Greenlizard0 Weekend Football Thread ** spoilers ** [4 - 8th May 2013]

dannyjo22 said:
If it was in relation to hillsborough then it's out of order obviously but tbh I don't even think of it in relation to that, just all the other constant whinging and moaning and self pity and woe is me.

They seem to want to make anything and everything about hillsborough.

Again if it was about Hillsborough then it's a shame but I'm sure the fans can overlook a few bad apples when the club has stood shoulder to shoulder in the Justice campaign over the years.
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This is the thing, forgetting Hillsborough you can apply the song to Liverpool and their fans. The problem is Liverpool fans will not budge on their stance that it IS about Hillsborough even though the people singing it say it isn't.

It's interesting though because there were plenty of press articles when United fans sung it, but none about this now. It seems there's a lot of picking and choosing what it means to suit the opinion of the fans or the journalists in question.

I think the reason it's sung is for the reasons you described, the woe is me attitude that is attributed to the club.
 
Azza said:
I doubt anything was sung. Nothing is ever picked up by the microphones, no Liverpool fans ever manage to record / film it themselves either, though I guess the TV companies edit the sound so it can't be heard and the emotional distress it causes Liverpool fans means they're completely unable to film it happening.
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You can hear it here towards the end, it was pretty clear: www.dailymotion.com/video/xzmrm6_ev...-victim-vs-liverpool-5-may-2013-anfield_sport

Considering Everton fans (and it doesn't sound like a handful) wouldn't sing about Hillsborough, this backs up the fact it's not about that. However Liverpool fans vehemently disagree whenever Man Utd fans sing it.
 
Purdy said:
Everton fans singing murderers as well yesterday, the song came around due to Hillsborough due to rags printing liverpool caused the trouble whilst liverpool fans claimed innocence as a victim of the tragedy. it snt the only song united or everton sing about such things so I see no reason in trying to defend it.
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Well, the victim song is usually sung by more people than the 'other' chants, some of which are terrible and shouldn't be sung at all of course. I'm not interested in discussing other songs as we and Liverpool have plenty of bad ones, as do other clubs, but I'm talking about this one specifically.

This one in particular is attributable to many incidents Liverpool find themselves involved with, and people say it's not about Hillsborough, so why do some Liverpool fans insist that it is? Even if it was used in that context, it could have shaken that meaning, even more so now the Hillsborough victims have been absolved of any direct responsibility.

I just thought it was interesting that there aren't any "Disgraceful Everton Fans" headlines when there have been plenty about us. Shows you how twisted and inconsistent the press are.
 
Purdy said:
If we've shaken it why do we still hear the sun was right sang?
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That is obviously really bad and shouldn't be sung, as I said above, but that's not what I'm talking about. The victim song is sung by a lot more people than the worse ones, so it appears to have shaken the meaning - if it even had it to start with... there aren't that many people (perhaps still too many though) that want to rub in the deaths of 96 innocent people. There are however plenty - if not all - who want to poke fun at Liverpool and the situations in which they find themselves (Suarez :p).
 
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