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BBC1 10:25pm Tonight 9th September. BBC1 NW & Yorkshire

Just finished watching it; it didn't really say anything particularly new or groundbreaking, was more a refresher in readiness for the report on Wednesday I think.

The reporter who wrote the Sun article was interviewed; his POV was that he wrote the story but had wanted it to be clear that it was only the alleged allegations, that in his opinion it was right and proper for the news to state the allegations, but in such a way that the other side could be heard too. Apparently he was deeply unhappy about McKenzie putting 'the truth' as the headline, but in those days journalists didn't question editors apparently.

They also interviewed a copper who was there who felt all aggrieved that the police force was to blame and basically said it should be about reconciliation now as opposed to a blame game. Fucking joke frankly.

It did raise the question about which documents the public would get to see, and also whether the independent panel have really had access to all the documents.
 
Will there be a thread about the imminent Hillsborough Inquiry findings? , I was in Liverpool at the time and our Community Arts Training Centre became a focal point for grieving as we made the Banner with the 96 cups on it, that went in the Cathedral for the Memorial Service..
 
It didn't really tell me anything I didn't already know, that programme, although I thought the copper who was torn up by it all was a good interview. I don't think I've ever heard a policeman acknowledging that Duckenfield was wrong before. His 'this is a time for reconciliation' line was naive but there you go.

I'm interested to see what tomorrow's release of the documents brings but I'm not overly optimistic tbh.
 
Every time the disaster gets an airing on the telly I always know at the next home match I'm going to have to argue with twats who reckon the families are greedy fuckers who just want a bit of compo. I should probably just ignore the wankers but I used to work with the cousin of one of the victims so I tend to take it personally. Wednesday fans are generally a decent bunch - certainly superior to the rape apologists across the city - but for some reason they seem to think that anyone with questions or grievances about the disaster is attacking the club and by extension them (which is obviously bollocks) and you get a knee jerk response. I know this isn't really relevant to the discussion but felt the need for a bit of a rant.

As you were...
 
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