By Micky Monsoon
October 28 2004

Unlike the Liverpool official website, we can name our correspondents. Perhaps it's cos we deal with the truth! Manchester United fan Paul Meadows has written in to us to give his view on the Millwall v Liverpool fall-out. Manchester United fan Paul Meadows writes: "I am absolutely fuming today. Have a read of these two paragraphs:

'Phil Hammond, chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group said today: "I'm not surprised to hear the Millwall fans were doing that, I wouldn't expect anything else from the likes of them. But they aren't the only ones to do it.

'My son has been to Old Trafford and seen Manchester United fans press their hands against their faces, to pretend they are being crushed. It is sickening to use something which took 96 lives as a way of winding people up.'

Before April 1989 Liverpool fans used to sign about Munich whenever we played - without fail. And I don't just mean adults - kids, women, everyone was at it. They used to bring model aeroplanes to the game and throw them on the pitch. It was every single time and it was horrific.

It must have been funny to taunt people about death before 1989.

The first time we played them at OT post Hillsborough, the only thing we sang to them was: "where's your famous, where's your famous, where's your famous Munich song...?" They didn't even utter a word.

I can honestly say I have never heard a single anti-Hillsborough chant coming from a United fan - or any other fan, come to that - during any match I have ever attended. Sure, you will get the odd knob-head United fan who will shout something, yet more often than not (as in 95% of the time) he will get shouted down and bollocked for it.

I have tried to contact this Phil Hammond today because I want to know:

1) why he deemed it necessary to bring our name into things;

2) whether he actually attended a Liverpool-United game before 1989;

3) what he thinks of the 'who's that lying on the runway...' songs he and other Liverpool fans STILL sing; and

4) why he finds singing 'Harold Shipman' songs acceptable.



I couldn't get any contact number for him or Email address, but I have spoke to 'Pete' from the Hillsborough Family Support Group this morning at 9.30, and asked him to pass my details onto Hammond. He said he was driving at the moment and could I call back in an hour. I have tried to speak to him again five times, yet he is not answering his phone. I have left a message on his voicemail to call me back, about an hour ago - so far, nothing.


It just stinks of hypocrisy and it really gets my blood boiling when they bang on about Hillsborough, the way they totally dismiss any suggestions that they might - just a tiny little bit - have had something to do with the disaster.

We all agree it was a monumental disaster. We all agree that mocking it is sick. We all agree it was one of the biggest tragedies ever. We all agree the Sun were bang out of order in their coverage of it.

But if it were the fans of another team who were crushed that day, I wonder what their opinion of it would be? Especially if it were United fans involved. Would they sing about it then? Well, considering how they mocked Munich (still do) and sing about Shipman (still do), all the evidence would suggest that sadly, of course they would.