That's a poor choice of words bro and I won't go there out of respect I think the fans could've dealt with it differently today and still made their point. And I'm no royalist btw
I suppose it's hard to understand the thinking of a whole city, I'm a Liverpool fan and have been since I was young but I don't pretend to completely understand the thinking of the City of Liverpool but I do respect it. The government and the royal family are very much linked though so I suppose it's that simple.
They've always had sympathy and respect from the public and football supporters in particular. Respect for Hillsborough is expected. Whenever it's been disrupted the liverpool fans have went crackers about it. None of this 'free speech' that they're starting to peddle, all of a sudden.
Highlighting that as a poor choice of words would get a reaction from some and rightly so I'll leave you be tonight.
It's not though. It was a story in the headlines of sports pages; national anthem will be played at Liverpool v Brentford. Errr, like at the other matches. How is this a story? Look at us everyone, we're outraged.
That's nonsense Liverpool fans were blamed for Hillsborough for many years, the respect now comes from a lot of people who had to backtrack and apologise for riding a bandwagon driven by the government and tabloids that blamed them.
Anyway, quick question... When people say they want a republic what do they mean by that - GB Republic or an English Republic, personally I'd prefer the latter?
It's what the fans decided to do simple as that, their choice now, everyone is getting uptight, tough ****.
The minute silence has always been impeccably observed by football supporters. Large section of fans haven't booed and chanted their way through it.
It was Thatchers thin blue line to blame, harbouring hatred over the miners strike, same as Thatcher taking the report into safety and manipulating it for her own means, to create her own little private war on the social classes.
Changing history there mate. Anyways I've said a few things and tried to explain how I feel and how I see things. I'll leave it there now.
One thing Thatcher knew about the working man was that they liked a drink and their Saturday football standing on the terraces, so she set about changing that, not for the benefit of football (although we could argue it has), but more to deprive the working man of his Saturday habits, by out pricing them or bans. Football fans always have been discriminated against when it comes to the rules in sport.
