Im not going to turn this into some sort of keyboard arguement but if you genuinely cannot see why Liverpool FC do not want to play on the anniversary of a day where 96 of their fans were crushed and killed, a day where countless families and the Liverpool community were so badly affected then you need help.
The FA understand this and rightly so allowed them to play on the Saturday.
There is two points to make, firstly, you as so many others do, stated something as a fact with no logic behind it at all. Please explain why its okay to play football on the Saturday, the monday, but not the Sunday, because "its an anniversary".
Do people feel loss worse on one day, and not at other times? No, do anniversaries mean ANYTHING, ever, no they mean nothing no matter what the anniversary is for. It's a day that is a set amount of time after an event..... EVERY DAY you will ever experience has the same definition.
I can't see why Liverpool wouldn't want to play football on an anniversary, because its meaningless, its either too painful to remember at all and they never play again, or its not, there is no other argument. People CHOOSE to designate one particular day for grieving, they could choose July the 12th, out of the football season, or decide to remember their loved ones every day and don't require a particular day.
This isn't just because its liverpool, aniversary's and peoples reasoning behind them somehow being worse, is a joke. If some person 2 thousand years ago decided a year was 100 days, would you remember and mourn them once a year? Its arbitrary. I think about people I've lost, WHENEVER I WANT, I both don't need to be with other people to remember them, nor have to set aside a day to do so.
Lastly, they rightly allowed them to play on the Saturday, what would happen if Chelsea had a tragedy the same weekend, and Barnet, and Woking, and they all come up playing each other on the same weekend, but no one can play because everyone is having a memorial? Business's don't shut down because of tragedys, most things don't, why should Liverpool FC, the business.
