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Adrian Tempany

7 years

My book about the hijack of football, and the real cost: shortlisted for the Orwell Prize, Football Book of the Year, & Gordon Burn prize

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

5 years

Tonight I'll raise a glass to the people who died around me on the Leppings Lane, to the dead man I carried across the pitch, the families I've been privileged to know, and the survivors who are my friends. The best of people #jft96

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3 years

Klopp's mum died on 19 January. Incredible how he's held it together in public as well as he has

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2 years

#Hillsborough 97 people died. One man jumped in front of a train after a mate he gave his ticket to was killed. At least 3 survivors killed themselves before 2019. One of my mates took his own life in 2021. 3 other survivors have taken their own lives since Paris. It's not banter

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4 months

Oliver doesn't just fail to award a penalty, he gives a goal-kick, indicating he hasn't seen any contact on the ball by a City player. So it's a clear and obvious error. So why isn't VAR calling him over to the screen?

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Should Chelsea have been awarded a penalty for a handball by Jack Grealish? 🤔 #BBCFootball #FACup #MCICHE

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11 months

I see Rupert Murdoch is finally handing over the reins. My own Rupert story... in 2009 I wrote a piece for The Observer about Hillsborough, to mark the 20th anniversary. I wrote about my own experience, but also interviewed others whose lives had been changed 1/

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2 years

Man City's terrible PR - failing to condemn their fans' Hillsborough chants & accusing Klopp of 'borderline xenophobia' - is symptomatic of City being owned by a regime that doesn't tolerate free speech, a free media, and dissent

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1 year

Fake rivalry alert... When Newcastle and Liverpool walked out to play the 1974 FA Cup final, the Geordies had won 11 major trophies, Liverpool 10. When the teams walk out at St James' Park on Sunday, the Geordies will have won 11 major trophies, Liverpool 50

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2 years

@ChampionsLeague My experience at Stade de France on Saturday was the 2nd worst I’ve had at a football match, after Hillsborough. It’s difficult to convey the disdain of French police for the welfare of supporters outside the stadium - LFC fans, Madrid fans and neutrals 1/...

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11 months

5/ In 2021, a friend of mine who survived the crush in pen 3 took his own life, worn down by decades of lies and the denial of justice. The English courts and corrupt judges and Tory MPs and Rupert, they all played a big part in that

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@AdrianTempany

3 years

My dad died on Thursday. He was such a good man. One of the last things we did together was go to the driving range and have a nice pint of Guinness. Back at the range today, Dad

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

5 years

Mate of mine was watching his daughter's football match in Formby yesterday when Jurgen turned up. The girls mobbed him. He took it all in his stride

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

3 years

#Hillsborough thread One of the great unknowns, to this day, concerns the whereabouts of Chief Supt David Duckenfield on 15 April 1989, from around late morning to 2pm. These were crucial hours, when - as match commander - he should have been leading the best part of... 1/

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2 years

So many times in my life I've been proud to be a Liverpool fan and be associated with scousers and the city of Liverpool. This weekend was yet another priceless victory - an FA Cup won and middle England's royalists frothing at the mouth. Up the Reds

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2 years

Champions League Final… A lot of the UK public are now waking up to the reality of the lawlessness going on around the Stade de France last Saturday. The French govt are blaming hordes of ticketless Liverpool fans. The reality is altogether more problematic, for France 1/

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2 years

#Hillsborough It was a minority of City fans who booed the minute's silence today, so as bad as it is, we shouldn't condemn City fans en masse. But those saying 'Well, LFC fans boo the national anthem'… Yeah, after being shafted by the English establishment for 33 years, we do

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Adrian Tempany

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2 years

Great to see a proper football club win the league title again. Congratulations @CelticFC

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@AdrianTempany

2 years

We regret our presenter Adrian Chiles didn't challenge Jonathan Goldberg QC's appalling slander of Liverpool fans at Hillsborough in 2021. We regret we didn't challenge Martin Tyler's untruths today about Hillsborough. We regret, we apologise, but we do not improve our journalism

BBC News Press Team

@BBCNewsPR

2 years

Interview on @BBCr4today We regret that we did not robustly challenge Martin Tyler on a comment which appeared to link Hillsborough & hooliganism. Martin has since apologised for the comment & clarified that these were separate examples & he did not intend to conflate the two.

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11 months

4/ Murdoch's influence was deployed in 1989 to smear not only those who died at Hillsborough, but those who survived, and it ended up killing some of those who survived. And not just Ian

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3 years

Hillsborough should be taught in law schools, and in school history lessons, for an insight into how a corrupt judiciary delivers corrupt justice #TheRealAnne

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2 years

Every Liverpool fan who goes to Paris should send Pep Guardiola a postcard. He's bound to be wondering what we're up to

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

5 months

I see Hillsborough trending again. Thing is, Hillsborough happened in an analogue era - pre-social media. If it had happened in a digital era, the truth would've been out within a month, not 23 years. Now, it's a lie repeated by a social media generation not even born in 1989

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@AdrianTempany

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3/ Ian tried to get his life on track, but struggled with depression, anxiety and rage about the lives told by The Sun, under their infamous front-page story The Truth. In 2007, after Kelvin Mackenzie appeared on Question Time still lying about Hillsborough, Ian hanged himself

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2/ One woman I interviewed appeared in the piece anonymously. She had been married to "Ian", a man who survived the crush in pen 3, but lost his mate who he'd gone to the match with. Ian was devastated by this, and by his own experience

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Adrian Tempany

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3 years

#Anne Good to see West Midlands Police' role in Hillsborough cover-up exposed here. Their team was led by Det Supt Beechey, who was at the time suspended from operational duties pending an investigation into the dubious practices of his notorious West Mids Serious Crime Squad 1/3

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3 years

#Anne Nice touch with the farmer helping Anne and Steve out with petrol. The local people in Sheffield were great that afternoon - opening their doors to fans to phone loved ones, making us cups of tea. Shoulders to cry on

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2 years

#Panorama Paris was a bleak, brutal night, with disaster averted only by the restraint of LFC fans in the face of extreme provocation. Then the police lied about us. Three Hillsborough survivors have since taken their own lives. Uefa need to be held to account

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@AdrianTempany

3 years

#Anne For viewers who found episode 1 upsetting, and are perhaps unsure whether to watch the next 3 episodes, it does become less harrowing - the tone becomes more a tale of humanity and love. It's a subtle, faithful tribute to an amazing woman

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

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The two commentators on TNT slamming the Ayew sending off because 'fans deserve better'. This from a broadcaster that thinks nothing of fans being dragged 200 miles for a 12.30 kickoff. The pair of them just didn't shut up all game, absolute cliche factory #CRYLIV

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2 years

27/ Our restraint, much of it influenced by what many of us endured at Hillsborough, averted a potential disaster. Uefa must be held to account, and the French authorities. Thanks to all the journos, broadcasters and other prominent voices for reporting what they saw. ENDS

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Adrian Tempany

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7 months

There's an unsustainable tension now between the quality of the Premier League - both as a competition and the football it offers - and the officiating. It's getting harder to sell the product when Howard Webb's PGMOL and VAR are tarnishing it every week

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Adrian Tempany

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1 year

There have been many days in my life I've been proud to call myself a Liverpool fan and stand in solidarity with the people of Liverpool. Today was one of those days. Soul, conscience, backbone. Up the Scouse republic

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

3 years

#Anne Tonight we saw two judges denying Anne Williams a judicial review in 1993 on the grounds that it would be asking too much of witnesses to relive that awful day. So families & survivors had to keep on reliving it for another two decades until the truth was finally delivered

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@AdrianTempany

3 years

Adrian Chiles... are you aware that the lies peddled about Hillsborough by a QC on your show today were debunked by the Hillsborough Independent Panel in 2012, and rejected by the jury at the 2014-16 inquests? SYP even admitted after the Panel report that they were lies

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

2 years

#Hillsborough Tomorrow marks 33 years since 97 people were unlawfully killed by South Yorkshire Police. In the last 12 months alone, at least two survivors have taken their own lives. The death toll continues, because the injustice continues, after 33 years

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Adrian Tempany

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3 years

In #Anne we heard about blood-alcohol levels being taken from all of the deceased. It would have been more appropriate if they had been taken from those who were in charge that day, and who went missing from their posts in the build-up to the 3pm kick-off

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3 years

Good to see Germany's 50+1 rule making headlines. But it's a model steeped in the German socio-economic system - of stakeholders & not passive consumers, of civic pride, of vigilance against the abuse of power by rogue individuals. The UK has forgotten the value in these ideas

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

7 years

Hillsborough: tomorrow we'll hear who will be charged with the unlawful killing of 96 people in 1989. 15 people are under investigation

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@AdrianTempany

2 years

Kelvin MacKenzie calling paramedics and nurses "vile shitbags". These are people who save lives, for meagre salaries. MacKenzie is paid handsomely to tell lies that cost lives - Hillsborough survivors have taken theirs, broken by decades of the lies KM did so much to publicise

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

2 years

Hopefully this will be the end of Martin Tyler commenting on Liverpool games, if nothing else

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3 years

@LucyGoBag 2/2... you cling to truth. It's imprinted on your mind. But in the face of an establishment narrative, shouted through the loud-hailer of a Tory media, you can begin to doubt your own experience, & even your sanity. This heaps injury on trauma. People need to be ready for this

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

3 years

Today South Yorkshire Police apologised for Hillsborough and their lies. It was a cover-up that destroyed people's lives. I wrote this for The Observer after the inquest verdict of unlawful killing in 2016 - to give an idea of the real cost of the cover-up

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Adrian Tempany

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4 years

Best wishes to Dejan Lovren. I know Hillsborough campaigners who gave a talk to Klopp's squad last year about the disaster and the fight for justice. All of them were respectful and engaged, especially Lovren

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3 years

@LucyGoBag Intriguing thread. I'm a Hillsborough survivor. My witness statement, critical of the authorities, was dismissed as the work of a fantasist and an irresponsible citizen by the authorities. When you've been through a trauma, as millions of us have with covid... 1/2

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6 years

Still laughing at German football post-Russia? Man City are charging £750 for a mid-range ST in 2018/19, Bayern Munich £125 for a ST in their safe standing section. "Football in the Allianz Arena should be available to watch for everyone in our society," Bayern told their STHs

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2 years

I'm not from Liverpool, but I've always believed supporting the club means buying into the values enshrined by the man who built the modern LFC. @spiritofshankly uphold those. They were right on Hicks and Gillett & they're right to be concerned about Qatari interest in the club

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4 months

TNT studio presenter describing Man City as 'European giants'. They've won the same amount of European Cups as Ceausescu's Steaua Bucharest, with dirtier money

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6 years

Since 1966 the Germans have played in 7 world cup finals. Their top clubs are mostly owned by fans, not spivs, ticket prices are cheap and the atmosphere is great. Yeah, let's all laugh at the Germans

(((Dan Hodges)))

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OK, I’m going to take the bullet. I think the delight at Germany going out has become OTT. Respect to Sweden and S.Korea. But we need to grow up a bit. The anti-German/Argentina narrative is getting a bit tired.

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Adrian Tempany

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3 years

Credit to @alanshearer for calling out the abysmal refereeing in the PL today on #MOTD2 , & pointing the finger at Mike Riley. Riley was a shit referee for years and is now running a poor stable of refs, with no scrutiny of his management. Paul Tierney was a joke today

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Adrian Tempany

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4 months

Remembering today my friend Rob White, who lost his life to the trauma and injustice of Hillsborough in May 2021. Rest in peace you gentle giant

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Adrian Tempany

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3 months

It's a good job Anthony Taylor is an Altrincham fan, otherwise I think serious questions might have to be asked about his refereeing of Liverpool games

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

6 years

David Conn has been superb on Hillsborough, but I do wish The Guardian, and other papers, would stop filing Hillsborough stories in the Sport section of the paper. As a mate of mine, a fellow survivor, always says: would you put a report about Lockerbie in the Travel supplement?

David Conn

@david_conn

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Hillsborough: Judge rejects application by ex South Yorkshire police Ch Supt David Duckenfield to stop his prosecution for 95 counts of manslaughter. Trial due to start January 14 - almost 30 years after the disaster.

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3 years

Spare a thought for David Duckenfield, who was so traumatised at #Hillsborough that when he was finally dragged into court in 2015 he couldn't remember where he was for two hours around lunchtime on 15/4/89 when he should have been commanding SYP's operation. Terrible thing, PTSD

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6 years

The same David Blunkett who responded to the Taylor report into Hillsborough in August 1989 by claiming that "Liverpool fans had got off lightly". The man is a charlatan

☮️ John Fielder - #NeverAgain for anyone

@JohnFielder1

6 years

David Blunkett rolled out today in the Express and Daily Fail (good Labour papers) saying Labour has 7 days to sort out Antisemitism or it will fade into obscurity. You know, just like it did in #GE17 (and the council elections, and .....) #WeAreCorbyn #JC4PM

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4 years

I have sympathy for fellow journos at a decent paper at risk of closing. But as a Hillsborough survivor who went to his Dr for help on 19 April 1989, the day The Sun printed The Truth, and got told 'It looks like Liverpool fans were to blame, doesn't it?' I say #dontbuythesun

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3 years

Klopp: “The last two elections, the first with Donald Trump and then with Boris Johnson, that’s really a bad sign for the whole world… Because everybody knew beforehand that it would not work but we still let it happen as a society. I cannot believe that"

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1 year

#BernardIngham accompanied Thatcher around Hillsborough the day after South Yorkshire Police killed nearly 100 people. Then he blamed the disaster on Liverpool fans, treating the bereaved, survivors and the truth with a contempt he maintained until today. A weapons-grade wanker

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3 years

#Hillsborough Judge rules today that there is no case to answer for the authorities responsible for one of the biggest miscarriages of justice in British history. Their crimes just an 'admin exercise'. What a rotten, corrupt, broken country

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3 years

#Anne West Mids are crucial to Hillsborough cover-up. They helped conceal the truth about Kevin's death, and falsified many survivors' witness accounts, including mine and @NickBraley1 . Important to grasp that the cover-up was never solely the work of South Yorkshire Police 2/3

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4 years

Good to see Andy Burnham getting due credit. In 2009 he urged the PM Gordon Brown to open a new inquiry into Hillsborough. The govt debated the issue, and many ministers opposed it - notably Jack Straw. Burnham stood his ground, and Brown backed him. And we got the truth

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#Anne I even told WMP in July 1989 that people were alive at 3.40pm & in my opinion might have been saved if the medical response had been better. They refused to put proper detail in my statement and told me my account was worthless and would not go forward to the inquests 3/3

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

7 years

Hillsborough: A momentous day. Going out for a pint now with a bunch of heroes who fought for years to help make this happen

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8 years

BBC News at Ten describing Tory assault on NHS as 'efficiency measures' is outrageous. This was the best health system in the world in 2010

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3 years

#Hillsborough thread Yesterday's trial of 3 suspects for the cover-up collapsed on a technicality - Judge Davis ruling that their alleged falsification of evidence was submitted to the Taylor inquiry, which was not a course of justice. 1/

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3 years

Hillsborough has now officially claimed its 97th victim. 32 years, no one held accountable, and people are still dying from this disaster

Liverpool FC

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A statement from the family of Andrew Devine:

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7 years

Kelvin MacKenzie is poison. In 2007 a Hillsborough survivor hanged himself after KM was on Question Time blaming the disaster on LFC fans

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5 years

Every year brings a fresh indictment of Thatcherism. How many millions of 20- and 30-somethings in the 80s voted for her, and are now unable to look their kids and grandkids in the eye?

Industrial collapse of Thatcher years led to crime rise, study finds

Research quantifies link between offending and economic factors

www.theguardian.com

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

8 years

Rude is not attending a memorial to 96 of your 'subjects' who died at Hillsborough, but your husband goes to war criminal Hirohito's funeral

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Publicly announcing you're refusing an honour from the Queen is rude & disrespectful. If you don't want one, privately turn it down.

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3 years

#Hillsborough The judge who recently ruled that the suspects in the Hillsborough cover-up had no case to answer - a ruling made on extremely dubious grounds – has just been promoted by the Queen. Call me shocked

Deanna Matthews

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3 years

And just like that, another one gets their promotion…

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Adrian Tempany

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6 years

Five years ago today we lost Anne Williams. Anne lost her son Kevin at Hillsborough. She exposed a monumental injustice, inspired countless campaigners, and never lost her dignity. She was everything the establishment who cheated her were not. RIP Anne

Obituary: Anne Williams - the mum who refused to give up on Hillsborough and inspired a city -...

Anne Williams: 6 February 1951 - 18 April 2013

www.liverpoolecho.co.uk

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3 years

#Hillsborough I've suspected for years that we'd be stitched up by the English courts, and today we have been. Accountability, now? We create the definitive online archive - where the truth, the culprits, and the corruption are spelt out online, in perpetuity - under our control

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@BBCNewsPR @BBCr4today We spent 23 years painfully and forensically exposing Hillsborough, and one of the biggest cover-ups in British history, doing a job the mainstream media - in large part - should've done, and didn't. We present you with the incontrovertible truth, and you treat it as an opinion

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8 years

Happy Birthday Anne Williams. A Hillsborough mum who exposed the establishment, & never let their cynicism spoil the lovely person she was

Friday Nights Chippy Night

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8 years

'Never give in and never give up' she said and she never did Happy Birthday #AnneWilliams You are sadly missed #JFT96 #LFC #Hillsborough

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@TimWillitts I didn't mean VAR should have intervened to persuade Oliver to award a corner rather than a goal-kick. By awarding a GK, Oliver has indicated he's seen no contact whatsoever by the City wall. There's your clear and obvious error, and VAR's moment to do its job

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3 years

Chelsea fans taunting Hammers with 'Champions of Europe, you'll never be that'. You never know, West Ham might one day be taken over by a billionaire who's plundered half his country's natural resources

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All these Newcastle fans moaning that Marriner played 8 mins of injury time after 5 mins was added by the 4th official, after Newcastle had spent 88 mins of normal time feigning injury and booting the ball away. Robbed? You went home with a receipt

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6 years

Hillsborough is now recognised as one of the largest cover-ups in British history, and yet the force appointed to investigate it - whose officers manipulated and fabricated survivors' testimony, and heavily influenced the discredited first inquests – get away scot-free

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26/ In my opinion, French police and Uefa nearly caused a disaster. I can only report what I witnessed, & I saw no misbehaviour by Liverpool fans. What I saw were thousands of fans, mostly Reds but also Madrid fans and neutrals, behaving impeccably under appalling treatment

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2 years

The enduring, toxic legacy of the Hillsborough lies told by David Duckenfield, Paul Middup, Kelvin Mackenzie, Bernard Ingham, Jonathan Goldberg, the West Midlands Police, & covered up by numerous bent judges, played out in the chaos at last month's Champions League final in Paris

David Conn

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2 years

Truly shocking: French police ‘intelligence’ on Liverpool fans before Paris final linked Hillsborough with hooliganism, leading to riot police being deployed in force.

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Hillsborough was Saturday 15 April. The next Wednesday I went to my doctor's for help. I didn't realise that on that morning, The Sun led the news with 'The Truth'. Doctor told me "It looks like Liverpool fans are to blame, doesn't it?" And I didn't get any help #IBlockedTheSun

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4 years

The Man City ruling is a bad day for football – a green light for dirty money to flood into the game from the world's dodgiest regimes. Absolutely stinks

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1 year

Why would booing the national anthem next Saturday put Liverpool "in a difficult spot"? We make no bones about the fact we're not a bunch of cap-doffing, brain-dead serfs. I'll be booing so hard I'll have to watch the rest of the match with my tongue stuck in a jar of honey

Mike Keegan

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1 year

EXCLUSIVE: Premier League want clubs to play national anthem over Coronation weekend, along with various other acknowledgements. May put Liverpool (home on Sky v Brentford) in difficult spot given previous booing and depth of feeling. Story:

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3 years

A Tory government and the police involved in a cover-up? They've got form

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8 years

Hillsborough: new ITV documentary on Monday 12th, 10.40pm - IPCC tried to stop it, SYP & West Mids coppers not happy about it. Don't miss it

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3 years

If you believe that public officials are legally bound to tell the truth in public inquiries, you're mistaken. To change that absurd legal loophole, support #HillsboroughLawNow - and rebalance the scales of justice in favour of the public, not the powerful

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2 years

Really choked to hear today that Mark George KC has died. Mark was one of the barristers who did such a superb job on behalf of many of the Hillsborough families at the inquests in Warrington b/w 2014-16, and by extension, a great job for survivors too 1/

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6 years

#Hillsborough Thoughts tonight are with all the families, their lost loved ones, and the survivors - especially all my great friends who've been through so much and are still standing tall. See you on Monday/the other side

The impact of the Hillsborough disaster on survivors' lives

Twenty years after Britain's worst stadium disaster, Adrian Tempany and five other survivors describe the impact Hillsborough has had on their lives

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Two years ago next week the British public decided to elect Boris Johnson despite abundant evidence that he was a racist, a homophobe, a self-serving idiot and habitual liar. Working out well, isn't it?

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@CraigHope_DM Klopp shouted in a linesman's ear, he didn't execute 81 people in a single day last March

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22/ Merseyside Police are spot on in describing behaviour of overwhelming majority of LFC fans as exemplary. Fact is, it was only the responsible behaviour of our fans in the face of vindictive and reckless policing that prevented a dire situation becoming deadly

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3 years

#Hillsborough A reminder that English law allows the man who bears primary responsibility for the Hillsborough disaster to admit his liability to an inquest, then deny that responsibility and blame others when he's prosecuted

David Conn

@david_conn

5 years

The audio of David Duckenfield admitting in 2015 at the inquests that his failure to close the tunnel caused the deaths of 96 people, and apologising. Then at his trial his QC said he now admitted no failures, and blamed supporters (the victims) and other police officers.

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35 years on from 15 April 1989 a government will today enact a Hillsborough law requiring a duty of candour from public officials at public inquiries. Incredible that no such law has existed until now, and in 1989 South Yorkshire Police could mislead Taylor inquiry with impunity

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3 years

36/ Cheers, anyway.

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3 years

Never voted Tory. How about you?

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3 years

Cressida Dick: not sacked over Sarah Everard. Today: Prince Andrew will not be charged by the Met. Throw in promotions for judges collapsing Hillsborough trials on dodgy grounds and here's your country

Monsignor it's all Corbyn's fault.

@ItCorbyn

3 years

@AlecHitchman1

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

2 years

Darmanin's lies about the Stade de France shambles reveal that the approach of French police to the game was to treat LFC fans as 'problem fans'. That's it. That's all they had. And when we weren't a problem, they couldn't adapt their tactics. It's what SYP did at Hillsborough

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@AdrianTempany

10 months

One of the worst-officiated games I have seen in watching 50 years of football. Scandalous #TOTLIV

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@AdrianTempany

1 year

@campbellclaret Bernard Ingham accompanied Thatcher around Hillsborough the day after South Yorkshire Police killed nearly 100 people. Then he blamed the disaster on Liverpool fans, treating the bereaved, survivors and the truth with a contempt he maintained until today. A weapons-grade wanker

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10 months

The moment Howard Webb was brought in to oversee PL refs, the game was taking a huge risk with its credibility. He's unfit for purpose, and bringing the game into constant disrepute

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Adrian Tempany

@AdrianTempany

6 years

Hillsborough ... 27 years ago today coroner Stefan Popper was seen cracking open a case of champagne with police officers after the corrupt inquest they oversaw returned a verdict of accidental death. A scene witnessed by a bereaved dad - the police slammed the door in his face

Tides of History

@labour_history

6 years

#OTD 1991. Shock as the Hillsborough inquest returns a verdict of accidental death. The 90-day inquest was the longest running in British history at the time. It would take another 25 years for a court to rule that the victims had been unlawfully killed.

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