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Oct 31, 2026
Tim SpiersGUEST
Celtic being a very sort of, you know, well-known example.
Tim SpiersGUEST
And yeah, DNA can also come from something like a tragedy, like the Hillsborough disaster, which I think has defined Liverpool's modern DNA in terms of the traits that fans and players and managers really hold dear, like togetherness and justice, I guess, and sort of solidarity and fairness.
Tim SpiersGUEST
So it can be a lot of different things, I think.
Emma PatonHOST
I feel like you set that up perfectly.
John InverdaleGUEST
And I always remember one of the people who really influenced me was a guy called Peter Jones, who was one of the great commentators, a football commentator, but much more than that.
John InverdaleGUEST
And I mean, and his famous description at the end of Sports Report on the day of the Hillsborough disaster remains one of the great pieces of broadcasting.
John InverdaleGUEST
I think if anybody's watching this or listening to this has never heard it, it's there on YouTube and elsewhere.
John InverdaleGUEST
It's just amazing for somebody to be able to concoct a minute of poetic tragedy, which is what basically he's describing there is is astonishing.
Tom SykesHOST
Have newspapers made mistakes on huge stories before? Sure.
Tom SykesHOST
And of course, British readers in particular will think of the great stain on the Sun's reputation, which was their coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, when they falsely alleged that in the wake of a horrific fatal stadium crash that took place in England.
Tom SykesHOST
Liverpool supporters had picked the pockets of the dead and urinated on police officers, and The Sun still struggles to sell copies in Liverpool.
Tom SykesHOST
So, look, The Sun is far, far from infallible.
Alex ThomasGUEST
Yeah, so my dad is the first black police officer in South Yorkshire.
Alex ThomasGUEST
And he was on the front lines for some of the biggest sort of events in modern Britain, really, from the Hillsborough disaster to the miners' strike, all the way through to the grooming gangs.
Alex ThomasGUEST
And...
Alex ThomasGUEST
It's part social history through his lens.
Tom SykesGUEST
I mean, sure, newspapers make mistakes.
Tom SykesGUEST
The Sun, of course, made a hideous mistake covering the Hillsborough disaster.
Tom SykesGUEST
But, you know, learnt a lot from that.
Tom SykesGUEST
The idea that Nick Parker had the wool pulled over his eyes by Thomas Markle Jr, I think is kind of ridiculous.
DeanHOST
Yeah.
DeanHOST
Because I suppose it's off the back of the Hillsborough disaster, wasn't it? There was a transformation of all the grounds, so they had to be all-seaters.
DeanHOST
So you have the Taylor Report, and so all the major stadiums were all-seaters.
DeanHOST
And then along came Euro 96, and so they were looking for big stadiums for that, so... old trafford built the new north stand in 95 i think so that made it a 56 000 and then by the late 90s old trafford the old theater of dreams really started to take shape they added tiers to the east and west stands and made it 67 000 by the end of the decade right
Martin MurphyGUEST
So I was first taken to a game in 1989 by my mum and my uncles, which, odd timing, we went to White Hart Lane to see Spurs beat Everton.
Martin MurphyGUEST
But it was the weekend after the Hillsborough disaster.
Martin MurphyGUEST
So it was a slightly odd first game to go to.
Martin MurphyGUEST
I remember the silence before it, and it wasn't immaculately kept.
Tom SykesHOST
It remains one of the worst things that have ever happened in Britain in peacetime.
Tom SykesHOST
And we think of these other disasters, the Hillsborough disaster, the Kings Cross fire, the Grenfell fire.
Tom SykesHOST
uh abavan is up there with the most terrible things to happen in the united kingdom in peacetime and today the king the queen and the prince of wales all went to abavan to mark the anniversary and um anyway let me um i i get i get the top line out of the way first of all they absolutely aced it in my opinion they were a little late arriving about 20 minutes to half an hour late.
Tom SykesHOST
But they really, really gave it the time.
Jim DuffyHOST
And that's where we're up to with that, Shaheen.
Jim DuffyHOST
Now, just before he became Prime Minister, Andy Burnham made a speech in Parliament about legislative change that's been brought about pretty much directly from Inquest findings, Shaheen, and that's in relation to the Hillsborough disaster.
Shaheen RahmanGUEST
Yes, I think that we should just, before we go on to Inquest, mention that.
Shaheen RahmanGUEST
That's the Public Office Accountability Bill, widely known as the Hillsborough Law Act.
Brian ReadeGUEST
I think no one had a drink at that point.
Dotun AdebayoHOST
It was early in the morning, like I said, Sunday as well, you've got to go to church first if you want a drink, you know what I mean? Fair enough, not necessarily the best behaved, but there's a lot of hype I think, that surrounded Liverpool supporters, which came to a crescendo, of course, with the Hillsborough disaster, which every football fan I've got to say that I've ever met is very, very respectful of Liverpool and what the families went through.
Dotun AdebayoHOST
But none of that... would have been as egregious if one newspaper in particular, which is virtually not available in Merseyside anymore, one newspaper in particular thought, oh, Liverpool fans, they must have been to blame.
Brian ReadeGUEST
Yeah.
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