If they're not trying to break your ankles, they are flopping like Stevie G

So here's my question. Does the MotD commentator announce it live? Cause watching it, it's absurd.

6 accounts by survivors of Hillsborough, including the only ambulance driver on the pitch that day. Essential reading for anyone who has ever followed a sports team.

In 1997 Jack Straw appointed Lord Justice Stuart-Smith to review whether the Hillsborough inquest should be reopened. Both Mr Bruder and the WPC told Stuart-Smith that they had come under pressure to change their statements about finding Kevin alive after 3.15pm, but that they stood by them. Other witnesses said that statements and CCTV footage of the disaster had been suppressed. But Stuart-Smith ruled there was insufficient new evidence to reopen the inquiry.

Kevin's case is now being heard in the European Court of Human Rights, under Article 2, the right to life. Kevin died in the hands of the state, and it's his right to a thorough investigation into how he died. We've also gone under Article 6, the right to a fair trial. My solicitor has told me that if they rule in my favour, we'll get that inquest. That would open 3.15pm till 4pm for everyone.

Just read that sitting on my own on the couch at home on a windy and cold edinburgh sunday. Hard not to cry, and hard not to get profoundly angry.

It was then that I caught the eye of a policeman just the other side of the fence. It was an unmistakable, meaningful moment: because for four or five seconds, across the heads of scores of people, we looked each other in the eye.

I lost him when I mouthed the words, "Help us." He smiled to himself and shook his head at me, and walked on, a little uncertainly.

At that point I thought: "We've been left to die." Many people already had. People bigger than me, smaller than me, and smarter than me were gone. Now it was my turn.

You can't overstate what an impact one event had on the mentality of the UK and Ireland, although I think the force of it is diminished the further you go. When I was on a course about event safety just recently, one events organiser had said that they have, just twice, told police officers to stop pushing for a particularly foolish approach to handling a crowd, saying that if they didn't, they were running the risk of another hillsborough. The person in question didn't feel proud of using this line, but felt it was the only way to shock the police out of their stupidity.

jerseyhoya wrote:So here's my question. Does the MotD commentator announce it live? Cause watching it, it's absurd.

I think they have the BBC guy at the stadium, he sits in the press box and commentates the game, but its not shown live, just on MOTD. If they only had him watch the game and then do commentary afterwards it would lose the emotion.

Thanks for posting that Wiz. The guy who wrote that piece is a regular poster over at Redandwhitekop, the Liverpool board I read. They have an entire subforum over there devoted to Hillsbrough. It's gut wrenching, heartbreaking stuff.

http://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php_board=14.0

I imagine as the 20th anniversary gets closer, there will be more pieces like this. It's impossible to really understand the impact of the day from afar, but it's still devastating to read about.

I found out a guy my buddy works security with used to play for Liverpool back in 1964 or thereabouts. So that's pretty cool.

and you thought the Vet was bad....

BAGHDAD -- Police say an Iraqi soccer player has been shot dead just as he was about to kick what could have been the tying goal in a weekend game south of Baghdad.

Police Maj. Muthanna Khalid says a striker from the Buhairat amateur team was facing only the goalie during a Sunday match in Hillah when a supporter of the rival Sinjar club shot him in the head in the final minute of play.

Sinjar was leading 1-0 when the shooting occurred. Khalid said a spectator was arrested.

More Iraqis are turning out for sports events now that security is improving. Major matches in Baghdad are heavily guarded but security in amateur games in smaller cities is often lax.

Sports Business Journal reported that the CEO of Barcelona (or whatever the title is) toured the Chester stadium site and Barca is considering making an investment in PhillyMLS since they won't be doing Barca-Miami.



Umm... Jackpot?!!

Better not mess with the blue and yellow

Gallas, 31, was the centre of attention, despite not playing in Saturday’s victory over Rovers, in his shiny motor, believed to have cost him about £350,000. [about $490k US...]

The Mercedes-Benz SLR McLaren is rated as the world’s fastest convertible, with a top speed of 207mph.

withleather.com

I think im ready to call Comcast and scream about the picture quality of Setanta. Its worse than a streaming video right now that buffers every 5 seconds. Fucking morons

Arsenal leads the world in hitting the post.

Does this go to ET and/or pens tonight if it ends level, or is there a replay at Hull?

replays end after the 5th round I think. So ET then pens. But I think we're scoring another here before ET

just a note, Arshavin is an amazing talent

They play a replay if it stays tied.

I guess the officials suck in footie also

jp_chips wrote:I guess the officials suck in footie also

Hah! Brantt doesn't watch this so we're spared a rant about how they're corrupt and fixing it. When at the end of the day, it's just stuff is really fast paced and hard to make decisions in real time. I don't blame them for letting the goal stand. Arsenal "deserve" it, and the keeper took a rash course of action.

Whatever. Just promise me whoever wins between Chelsea and Arsenal will beat the Mancs.

If the keeper deflected it (which it looks like he did), then the offsides is negated.

I wanna see Nasri curl one in here.