I know people say its only words but i can remember absolutely losing my fucking mind when i went to a Cardiff game & the Leeds supporters sang a lovely ditty about Aberfan.
Im not condoning Liverpool fans whatsoever but some songs sang at grounds across the country can certainly make people react very badly
Beyond the pale,if i was in a crowd and they started chants like that,i'd go fking mental,I'd take a kicking but know i would have to accept the consequencies, i was to young to remember Aberfan,but i know grown men cried
I
am old enough to remember Aberfan. I remember the exact day the news came in. It so happens I was at school not very far from south Wales. I turned thirteen ten days later. Probably the single most shocking public event of my childhood and adolescence. Virtually the whole of the primary school and the village kids in it were wiped out. Very largely due to Coal Board negligence, too.
It is unfathomable to me that people — grown men — could start any sort of vindictive chant about such an event. Words do hurt. Hugely.
If I thought for one second that the ‘always the victims’ was specifically about Hillsborough I'd say anyone singing it should be banned. And I've sung it. Perhaps I shouldn't, and I certainly won't any more. Since they choose to interpret it that way.
However, you've only got to think about it for one second.
Always the victims, i.e. you, Liverpool supporters, were undoubtedly the victims on that one occasion, deplorable as it was, and the problem is that you present yourselves as the victims in
all other circumstances. You have been playing the victim card ever since. That — unambiguously — is the only way sense can be made of it.
However, I won't sing it again.
