Why won Shanklys allow The Sun newspaper to be read in the bar?
After the Hillsborough disaster ‘The Sun’ printed some unforgivable headlines about the supporters. The editor of the paper (at the time), Kelvin MacKenzie gave the ‘go ahead’ to print ‘THE TRUTH’ about what happened, saying: – Liverpool fans were pick-pocketing the dead! – Liverpool fans urinated on helping Policemen! – Drunken fans viciously attacked rescue workers and Police! – Drunken hooligans, without tickets were to blame for the deaths. – Centre-spread photos of crushed victims with captions saying “…it was their own fault…”. Before printing went ahead, MacKenzie sought confirmation of the above with the M.P Irvine Patnick; he said that it was because he had had it confirmed by the senior duty Police Officer at the match, namely, DCS David Duckenfield. MacKenzie half-heartedly apologised ‘in print’ in 1993. However, in November 2006 he revealed that he only did so because the newspapers owner, Rupert Murdoch, ordered him to. MacKenzie quoted on BBC’s ‘Question Time’ in Janu
