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Btw, I watched the ESPN 30-for-30 documentary Hillsborough. Decent, but not excellent, as a documentary. I still think there are some cultural things I missed, however. Evidence tampering and cover-up by police administration and government? Absolutely. Too quick to blame the fans as drunken...

I think there's just an imbalance. Liverpool has fallen into the trap of glorifying victimhood while failing to adequately recognize their own role and responsibility in the very tragedies they so condemn. If you're not going to forget 1989, why does 1986 suddenly fall off the radar as...

I think the selective memory is a bit hypocritical. Just sayin'. But even if all things were a shut case and closed on Hillsborough, I doubt there would be silence about it the way there is on Heysel, for example.

The sentiment is correct, though, And Superga and Munich don't have as much to do with fans at the matches.

People feel better about things when they think some form of mano negra is at play. To think that a bunch of their fellow drunken louts were responsible for trampling their buddies to death is too much for some to accept and bear. It's what makes conspiracy theories popular.

Hillsboro was just more proof that nobody should attend FA Cup matches anyway. Italy now leads the way in how fans should treat domestic cups. If a drunk got his head caught in the toilet at a Coppa Italia match, he'd drown and nobody would notice his body until a week later.