Whining Livepudlians

Originally posted by richhoey
I agree with Boris' points on Princess Di and Ken Bigley. Where he (or the writer of the editorial, if not Boris himself) went wrong was in laying in to the grief surrounding Hillsborough. That was 90 odd people, many of them kids and teenagers, dying in one of the worst sporting disasters ever. Given that an independent inquiry had cleared Liverpool's fa ...[text shortened]... wasn't really very sensible to accuse the city of being 'in denial' over their role.

Rich.

The fences ttat trapped and killed were there to prevent invasions of the pitch by fans as frequently happened -many countries still do not have more than a nominal barrier between players and spectators which would have allowed easy escape. And the pressure which killed people came from spectators pushing others.

So how come the fans were not to blame? And if they weren't, who was?

Originally posted by gumbie
I would say the world as a whole is becoming more emotional and less sensible.

I remember several years ago after a terrible incident in a school Prince Phillip said you could kill as many children in a classroom with a cricket bat as with a handgun. He was talking sense but was totally crucified by the public and the media. The government catered to the ...[text shortened]... sting results such as the ability of terrorists to change election results like in May in Spain.

Phil shows his normal level of intelligence. Of course he has been proved right by the recent Beslan school cricket bat massacre.