S*n to publish Hillsborough apology

super_furry

According to some of the Liverpool forums, they're going to have a front page apology for the despicable lies they told about the Hillsborough tragedy. Looks like it's down to the adverse reaction in Liverpool to Wayne Rooney signing a deal to write for them and it'll be interesting to see how far they go or if it will just be, as many suspect, lip service.

TwoShedsJackson

About bloody time.

Harry2001

A bit ****ing late if they do it now :rolleyes:

It will take a lot more than an apology for most people.

super_furry

Absolute ****ing disgrace. It's not an apology, it's an attack on the people boycotting their scummy ****ing rag. I can believe they have the gall to do something like this and pretend it's an apology, when really they're launching an attack on their competitors and the people who had the conviction in their morals to hit them where it hurts most - the pocket.

I urge every soccer fan to boycott this piece of filth 'newspaper', and if you are unaware of the agony and pain The S*n caused following the loss of 96 lives and why there should be a boycott, please read http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/history/media.shtm

IT is 15 years since The Sun committed the most terrible mistake in its history.

By making grave and untrue allegations about the behaviour of Liverpool fans during the Hillsborough disaster, we enraged the city.

But more importantly, we tarnished the memory of 96 soccer fans who had tragically lost their lives.

And our carelessness and thoughtlessness following that blackest of days made the grief of their families and friends even harder to bear.

We long ago apologised publicly to the victims’ families, friends and to the city of Liverpool for our awful error.

We gladly repeat that apology today: fully, openly, honestly and without reservation.

If there was any way we could take back our erroneous words of 15 years ago, and by so doing ease the deep anguish we caused to so many people in mourning, we would do it.

But there isn’t. We can only hope that time will be the great healer.

Sadly, for some people in the city of Liverpool, forgetting — never mind forgiving — is impossible.

If they want to hate The Sun, then that is their right. We are hardly in a position to blame them.

What we find impossible to take, though, is the way some of Liverpool is turning its anger on one of the greatest footballing talents the city has ever seen.

Wayne Rooney is one of Liverpool’s finest sons.

At 18, he is the nation’s hero of Euro 2004 and has the potential to outscore England legends like Jimmy Greaves, Bobby Charlton and Alan Shearer.

On Merseyside, his name should be the toast of every pub, street and school.

Instead, he is being vilified by some Liverpool and Everton fans.

We can understand the grief of those who lost loved ones at Hillsborough.

We do not condemn the outspoken words of men like John Glover or Phil Hammond, whose sons died in the tragedy, for their loss entitles them to hold any opinion they wish.

But the words of other fans leave us in despair.

Wayne Rooney was just three years old at the time of Hillsborough. He and his fiancee Coleen are devastated by this unfair backlash. He should not be punished in 2004 for a mistake The Sun made in 1989. Don’t visit our past sins on him.

One view on a Liverpool website is that by telling his life story in The Sun, Wayne has “signed his soul away to the devil.”

Another is that he has “accepted 30 pieces of silver.”

For goodness sake, give the lad a chance.

It’s not as if Wayne’s the first footballer from Merseyside to talk to The Sun.

We have enjoyed a good working relationship with many players and managers over the years.

And nearly all Liverpool-born celebrities regularly talk to Britain’s favourite daily newspaper.

What The Sun finds most depressing about what is going on in Liverpool is the way trouble is stirred up by the local papers, the Post and the Echo.

Who owns the Post and Echo?

None other than Trinity Mirror.

The same company that owns The Sun’s rival, the Daily Mirror.

The misery being inflicted on Wayne Rooney is a crude effort by them to make commercial gain.

We hope that the people of modern Liverpool, a city of spirit and sophistication, are not taken in.

A brilliant young athlete, a credit to his club, his city and his country, is being pilloried by the very people who should be hailing him a hero.

And The Sun of 2004 no more deserves to be hated on Merseyside than Wayne Rooney does.

For a start, most of today’s staff weren’t on The Sun in 1989 and today’s Editor was a 20-year-old student.

Many of the callers to BBC Radio Merseyside have acknowledged that fact.

Fifteen years is a long time.

It is 11 years longer than the First World War, nine years longer than the Second World War.

We cannot believe these protests properly represent the opinions of the majority of men and women in Liverpool.

No one will ever forget the terrible Hillsborough tragedy, nor those who died and their loved ones.

But trashing a young man of whom everyone should be proud is not the way to honour their memory.

It is time to move on.

KdjaCL

Still wont buy /read cos of that, scum.

kdjac

eirebhoy

So it took a bit of abuse to Wayne Rooney for them to actually apologise.:rolleyes:

KdjaCL

Wayne Rooney sells newspapers.

kdjac

therecklessone

The same company that owns The Sun’s rival, the Daily Mirror.

The misery being inflicted on Wayne Rooney is a crude effort by them to make commercial gain.

Replace Wayne Rooney with Urs Meier and then tell them to f*ck off.

Hypocritical scum.

Big Ears

any one who picks the Sun to read their football/sport is an idiot , there is alot better papers for them to read about football .

I also despise all the British papers who have said anything about his privite life or slated him for a coorect decision .

uberwolf

couldn't have left it with jusy the first paragraph could they, fu<king scun

mike65

They were doing so well until -

Sadly, for some people in the city of Liverpool, forgetting — never mind forgiving — is impossible....etc

Tossers.

Mike.

BaZmO*

Originally posted by therecklessone
Replace Wayne Rooney with Urs Meier and then tell them to f*ck off.

Hypocritical scum.

EXACTLY!!

Who owns the Post and Echo?

None other than Trinity Mirror.

The same company that owns The Sun’s rival, the Daily Mirror.

The misery being inflicted on Wayne Rooney is a crude effort by them to make commercial gain.

We hope that the people of modern Liverpool, a city of spirit and sophistication, are not taken in.

That's the thing that really bothers me about English tabloids. As if they wouldn't be doing the same if the shoe was on the other foot. :rolleyes: :mad:
Always taking the moral high ground when it's up against them and at the same time destroying people's careers/lives with their made up lies!!

I really can't understand why people buy the likes of the Sun and Mirror anyway, IMO absolute tripe!!

B.

Big Nelly

Reall y shouldnt be taken out on Rooney because of the Sun, I had even forgot all about that and I would think Rooney was the same......all Everton fans are doing is pushing him towards a transfer!! then Div1 or watever it is called these days will happen! already Radinski has handed in transfer request and I cant see Campbell or Ferguson scoring more than 5 each next season!

uberwolf

he is a scouser though and would hopefully follow the good example of his mate Gerrard

Dub13

Thay have some neck,trying to say they said sorry before WHEN....?


The part about liverpool fans still not forgetting, and the part about rooney, is an insult. nothing else.

Its just a RAG.

Space Coyote

You'd have to wonder what the hell Wayne Rooney's advisors are paid for ! If he has any that is. Anyone with half a brain would have told him that it's not worth the hassle (that he would almost certainly have received) writing for that rag.

If he wants to write for them, that's his choice, I've no problem with that. If they want to flip the situation over to their advantage and bake a mechanical apology out of the ingredients they can fúck right off !

Big Nelly

Originally posted by Space Coyote
You'd have to wonder what the hell Wayne Rooney's advisors are paid for ! If he has any that is. Anyone with half a brain would have told him that it's not worth the hassle (that he would almost certainly have received) writing for that rag.

If he wants to write for them, that's his choice, I've no problem with that. If they want to flip the situation over to their advantage and bake a mechanical apology out of the ingredients they can fúck right off !

Rooneys advisors are prob been paid a big lump for the interview along with Rooney himself! usually that makes a few things slip there minds!