Liverpool fans tend to lump together the disasters of Hillsborough and Heysel. Whilst I’ve never sung a Hillsborough song in my life, I see Heysel as fair game. The actions of Liverpool fans lead to the deaths of 39 people, yet after the tragedy, their club washed their hands of the disaster.
They blamed Chelsea fans and didn’t appologise for what happened until 20 years later. The chairman, John Smith, publicly distanced the club from what happened, again, talking of the southern accents heard in the crowd and the apparent number of Chelsea fans there.
Had they accepted the blame, the chants of “murderers” would never have arisen. But their repeated denial and eagerness to blame others lead to outrage amongst other football fans.
The irony of their denial is that throughout this time period they were urging the South Yorkshire Police to accept responsibility of Hillsborough. Justice for the 96, but let’s sweep the 39 under the carpet.
As expected, Manchester United continued on with their great form to thrash struggling Portsmouth 5-0 at Old Trafford.
With Chelsea starting the day with a goal difference which bettered ours by 2, it was really important that we made the most of our chance to score goals.
With Wayne Rooney in the form of his life, you had to believe that was going to be possible.
In light of the debate of whether John Terry should remain England captain following his disgraceful behaviour towards team mate Wayne Bridge, former United player and current United season ticket holder, Andrew Cole, has spoken about the role of the football captain.
Four years before signing for Rangers, where he scored 44 goals in 57 games, Sir Alex Ferguson was trying to get himself a professional deal at St. Johnstone. He wasn’t happy there and kept requesting to leave, with him dumped in the Reserves and out of favour.
Then one afternoon he was selected to play against Rangers which completely changed his life.
Antonio Valencia has made a great start to his United career after joining us from Wigan in the summer.
He was voted by our fans as our best performing player in November and December on the club’s official website.
Valencia has today revealed he didn’t expect to get so much playing time this early on in to his United career and sees this as just the start.
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