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by The Mirror

Kenny Dalglish on Margaret Thatcher tributes: Why Hillsborough victims are more deserving of a minute's silence

Respect should be shown where it is due, NOT demanded, writes Kenny Dalglish

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So Graham Kelly, the former chief executive of the FA, thinks there should be a minute’s silence for Margaret Thatcher at football games this weekend.

Really? Well, I’m glad Mr Kelly is still popping up with suggestions because I have got a few for him, too.

The first is that this weekend should be about our football clubs wanting to be respectful to the fans who died at Hillsborough on April 15, 1989.

It would be totally wrong for anybody to attempt to make any other act of remembrance go hand in hand with that.

Everyone who didn’t realise it already now knows, after the events of this year, that those who died are more than worthy of that minute’s silence.

And the response from football supporters everywhere to the emergence of the truth about what happened at Hillsborough - nowhere more than at Everton - has been unbelievable.

So let’s have nobody trying to jump on a bandwagon and using it for something else.

If the FA, in their great wisdom, wanted to plan a tribute to Mrs Thatcher, let them do it another weekend. Not this one.

And maybe while Mr Kelly is talking about ‘appropriate levels of respect’ for the former Prime Minister maybe he should apply that to Hillsborough, too.

Mr Kelly was one of the men in power at the FA at the time of the disaster and it would be nice if, finally, he sat down with some of the families of those who died.

The discussions don’t need to be made public. They could take place in private but it would be courteous if he gave the families answers to a few questions.

Why did you pick a ground that had no up to date safety licence for Liverpool’s FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest?

Why did your organisation ignore warnings about previous problems that had happened at Hillsborough?

The FA was the organisation that approved the venue for the game. Does that not mean they have a certain level of responsibility for it?

I don’t know the answers to these questions but Mr Kelly does. Why doesn’t he have a sensible conversation with the families?

Maybe, he could also tell them why the FA appeared to be focussing on football after Hillsborough rather than the human tragedy that had unfolded.

Football was incidental after Hillsborough. Football didn’t matter. All these years on, I’d like to know if Mr Kelly recognises that now.

by The Mirror

Kenny Dalglish on Margaret Thatcher tributes: Why Hillsborough victims are more deserving of a minute's silence

Respect should be shown where it is due, NOT demanded, writes Kenny Dalglish

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So Graham Kelly, the former chief executive of the FA, thinks there should be a minute’s silence for Margaret Thatcher at football games this weekend.

Really? Well, I’m glad Mr Kelly is still popping up with suggestions because I have got a few for him, too.

The first is that this weekend should be about our football clubs wanting to be respectful to the fans who died at Hillsborough on April 15, 1989.

It would be totally wrong for anybody to attempt to make any other act of remembrance go hand in hand with that.

Everyone who didn’t realise it already now knows, after the events of this year, that those who died are more than worthy of that minute’s silence.

And the response from football supporters everywhere to the emergence of the truth about what happened at Hillsborough - nowhere more than at Everton - has been unbelievable.

So let’s have nobody trying to jump on a bandwagon and using it for something else.

If the FA, in their great wisdom, wanted to plan a tribute to Mrs Thatcher, let them do it another weekend. Not this one.

And maybe while Mr Kelly is talking about ‘appropriate levels of respect’ for the former Prime Minister maybe he should apply that to Hillsborough, too.

Mr Kelly was one of the men in power at the FA at the time of the disaster and it would be nice if, finally, he sat down with some of the families of those who died.

The discussions don’t need to be made public. They could take place in private but it would be courteous if he gave the families answers to a few questions.

Why did you pick a ground that had no up to date safety licence for Liverpool’s FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest?

Why did your organisation ignore warnings about previous problems that had happened at Hillsborough?

The FA was the organisation that approved the venue for the game. Does that not mean they have a certain level of responsibility for it?

I don’t know the answers to these questions but Mr Kelly does. Why doesn’t he have a sensible conversation with the families?

Maybe, he could also tell them why the FA appeared to be focussing on football after Hillsborough rather than the human tragedy that had unfolded.

Football was incidental after Hillsborough. Football didn’t matter. All these years on, I’d like to know if Mr Kelly recognises that now.

I certainly agree with the questions to graham Kelly for me he is one in the front line of the enquiry. For the questions as put in the article that ground was a death trap and there were a few incidents before 15th April 1989. I think including Leeds fans in one incident and manchester Utd fans in another. As for mts thatcher I do think there should be some recognition at football grounds however I would not want that to dilute hillsborough in any way. Perhaps there should be some compromise those clubs that wish to do it should and clubs who wish to opt out can. Liverpool I
Presume would be one who would opt out.

Faz Hatton is now a property developer. Hmmmmmmmm

As for mts thatcher I do think there should be some recognition at football grounds

Football was a working man's sport. She hated it and all who followed it and not just the hooligan element. I'm sorry but you are deluded to suggest that real football fans would want to acknowledge this woman.