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Fucking ignorant cunt... A retired judge has sparked fury by calling on the Liverpool families involved in the Hillsborough disaster to behave more like the relatives of victims of the Bradford City stadium disaster. Sir Oliver Popplewell, who chaired the public inquiry into the 1985 fire at the Valley Parade stadium that killed 56 people, called on the Liverpool families to look at the "quiet dignity and great courage" relatives in the West Yorkshire city have shown in the years following the tragedy. He made the comments in a letter to The Times following the Commons debate this week calling for all the Cabinet papers on Hillsborough to be released. He said: "The citizens of Bradford behaved with quiet dignity and great courage. They did not harbour conspiracy theories. They did not seek endless further inquiries. "They buried their dead, comforted the bereaved and succoured the injured. They organised a sensible compensation scheme and moved on. "Is there, perhaps, a lesson there for the Hillsborough campaigners?" Home Secretary Theresa May has pledged to release all possible documents on the 1989 FA Cup semi-final tragedy that left 96 Liverpool fans dead. Labour MP Steve Rotheram (Liverpool Walton) told The Times: "How insensitive does somebody have to be to write that load of drivel? "It is unbelievable. To mention other tragedies simply because they are football-related, as if there is some common denominator because they happened in football stadiums, beggars belief. It shows how people right at the top of the Establishment still harbour prejudice and ignorance." Margaret Aspinall, whose son James died in the disaster, told the newspaper: "He ought to be ashamed of himself."