous how long this took to come about.

 

Liverpool painted as the stereotype all these years when it was the bent coppers all along.

 

They told you and they were right.

[bonesman]

CNN dissing the rag,  'pack of lies' and other phrases being thrown about, Bonnie Greer says.

[G Richards]

 

 

I can't get over seeing her face. So proud and relieved to finally get to this day after such a long and difficult battle for justice. Yet the grief and sense of loss she bears is also so evident. 

 

God bless you Margaret Aspinall, and all the families who have suffered with you.  

[bonesman]

Scandalous how long this took to come about.

 

Liverpool painted as the stereotype all these years when it was the bent coppers all along.

 

They told you and they were right.

 

 Rumours of masonic links now, as if it couldnt get any murkier.

[Ginny]

Went into the toilets in work today to read the announcement on my phone. Ended up crying in the cubicle for about 20 mins. I can remember this happening when I was in junior school and hearing about the lads in my school who lost brothers and fathers. Then if that wasn't bad enough the whole load of shit that scousers have been dragged through as a people since. It feels like a massive release finally.

 

This isn't just a win - it's a win against the state. It's true people power and shows the determination and grit of scousers to battle on and win. I'm so proud to be a scouser all the time but today especially.

 

RIP 96 - YNWA XX

[Special K]

I see C4 News nabbed MacKenzie coming out of a supermarket.

 

He condemned the police and congratulated the families and claimed that "in a funny way" he was a victim of the police's cover up too.

 

The brass balls on this cunt. Horrible specimen.

Saw that. I screamed "fuck you" at the telly. Then apologised profusely to my 10 year old step daughter whilst explaining my utter contempt for that creature

 

Justice

[Arl arse]

Rumours of masonic links now, as if it couldnt get any murkier.

Is it really that surprising tho mate, an organisation with loads of top ranking Police officers as members and deep links into the establishment decide to close ranks and protect its members and pin all the blame on those with no power and no representation.

 

It's the blueprint of how the elites work, look at the banks and politicians after 2008 when they held the planet to ransom.

 

This doesn't surprise me in the slightest, those in power who want to stay in power will lie, cheat and slander anyone who threaten their positions.

[bonesman]

Is it really that surprising tho mate, an organisation with loads of top ranking Police officers as members and deep links into the establishment decide to close ranks and protect its members and pin all the blame on those with no power and no representation.

 

It's the blueprint of how the elites work, look at the banks and politicians after 2008 when they held the planet to ransom.

 

This doesn't surprise me in the slightest, those in power who want to stay in power will lie, cheat and slander anyone who threaten their positions.

 

Not to me mate, no.

[Arl arse]

Not to me mate, no.

I know mate, you of all people know the score.

[Sugar Ape]

http://www.liverpoolfc.com/news/announcements/218434-kenny-dalglish-on-hillsborough-inquests

 

Kenny Dalglish on Hillsborough inquests

 

 

Following the return of the jury's determinations at the Hillsborough inquests today, Kenny Dalglish offered his reaction in an interview with Liverpoolfc.com.

 

Kenny, firstly, what are your thoughts on the unlawful killing verdict?

 

Well it can only be a pleasure for the families who have endured 27 years trying to get to the point that they knew should have been there 27 years ago. The way they have gone about getting to this point has been unbelievable - their humility, the way they've conducted themselves, their dignity and the determination to get what they thought was justice and the belief from them that the supporters were in no way, shape or form, to blame. You're pleased that they've won this but on the other hand it's taken 27 years out of their life, what they gave for their life and their families' life. It's fantastic news for them and it's news that they thoroughly deserve. I don't know which words you would use to describe your feelings - certainly 'celebration' is not the right word. Completely and utterly correct, the supporters of Liverpool Football Club have been totally vindicated and there'll be a lot of people there who have heard the verdict and they might be shaking in their boots a little bit because, obviously, you would expect there to be some recompense to anybody who's tried to alter or affect the truth coming through here and also in affecting the outcome. If that is the case, then surely if there is anyone like that then they're the ones that are going to be called to task.

 

As someone who knows them well, what do you think has kept the families going all this time?

 

The belief that they were telling the truth all this time. And the belief that the people that were close to it at Liverpool Football Club and the people who supported the club that were there on that day, [that] they knew the truth. They knew that it wasn't their fault. They knew that they were innocent and it's absolutely fantastic that they have done it to get the verdict unlawful killing, which is what they were wanting. They couldn't have asked for any more. When Andy Burnham came and said he would get the papers released at an earlier date than the 30 years that was government stipulation, he's done a fantastic job getting that. It's easy for us to talk about it and if you think very deeply for the families and what they've been through that there's been a lot of people who have walked alongside them who don't get the credit they deserve. There has been fantastic people there like Phil Scraton who have been unbelievable in the support for the families. All Marina did, and myself, at the beginning is do for the families what they done for us and that was giving our support, we have, week in, week out, their support.

 

Tomorrow there's a civic event on the steps of St George's Hall - how pleasing is it that the people of Liverpool will have the opportunity to show their appreciation for the families?

 

I think everybody knows they show appreciation. I think that's been one of the most important reasons that they've been able to continue for 27 years, the support that they've had from the people of Liverpool and elsewhere. Without that support, and there have been tough years - it's easy when you go back over and say '27 years' but they actually go through 27 years of your life fighting this and there were really, really tough days. It's been fantastic that they've been there and it's fantastic that they've come out the other the end with every judgement in their favour.

 

The jury totally exonerated the supporters of responsibility - what's your message for the survivors on a day they've waited a very long time for?

 

[For] many people who survived, it was traumatic for them as well. They lived through it, they did everything they possibly could to help people who, at the day, were struggling. If the supporters maybe got a little bit more help from the people who were supposed to be there to help then maybe there wouldn't have been as many fatalities as there were. The people that were there will feel their pleasure that the families have been given a day with the judgement that was passed, but there's no-one who can put themselves in a position that the families are in, reflect and quote accurately what they have been through - we don't know, we've not got a clue really what they've been through. But what they have been, they've been magnificent in what they set out to achieve and it's congratulations to each and every single one of them, if that's the right word, for getting this victory in getting justice for themselves that they fought so hard to get. The verdict of unlawful killing, the vindication of every supporter that was there, it gives them a clean bill of health. And now I'm sure they'll sit back and reflect and read through the coroner's rulings and see if there are other steps that maybe they want to take or they can take or other avenues where people who maybe were involved in it and trying to cover things up are going to be brought to task. But for them, that's heroic what they've done. 27 years of their lives for their loved ones and they get that back. You hold your hat off to them because it would have been much easier for them to have thrown the towel in. But as Bill Kenwright said at one of the services, you don't take on Scouse mothers, you don't take on the Scouse women - they're much more determined than anybody, so congratulations to the Scouse women and men. Congratulations to everybody of the Hillsborough families and the people who helped them get the verdict that they've got. There are not enough plaudits and I'm not intelligent enough to get enough words out to describe how heroic they have been.

[Arl arse]

Kenny has been impeccable from day one, he's pure class.

[Furmedge]

I've cried today. I've cried a lot. Seeing Margaret Aspinall's beaming but humble smile made me weep. Seeing a photo of Anne Williams made me sob. Seeing the families on the steps singing YNWA made me blubber.

 

Most of all, the lot of them made me proud. Proud of their refusal to take what 'the establishment' force fed them. Proud, that for 27 years they got what they set out to do, expose the lies. Their will to fight and challenge, and remain dignified will go down in history.

 

YNWA xxx

[suzy]

Kenny has been impeccable from day one, he's pure class.

 

I was wondering if we'd hear from Kenny today. He was always a legend but even more so for what he did after Hillsborough.

[General Dryness]

I bawled my eyes out reading David Conn's article today. The depravity of South Yorkshire Police knew no bounds. I don't think much has changed.

This one finished me. Glad I'm in an office on my own.

 

"David Lackey, a man trapped in pen three, recalled Thomas Howard, 39, a married father of three who worked in a chemicals factory, crushed next to him, saying repeatedly: “My son, my son.” Howard’s 14-year-old son, Tommy Jr, died with him."

[General Dryness]

You just want to give her a big cuddle, don't you.

 

I'm not a religious man, but if there is a God, I hope he blesses her and the rest of them who never gave up.

[Vincent Vega]

Adam was a good friend of mine, used to play in the same football team as him. That news has gutted me.

God knows how it's effected his family.

Are you from Runcorn then mate? It's really sad that Adam's dad Eddie didn't live to see this day.

[Vincent Vega]

South Yorkshire police will hopefully get what's coming to them, but it's good to see West Midlands police are being investigated by the IPCC as well for their part in the cover up.

 

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sport/football/football-news/hillsborough-disaster-role-west-midlands-11243172

[Arl arse]

Are you from Runcorn then mate? It's really sad that Adam's dad Eddie didn't live to see this day.

Yes mate, Eddie was the coach of our footy team, sound fella as well. We all feared he had died at Hillsborogh along with Adam, but he thankfully pulled through after being in a coma. He was obviously never the same.

[Arl arse]

[Anubis]

This one finished me. Glad I'm in an office on my own.

 

"David Lackey, a man trapped in pen three, recalled Thomas Howard, 39, a married father of three who worked in a chemicals factory, crushed next to him, saying repeatedly: “My son, my son.” Howard’s 14-year-old son, Tommy Jr, died with him."

 

It's an incredible piece of writing. A must read, even though it's gut wrenching. I think everyone who has read it today has been where you are, mate.