I know you have your Hillsborough thread, but please excuse a Saints fan dipping in just to say that my thoughts are with all who suffered in 1989 and beyond. The treatment of the families, of LFC supporters and indeed the community of Liverpool was disgraceful. I think of you at this time of year, and every time I see a kid wearing the shirt with its 97 motif. While it will always move me, I also salute the pride of the City that wouldn't let the bastards get away with their lies. I have often said that no other City would have come together the way Liverpool did and still does, Maybe I should add, that maybe no other City would have needed to; the injustice of it all would have been plain to see. A mate - an Evertonian as it happens -sent me this poem. I'm sure you know it, but nothing much has changed. The Sun's dead sound, it's got birds with big knockers. "Take them in work and decorate your lockers. The sport in it's boss, especially the racin'. And the 'oroscopes tell us the day we're all facin'" ."Don't you remember, you ignorant swine? All the lies they told in eighty-nine. Let me remind you just what they said. We pissed on the bizzies and robbed our own dead. ""But the telly page's sound, they've got bingo and lotto. And on one of the pages there's a nice little motto. Anyway Evo I just didn't know. It doesn't matter now it was so long ago." "It does ****in' matter! It matters a lot. People had children they've no longer got. People had fathers they'll no longer see. They said that I killed them, they said it was me!"" Shut up will you Evo. You're always bangin' on. Hillsborough and justice, all that carry on. Anyway Evo get out of me face. It's only a newspaper in any case." "It's not a newspaper. A newspaper has news. Not made up stories with which to abuse. What they said was "The Truth" were all scurrilous lies. We got no apology. What a surprise!"" All right then Evo what should I buy? "Tell me one, give me the reason why. Which one do you think stands out from the rest? The Mirror, The Echo, which one's the best?"" Don't buy the Sun. It's fit only to burn. Don't buy the Sun. There's nothing you'll learn. I'll say it once more and then I'll be done. Buy what you want but DON'T BUY THE SUN."
