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I saw the headline yesterday evening after the game about City fans chanting about “stadium related disasters” and immediately knew three things:
1) What they were chanting (because it’s the same as Utd fans have sung for years at Anfield)
2) That the chants are heavily - if not primarily - in reference to Heysel (although I concede this hasn’t always been the case); and
3) That it would soon be reported that the chants were about Hillsborough with Heysel not mentioned.
A quick search on the internet finds images of graffiti in the Anfield away section which includes #JFT39 - a very clear reference to Heysel and only Heysel. Yet on this morning’s radio sports bulletin it’s reported that City fans were chanting about Hillsborough. They’ve not even used the vague ‘stadium related disasters’ language used by the club which at least acknowledged that the chants were referring to incidents other than Hillsborough. Colour me shocked.
The chanting is wrong and distasteful and it’s right that it’s condemned. However, it’s disingenuous for both LFC and the media to link the chants to Hillsborough without referencing Heysel when there is clear indication that’s what the chants refer to (at least in part). That they continue to do so will only give fans of City, Utd and maybe other clubs the motivation and perceived excuse to continue the chants
They’re a scummy club. Don’t want to have to talk about heysel as there is no one else to blame
This is the injury Richarlison feared...Jota will miss the World Cup. Serious muscle injury confirmed.
Exactly...This is the injury Richarlison feared...
No idea why anyone would call this xenophobia. I don't like Klopp but it feels like any comment from anyone gets over analysed.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63309620
I'm expecting Simon Jordan to tear into this, this morning.No idea why anyone would call this xenophobia. I don't like Klopp but it feels like any comment from anyone gets over analysed.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/63309620
Pathetic attempt at deflection - no way on earth Klopp was being xenophobic. Those kind of comments do a disservice to genuine xenophobia.how the fuck can Klop be xenophobic if he himself is not from England ?
what a fucking stupid article
If they can get the media to start labeling negative comments about their ownership as xenophobic then soon enough no-one will be able to critique the regimes running these clubs without being a big fat racist. Sportswashing? Completed it, mate.
I agree, but at the same time isn't it just deflection from Klopp making out Pool are in comparison the paupers from down the road who don't have a pot to piss in. His comments were certainly not xenophobic, but it's just smoke and mirrors from both sides.Pathetic attempt at deflection - no way on earth Klopp was being xenophobic. Those kind of comments do a disservice to genuine xenophobia.