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Peter Hooton on Heysel.

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Woland

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Piece in yesterday's Echo...

Don't know about you guys but I reckon this dude is embarrassing. When you build a career around vicariously taking credit for the good times, I don't really get how you can then say "The stadium was not fit for purpose...As a Liverpool fan I don't feel any culpability whatsoever".

Anywhizz, have I got that wrong?

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/heysel-30-years---peter-9254188
 
... That strikes me as a very daft statement from him.
 
Peter Hooton is sound. So are the rest of The Farm. I don't really like their music though.
 
Isn't he the only Kopite in the farm? He's mates with a few members of my family, he's always seemed sound but that's a really stupid statement to make.
 
BBC today

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Hurts my head so much
 
The reasons behind the deaths at Heysel are many and complex, but claiming our fans had no responsibility for them is just madness.

Yep. There are enough dimwits out there only too pleased to put the boot into Scousers (from a safe distance anyway) without this cr@p being peddled.
 
He doesn't claim that though. Read it. He is speaking personally. He also says there is a separate argument about how long the fans found guilty served. Hooton put the effort into visiting Juve and trying to improve relations. He doesn't feel guilty personally and that's up to him.

Tony Evans used to play trumpet in The Farm.
 
I did read it, Cloggy, and I'm afraid I'm not buying your version. He says specifically that he doesn't feel culpable "as a Liverpool fan".
 
Peter Hooton was nowhere near what happened either.

He is speaking personally and he does not feel personally responsible.

This is from 2005 in The Guardian :

Peter Hooton was at Heysel. He is honest enough to concede that Liverpool fans were responsible for what happened.

'I'd never say they weren't Liverpool fans because they obviously were,' he says now. 'There was none of this mythical "organisations" from London or other people.'

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2005/apr/03/newsstory.sport14
 
He doesn't claim that though. Read it. He is speaking personally. He also says there is a separate argument about how long the fans found guilty served. Hooton put the effort into visiting Juve and trying to improve relations. He doesn't feel guilty personally and that's up to him.

Tony Evans used to play trumpet in The Farm.

It's like a South Yorkshire plod saying Hillsborough wasn't his fault. Maybe not, but much better to say nowt rather than take that stance.

Especially if you're whole life is built around being part of this collective liverpool support thing. It's all one big gang when it suits.
 
we were hard done by at heysel. the Italians were far worse than the lfc fans.
#remembers the hooded Italian fan on the pitch with a gun.
uefa were shit scared at English domination of the European game particularly Liverpool.
(referee told at half time that Liverpool were not to win)
 
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