Where to begin with today? I can't imagine the pain and suffering the events of that tragic day in 89 caused so many.

From Liverpool fans, to Everton fans and the family and friends of an oft sadly forgotten Spurs fan, Colin Andrew Sefton.

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Speaking of forgotten, there is the man referred to by some as the "97th victim" Stephen Wittle who left all his money to the HJC before killing himself because he couldn't live with the guilt of giving his ticket to his mate who died in the tragedy.

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I don't know what to say. It's so painfully sad. All football tragedies are and the reason is that something we love can turn into a source of such pain by the careless actions of people we trust with our safety.

From South Yorkshire police to our government.

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They both not only failed us, but they went on to continue to attack the families and the city of Liverpool as a whole rather than simply taking responsibility for their own failure

The biggest conspiracy in English football history and arguably the biggest the game has seen

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And yet how do some respond? "Self pity city", "victims".

One of these is true but not for the reasons that Boris Johnson wants you to repeat parrot fashion.

Those who died that day were victims. They were victims of circumstance, of poor planning.

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Of a plot to tarnish their names and the names of their grieving families by a lying manipulative group of scum from the S*n newspaper and others reporting it to a government who would rather scapegoat innocents and drag their memories than stand up to responsibility.

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They were the victims, because they could do nothing because they were dead and now their name and their dignity was up for grabs as well.

Self pity city? Yeah alright. That's why we fought a whole country basically and won. When you feel sorry for yourself, you don't fight

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You don't fight a conspiracy for 30+ years.

You don't give up the rest of your life in a meaningful way to honour the lives of those that can't fight for themselves.

You don't come together as a city to remember and fight for those who were and will always be your own.

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The reason there's always a Tory to tell you that Liverpool have a victim mentality or are a self pity city is because of the fight we've always carried and will carry to them

Because we won't ever lie down, we won't let you tarnish the name of our lost brothers and sisters

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They hate us because they fear us, because they know we won't accept their bullshit, we won't lie down and let them spoonfeed us their crap.

All they can do is propagate propaganda for the more intellectually challenged to sing at football games.

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I was 7 when Hillsborough happened. I was out in the garden kicking a ball against a wall as I always was back then.

I came in to see the little old grey telly that sat on the fridge and saw my mother visibly shaken by something.

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She looked at me and uttered the most chilling two words she ever has in my lifetime.

"They're dying"

My mother is a strong woman, like the city she grew up in, she's had to be. I've never seen her so resigned and helpless.

She wasn't crying but as close to it.

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She was and still is a tactile person, she held me tighter that day than on any day I can remember.

She told me she was so glad I wasn't old enough to go to the match.

It's a somewhat selfish but completely understandable thing for a mother to say.

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I remember bits and pieces of that day, it has all somewhat been blurred by documentaries and news clippings that have come since.

I couldn't possibly understand the gravitas of what I was witnessing that day, I don't know if I ever will to be honest.

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I didn't lose any relatives that day, I didn't lose any friends.

The closest I've got is friends who lost family and friends.

This isn't about me and yet, it is because of what "our" government did after it. They made it about me and every person in this city.

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There is a lot of hyperbole written about Liverpool.

The more I see the actions of this club and how it doesn't do nearly enough for the city in terms of what it could and what it should represent, the more I laugh at that self adulating Liverpool advert.

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You know the one that basically tells every other football fan they are living a lie and that we're the only real football fans or club?

Of course we lapped that up

What ACTUALLY means more is what happened that day, how those families came together to fight for their own

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What actually means more is the Everton fans who were not directly affected but showed grace and dignity and their brotherhood that meant we never walked alone.

Those are the Everton fans I can never hate, my brothers and sisters.

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What actually would mean more is if we could stop all this arguing and bickering and come together as a city to fight our real enemy, those that would seek to destroy us.

What a tribute that would be to 97 angels.

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I'm sorry if my thoughts are all over the place, they are more so today than any other.

What I really just want to say is the same thing I say every year.

Justice for the 96+1

You'll Never Walk Alone

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