13 Feb 2012 16:54:01
Although this too is a football issue, and to all intents and purposes this should be put to bed and forgotten about, I have thought long and hard and feel I should put the following opinion out there...
Regarding the media treatment of the Evra/Suarez debacle. Does anyone agree that the mainstream, sensationalist UK media is constantly giving this issue legs because of the ordered release of Government papers regarding the Hillsborough disaster?
By vilifying Liverpool FC so aggressively on a daily basis, are they trying to soften the impact that the eventual release of this information will have upon themselves? By trying to demonise Liverpool, it's players, the manager, and trying to get every bit of mud to stick, come the day that the papers become public, are they trying to back the club into a corner so that the attention is somehow diverted when Liverpool FC, the families who lost loved ones, and the fans eventually get their day to speak out?
It was passed back in October 2011 following heavy petitioning that these papers should be released uncensored. This will put journalists, also current and former government ministers in the spotlight, especially seeing as these documents must be sensitive as they have been kept secret for nearly 23 years.
By making Liverpool FC appear to be "complaining unjustly against everything", this approach by the media (and the people it serves to protect) may be intended to unseat the eventual public outcry, thus making people not pay as much attention as they should, giving sparse coverage when the time arrives, and sweeping it under the carpet quickly to avoid a backlash on the government and the media themselves.
Calculated pre-emptive arse covering? Or am I reading too much into it?
Supasub
And don't forget a lot of non Liverpool fans signed that petition and the other more recent Kevin Williams one as well.
You may have been in the wrong about recent events and you have looked bad in a lot of peoples eyes, its a sensitive topic in our modern multi-cultural society and i for one am fed up of hearing about Evra and Suarez.
But Hillsborough is a different issue and i feel that all decent football fans support you and also want the truth to come out.
That sort of thing could have happened at any football ground in the 80's, it could have been the fans of any club, it was a ticking bomb waiting to go off.
Thats why all decent fans of a certain age support you, we've all been to those grounds, remember the fences and the attitudes of the various police forces at the time.
You have a lot of support in this issue, and they may try and sweep it under the carpet again but we, the fans, should stick together and force it all out.
frankyscouse