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Taylor had absolved them of blame in 1989.

Not of the cover-up, no. The police's ineptitude (and not the behaviour of the fans) as the main reason for the tragedy has been on public record for 23 years. Boris, for whatever reason, chose to ignore that.

The point she conveniently overlooks is that it DID happen (thankfully, with lesser consequences) to other fans, at the 1981 FA Cup Semi-Final.

Why does anyone cover up a catastrophic f***-up? The possibility of criticism, prosecution, loss of job, loss of pension, prison - the list goes on.

While you're right about the licensing authorities, I don't think Sheffield Wednesday should escape their portion of blame. They knew that their ground wasn't up to required safety standards for a match of this type, and yet were still happy for it to go ahead - and for them to reap the...

Govt: "It has now been established (albeit 20 years ago) that police negligence was to blame for this tragedy..." JFT96: "Oh, OK. Thanks." Can't quite see that ending there.

Taylor spelled out the facts about the fans' behaviour, the police's behaviour, the emergency services and so on - and yesterday's report confirms them. That information has been in the public domain for 20 years, since the report was published, though some people, even up to yesterday, still...

Interesting point. The Panel said today that the missing CCTV tapes story was 'apocryphal', and they had no evidence how many, if any, were missing. However, what they also said was that that didn't matter; that they had all necessary information. In other words, other cameras covered all the...

Are you just trying to be edgy and contrary? How could they have found evidence when, as was proved 20 years ago, none existed?

Now don't be horrid to the poor lamb. He's struggling with much easier questions than that one.

Your opinions are derided principally because - and you have been told this many times, but it has failed to sink in yet - you based them on lies, innuendo and hearsay. So... who has been talking shit?

More pertinently - have you?

One can mention ticketless fans, but as you point out, they're an irrelevant part of the story.

Look at the first four words of post no. 165.

You've been thinking differently all this time - 20 years after the Taylor Report?

Because it was written (that Liverpool fans were not to blame) in the Taylor Report.

The Guardian is running this live. 11:37 BST Word just in from our Liverpool-based football reporter Andy Hunter who has just sent me a quick note: Been told the families have just given the panel a standing ovation after what they heard. A home office spokesman has said its...

Sheffield Wednesday FC has issued a formal apology. Sheffield Wednesday FC welcomes the release of the Hillsborough Independent Panel report and would like to acknowledge the enormous amount of hard work by all involved during what was, and continues to be, an extremely emotive process...

So what? You wish to repeat something not high on their agenda - just yours. This has never been about financial compensation - they wish to receive justice - irrespective of what your value system leads you to believe. And even if it was - they would have a good case.

When you miss the point, you miss it by quite a distance, don't you? The campaigning - and has been since the justice groups were set up - is for a recognition from the authorities that, in blaming Liverpool fans for the tragedy, they lied, covered-up and deliberately spread mis-information.