Big Geordie

Yup - I think our luck may run out today. Need to get a good start, but that's not been happening of recent.

Just read this on TF and thought it worth sharing; http://www.true-faith.co.uk/tf/features.nsf/0/E5F62305B59DA56D8025790E0024B591?OpenDocument REPORTAGE - 17/SEP/11 Why Tory Hillsborough documents must be released before Thatcher dies - Brian Reade, The Mirror I’ve lost count of the number of people I’ve heard these past 22 years ask why the Hillsborough Families won’t let it lie. Move on, you can’t bring back your loved ones, so let it go, they say. I heard it again this week after a 140,00-strong petition compelled parliament to debate whether documents relating to Margaret Thatcher’s handling of the 1989 disaster should be released uncensored. “What good will it do?” someone asked me. I’d like to explain. A few years ago I asked Trevor Hicks if he thought he’d ever establish the truth about why he lost his two beautiful teenage daughters that day. He told me he already had. He was in no doubt that they died through police incompetence, inadequate safety procedures, a non-existant emergency service response and a culture that had allowed society to view all football fans as dangerous scum and stick them in metal cages. He sought another truth. Why the Establishment had wriggled out of all blame, smeared the fans as killers, lied about their actions and refused to take any responsibility for the deaths, thus denying the deceased justice and the bereaved closure. And he said if he could be granted one wish before he died it would be to find out what was said between Margaret Thatcher and police chiefs when she visited the Leppings Lane terrace the day after the disaster. Because someone in high places had told him that Thatcher decided it was imperative that the police were exonerated. That the consequences for a force she treated almost as her private army, would be immense if (as Lord Justice Taylor’s report later demanded) they took the rap for 96 deaths in their care. And so the cover-up began with her press adviser Bernard Ingham briefing the media that the disaster had been caused by a “tanked-up mob”. Three days later the Thatcher-supporting Sun’s infamous front-page about fans urinating on the dead and stealing from their pockets appeared after collusion between the Police Federation and a Tory MP. The story went round the world that drunken fans killed their own. And the truth was buried. So for Trevor Hicks, the Thatcher documents, which constitute the minutes from that Sheffield meeting and other correspondence with her ministers, could be the smoking gun that proves a conspiracy which went right to the top of the Tory government. Which is why it’s no surprise that the current one is fighting to stop those secret papers being made public despite the Information Commissioner demanding it be done. If, as the families suspect, the Tories have something to hide, we need to find out what it is. Which is why MPs will demand next month that every document relating to Thatcher’s role be released in an “unrestricted, uncensored and unredacted” form. If they win the day it won’t just be a great day for the 96 but for football. Because hers was the government that caged fans, that thought about bringing in electric fences, moats and ID cards and would willingly have killed the game. If they win I don’t care whether the documents go straight into the public domain or to the independent Hillsborough panel. As someone lucky enough to survive that day though, I do have one wish. That if those papers contain the smoking gun, the trigger is pulled in public before Thatcher dies. Because I’ve waited a long time to see that bullet fly. --------------------- I bet Maggie will pop her clogs before the truth finally comes out.

Good read.

How can peace be brokered when he has treat the club's lifeblood so appallingly over the last 3 years or so? He shows us nothing but contempt and then gets his henchman to whinge to the papers about how we are so nasty to him. Laughable.

The regime would find those who sang and ban them anyway,

It looks tacky and awful. The man doesn't give a shit.

Nout short of a miracle to get a draw here - very poor performance, which would be understandable if it was a one off, but it's not. Makes you wonder if we are now using up our quota of good luck for the season. Still though, most of us would have settled for top 4 after 4 games.

Ryan Taylor......

Derry wide with a free header. If we escape from here with a point, it'll be a miracle.

No changes it would seem.

Shola taking plenty stick again, I see. I'll be amazed if the lad is fit though - our manager seem to have a knack of insisting on playing him when carrying a knock or two. In saying that, the change is needed.

Steven Taylor saving us.....

SWP has the beating of Ryan Taylor everytime it sounds.

Bothroyd misses a sitter?

Am not watching on Sky - stuck at work and making do with Radio Newcastle.

Another slow start from us?

'kin hell Not the first time some mackems have poked fun at the disabled? I remember an incident at an ice-rink a good few years ago too. Shower of bastards the lot!

Crisis Club!

His record for us suggests otherwise, apart from when returning from a bad injury or towards the latter end of his career.

Arshavin scores for Arsenal after a goalkeeping howler.

Awful pen by all accounts. Saved easily by the keeper. Stoke have a pen.....

Routledge injured in training through the week, according to 5Live.

Two very different players for me. One thing that Shearer has over Rooney is consistency over the course of his career. Rooney tends to blow very hot and cold, IMO.

Nothing really exciting there, to be honest and whilst they have answered questions - more are still to be answered and time is the only way we will be able to judge. In response to what they said about fan's viewing with cynicism, well they did admit to a court of arbitration that they had intentionally misled the supporters of the club (amongst others) They hung themselves when that was admitted.

SJP gonna look even more trashy as Ashley goes into free advertising overdrive. Says to me that he maybe staying longer than people think if he is going to this much trouble.