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Massive lie by a massive c*nt.

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Yeah, but what do the rank and file think?

Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson says he needs to bring in his own players like Harry Redknapp at Tottenham Roy Hodgson feels the Liverpool side he inherited from Rafael Benítez is starting to feel like his own with every passing game, but admits it would take an influx of players akin to that overseen by Harry Redknapp at Tottenham before he can make his own mark on the club. By Rory Smith 11:00PM GMT 19 Dec 2010 After a turbulent opening six months at Anfield — a period in which the 63 year-old acknowledges he struggled to transmit his beliefs to his new squad, suggesting he “could not identify with a lot of things that happened on the pitch” — Hodgson appears to have settled on both system and personnel. He is likely to begin his work shaping the squad to his own wishes as soon as the transfer window opens in January —selling Milan Jovanovic could be his first task with Cologne and Hamburg interested — but insists this will not be a Liverpool team cast in his own image for some time to come. “It is starting to feel more like my side,” the Liverpool manager said. “But it is still a team that I have not put together. I want to make that clear. I took the team over and I have not made that many changes. I brought in [Paul] Konchesky to play left back, Raul Meireles to replace [Javier] Mascherano and Joe Cole came in at the same time as me as well as Christian Poulsen. The other players I have inherited. “I think I would be a good comparison with Tottenham because Harry [Redknapp] came in there just as I came into Fulham so he will just be completing three years and he has brought in a lot of players. So to really call it my team, I would have had to make a slightly bigger impact on those who have been brought in. “I am more than happy to take responsibility for this squad but it takes a coach more than five or six months to make his stamp on a club. I am hoping we will do some good business in transfer windows to come and then I will be able say, ‘If you don’t like it then I have no one to blame but myself’.” Wigan’s Charles N’Zogbia and Aston Villa’s Ashley Young are possible targets. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/liverpool/8212773/Liverpool-manager-Roy-Hodgson-says-he-needs-to-bring-in-his-own-players-like-Harry-Redknapp-at-Tottenham.html

“if the game against Blackpool was decided on boxing-style statistical information we would have won. But it isn't."

All the talk was that we were demanding £30 million up front. Whether we got it or not who knows? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/liverpool/5961234/Liverpool-meet-Real-Madrid-to-thrash-out-Xabi-Alonso-transfer.html

Secret files on the Hillsborough disaster could be made public 10 years early after a request from the home secretary. Jacqui Smith has asked South Yorkshire Police to release the documents, which contain detailed evidence of what happened during the tragedy in 1989. It could help families of the 96 victims who want a new inquiry. Ms Smith has met South Yorkshire Chief Constable Meredydd Hughes to discuss the records. Joan Traynor, 76, who lost her two sons, Christopher, 26, and Kevin, 16, in the disaster, welcomed the move. She said: "At last something might be done and at last there might be a chance that the truth could be out. "After years of campaigning I feel like something might happen. We have felt nothing but injustice and the only way we can get justice for our loved ones is if these files are made public and a fresh inquiry is opened." Inquest ruling The files contain evidence from the police, local council and the ambulance service. Documents like this are usually not made public for 30 years, but the home secretary has intervened two decades after the disaster. Evidence was examined during the original inquest, in which the coroner ruled all victims had sustained their fatal injuries by 3.15pm, based on advice from pathologists. As a result, he did not hear any evidence of what happened after that point - but many bereaved families believe their loved ones could have still been alive and they want a fresh inquiry. Culture secretary Andy Burnham was heckled as campaigners shouted "Justice for the 96" at the Hillsborough memorial service on Wednesday. Following the service, he called for "full disclosure" of all evidence on the Hillsborough disaster. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8006744.stm

That first game after Hillsborough at Goodison was a help. I think it was at that game where they completed the linked scarfs between the two grounds but I was in bits so I'm not certain. As for Duckenfield, I couldn't hate him more.

A great article by Lawton in the Independent today: James Lawton: I was a witness to the needless death of 96 football fans. The memory still sickens me On the 20th anniversary of tragedy at Hillsborough, The Independent's chief sports writer explains why the police have a case to answer It never goes away. The waste of it, the dereliction of duty, the callousness implicit in the cheap branding of innocent people who died so unnecessarily and the cover-up which started when Mrs Thatcher brought flowers the following morning – and bought the stories so carefully edited by the men who had failed so abjectly to protect 96 lives. The deepest horror, 20 years on, is still the one that came, with sickening clarity even for someone untrained in policing or public safety, before a single life was lost. You had only to stand outside the crush of the Leppings Lane end – as I did 20 minutes or so before the start of the game – to know that so many lives were in terrible danger and that, inevitably, some would be lost. Maybe, worst of all, was the sense that nobody seemed to care. A group of policemen and women, without deployment, stood in a circle, talking among themselves. It was surreal, a nightmare from which there could be no awakening. A mounted policeman tried to wheel, unsuccessfully, in space that was being filled more tightly with every second as more people were pressed down on the gate, and the flash of panic across his face was, you knew the moment you saw it, something you would never forget. It told you that in that hellish side of a football ground no one's safety could be guaranteed. There was no control, no leadership, no apparent awareness of the odds rising so swiftly, so inexorably, against the possibility of averting a tragedy. Now, after all the research and irrefutable evidence and documentation, the public knows, if they care to, the anatomy of this tragedy. They know of the failures of the police, their deceits, their refusal to officially acknowledge any direct responsibility for what happened, and the lack of success in the private prosecution of the commander who was allowed to retire, without the disciplinary action recommended by the official Taylor report, on grounds of ill-health and on a full pension – shortly before taking a job as secretary of his local golf club. But if such facts can still engender rage, if the refusal of home secretaries and police authorities to say, yes, there was a terrible negligence, and we need to say sorry to all those who lost loved ones, can only be seen as shockingly insensitive cruelties, there is also a more personal angst for anyone who happened to be there. If you knew it was going to happen, how could you simply take the advice of the policewoman and walk to the other side of the ground, where the Nottingham Forest fans had not been herded into dangerously overcrowded places, then walk into the press box and sit next to a colleague and point to the Leppings Lane end and say, "People are going to die over there"? No, you were as powerless as so many of the leaderless policemen and the dedicated ambulance drivers who, before it was too late, were denied access to the football pitch that had become a killing field. But maybe you could have screamed to the heavens against this horror created by insufficient care and professionalism. Instead, you tried to do your job as a reporter. You went down on to the field and saw the pathetic attempts to make stretchers of advertising hoardings. You said to yourself that you could indeed do what was urged upon you by one tear-stained man... "tell the world what really happened... everyone who has died here deserves that". Down the years you tried to be faithful to that command. You drove to Liverpool to give evidence to the West Midlands Police who were conducting an "independent" inquiry. You went into the witness box in Leeds Crown Court in the private prosecution but you felt useless then because all you could really say was that you knew it was going to happen, and if you knew why didn't the police know, and why didn't they react professionally. Why were they so inert? Why were stories planted in The Sun that drunken fans robbed the dead and urinated on first-aid workers, stories that made you sick in the stomach if you had been out on the field and seen the desperate, untutored efforts to help the dead and the dying. While the ambulances were held up by police because a "riot" was going on, those makeshift stretchers were made and there were beseeching attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. In the absence of any form of official apology, which is the last scandal of Hillsborough, the steady seepage of truth is no doubt a small source of comfort to the bereaved. The worst of the lies have been held up to the light and been ridiculed. But this does nothing to lessen the need for that apology. Closure cannot come without it because it is one thing to know what happened, and see that it is plain to all dispassionate witnesses, and quite another to wait so long for such a concession from those who out of self-interest tried hardest to deny it. In so many ways, those who have argued most passionately for the dead of Hillsborough have been vindicated. They have kept faith with the memory of their loved ones and they have exposed terrible injustice. All that is left is the need for a breath of atonement. Twenty years is long enough to wait but then if you were there and powerless it is easy to understand why some will keep up their hopes until the day they die. http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/footbal...me-1668852.html

Never forgotten YNWA JFT96

I read this morning that the BBC are employing Mackenzie yet again to appear in a celebrity edition of the Apprentice for Sport Relief. He's definitely got friends in high places in the BBC. It seems that the more complaints the BBC receive the more they employ the c*nt.

He was down at the front of the Paddock near the dug-out last Sunday when the youth team were parading the cup and then climbed over the barrier and went off with them down the tunnel.

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