Ban On The Sun Journalists...

[vortex]

Perhaps not entirely unexpected but is this a reasonable decision?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-38933817

[jno]

sounds reasonable enough. If it had been dealt with at the time I would have thought people were unnecessarily stuck in the past; but of course it wasn't, and it took decades for the truth to come out, so feelings are still raw.

If newspapers learn that telling lies has consequences, I can't really argue with that.

[anneasquith]

Yes,

[DTCwordfan]

Yep, especially if you are a liverpool supporter and, you know what, the Toffee fans will be out in support as well. The Sun was gutter-disgraceful.

[Togo]

They should of course ban the Police and refuse to co-operate with them at all home games.

[anaxcrosswords]

Nicked from a Twitter friend:

For any Sun journalists looking to cover Liverpool v Spurs tomorrow, you can catch it on BT Sport at 5:30pm.

[Deskdiary]

Liverpool fans seem to conveniently forget Heysel where they were responsible for the deaths a number of Italians, and yet they doggedly hang on to Hillsborough.

Yes the police did not cover themselves in glory, yes Kelvin Mackenzie shouldn't have run that front page, and yes it was absolutely tragic - the emotional pain the relatives of the victims went through will be with them forever, and I have great sympathy for them, but surely the time is now to move on. Stories like this must open old wounds that don't need to be opened again.

[mikey4444]

I am not sure how the ability of The Sun's journalists not to report on Liverpool's games could be described as anything other than a bonus.

In fact, if The Sun never sold another copy in the area, how can that be something to be sorry about ?

[Gromit]

No it is not. It is daft.
Decades too late, unfair on innocent sports journalists with a job to do, and stupid from a business point of view.

[Deskdiary]

I couldn't agree with Gromit more if I tried.

[vortex]

I heard one chap on the radio being interviewed earlier and the word he used was 'ambivalent' and that it how I feel about it.

From the responses so far, opinion is also split too.

Football in Merseyside is a big deal of course and the original headlines cast a slur on the fans reputation which left wounds that seemingly are not to be healed.

However, the club's stance does have a whiff of having been leant on and Liverpool FC have caved in to pressure.

It is a timely announcement in the sense that the decision to ban the journalists mirrors the team's current fortunes which can only be considered as bad form.

[Deskdiary]

Sometimes people are just simply wrong. They may not think they are.....but they are. This is one of those times. Jno and anneasquith. You are wrong.

[Gromit]

Deskdiary
// I couldn't agree with Gromit more if I tried. //

I'm having T-Shirts made :-)

[Mamyalynne]

I feel the Club should not have given in to pressure from this group but made their own decision and stuck to it.

I speak as someone who had a family member at the Hillsborough match.

[ChillDoubt]

On Liverpool FC's current form there wouldn't be an awful lot to write about anyway......

[vortex]

I will write a headline for them:-

KLOPP'S FLOPS!!

[jno]

it's not "wrong", Deskdiary; a club can let anyone it chooses into its stadium. If Sun journalists feel cruelly mistreated, they can seek work elsewhere. If the club feels it's losing business it can change its mind. I imagine both parties will have considered all the risks already.

As to whether it's reasonable, which was the question, you can only ask "reasonable for who?" The club is under no obligation to do what's reasonable for Murdoch journalists; it's right to consider the feelings of its own supporters first. If the fans think the club's made a mistake, they can say so.

[mikey4444]

My point was that there are plenty of other newspapers, most of them with a great deal more sense behind them, and without a history of bigotry. What is the great loss to Liverpool ?

As regards the poor Sun journalists, perhaps they could get a proper job, with another newspaper ?

[anotheoldgit]

/// "Some people put up stickers, there is a barber shop which won't allow people in with it, ///

The Sun should test that barber out, by sending in a black homosexual with a copy of the Sun under his arm.