The governments decision to throw open the papers and release the information about the tragic events at Hillsborough, has to be welcomed by football fans everywhere. this is to important to become an "inter club" thing, but I can only speak from my own experiences. Cardiff fans had a bad reputation in the past fair enough, but have cleaned their act up considerably over the last few years, yet they are often the victims of "over zealous" policing to this day, and we are not alone in this, and a lot of the time the police cause more trouble than they prevent............but they are always held up as "perfect".....................OK I know they have a difficult job to do, but at the end of the day they are only human and can make mistakes, but they are always held up as beyond reproach, and any fan who has travelled away will know how untrue this is. Full disclosure of the tragic events will not only give the Liverpool fans chance to finally resolve this issue. And if, as most people believe the police don't come out as "whiter than white" then it can only be a good thing, don't get me wrong I'm not advocating a "witch hunt" as the police have a difficult job to do.............but if it helps the police clean up their act a bit, and it helps the media and the courts to finally realise there ARE two sides to every story, and the police aren't automatically right and the fans aren't always wrong, well it will be a good thing for fans everywhere....................just a shame that so many fans had to tragically perish to get some honesty and openess
I think the thing the police are afraid of wrt to Hillsborough, is quite simple, most of them didnt recognise it as a disaster waiting to happen until it was to late, as you know Proph tense situations can be difficult to deal with and some bad decisions will be made by High and Middle management, the big plus that came from Hillsborough are our Football grounds are much safer places now, you only have to remember the Old Grangend with the wooden planks, that was a disaster waiting to happen, and sadly did at Bradford. I just hope nobody gets hung out to dry on the enquiry and that they focus on the valuable lessons learned on that fateful day, however the relatives will not see it quite like this.
"...us the people well we are the **** on the shoe of the justice system" Not if you stay on the right side of the law. One wonders if the Wolfy Smith of Aberdare is so quick to criticize the miners who impaled an innocent taxi driver with a concrete block back in 1985. Nothing is black and white - good and bad on most sides of everything is my experience.
