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[lakes10]

How many shops still sell this in Liverpool

[red37]

How many shops still sell this in Liverpool

Far too many     Can't be ar5ed looking up their sales figures for Merseyside neither....best to just let the thing rot on the shelf.

[roberto green]

How many shops still sell this in Liverpool

I work in a shop and the top selling paper is the Mirror then echo and mail, worst sales is the sun we sell about 14-20 a day and this is from the OAP's(who dont realise the reasons why or dont like change) or southerner's who live up here.Even if they never had the story of hilsborough i wouldn't buy the rag because it is full of sh!t.

[madman3k]

i totally agree with you no matter how many times they apologise (if they have at all) it will never be fine!!!!

[Flepent]

Mods, I know this is probably the wrong forum, but it will get the most views in here, and can be moved in a few days.

There have been many questions as to how why the boycott exsists, well if there ever was an idiots guidem this is it:

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A surprising number of people seem unaware of the boycott of The Sun by supporters of Liverpool Football Club. Some don't seem to know it is boycotted, others don't know why. Some people rather disturbingly know why the boycott exists but still choose to buy it.

If you choose to continue to buy The Sun after reading this article, and the articles it links to, then you ought to stop calling yourself a Liverpool supporter. Collect any shirts or scarves you have, and hand them in to a charity shop. In fact you can't really call yourself a football supporter. The lies printed in The Sun that you will read about below were aimed at Liverpool supporters, people from Liverpool, people from the North of England, football supporters of any club. If you fall into any of those categories you certainly shouldn't be buying, reading, or visiting the website of that newspaper. If you are a decent human being you will be steering clear of it from now on, even if you've not done so before.

If you buy the paper regularly already, print off all of this information, and save your money tomorrow. Read these articles instead. If you still want to buy that paper the following day I would be surprised.

The boycott of The Sun goes back to April 1989. At the time of writing that is almost 17 years ago. On April 15th 1989 a disaster took place which resulted in the deaths of ninety-six Liverpool supporters at Hillsborough, the home ground of Sheffield Wednesday, during an FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. Ninety-six people had their lives crushed out of them. Many more are said to have ended their own lives since as a consequence of that disaster. A lot of injustices came out of that disaster, far too many to list here. For more information visit the Hillsborough Justice Campaign website at http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough and please try to support them.

This article concentrates on one piece of injustice that could so easily have been avoided. That could so easily have been made a little better, if not fixed, in the intervening years. Lies were printed as fact in a British newspaper, and that newspaper has still not made an unconditional apology for what it printed. Its editor of the time has never made an unconditional apology in all of that time.


The headlines and sub-headlines on the front page of The Sun newspaper on the Wednesday following the disaster were as follows:

“The Truth.
Some fans picked pockets of victims
Some fans urinated on the brave cops
Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life.”

So just four days after their loved ones had died, four days after they had narrowly escaped death themselves, Liverpool supporters were confronted with those headlines. People actually believed those headlines. Those who were there did not believe the headlines of course, nor did those who knew people who had been there. Unfortunately though a lot of people did believe those headlines; people who were not Liverpool supporters, perhaps supporters of another team or people who did not follow football at all. The headlines sewed seeds in so many people’s minds that the 96 supporters died at the hands of their own kind. All lies, all proven to be lies, yet never put right by that publication.

For more on the media coverage, visit http://www.contrast.org/hillsborough/history/media.shtm,
http://football.guardian.co.uk and Wikipedia .

The Wikipedia article says: “The story accompanying these headlines claimed that ‘drunken Liverpool fans viciously attacked rescue workers as they tried to revive victims’ and ‘police officers, firemen and ambulance crew were punched, kicked and urinated upon’. A quote, attributed to an unnamed policeman, claimed that a dead girl had been abused and that Liverpool fans ‘were openly urinating on us and the bodies of the dead’.”

Read that last bit again, it really was printed in a national newspaper.

Liverpool legend and the manager of the club at the time Kenny Dalglish was greatly affected by the tragedy. He attended numerous funerals and visited people in hospital, some of whom were in comas; he spent time with those that had lost their loved ones. In his autobiography he talks about the Disaster and recalls the media coverage:

“The press coverage was difficult to comprehend, particularly the publication of pictures which added to people's distress. There was one photograph of two girls right up against the Leppings Lane fence, their faces pressed into the wire. Nobody knows how they escaped. They used to come to Melwood every day, looking for autographs, and that photograph upset everyone there because we knew them. After seeing that I couldn't look at the papers again.

When the Sun came out with the story about Liverpool fans being drunk and unruly, underneath a headline 'The Truth,' the reaction on Merseyside was one of complete outrage. Newsagents stopped stocking the Sun. People wouldn't mention its name. They were burning copies of it. Anyone representing the Sun was abused. Sun reporters and photographers would lie, telling people they worked for the Liverpool Post and Echo. There was a lot of harassment of them because of what had been written. The Star had gone a bit strong as well but they apologised the next day. They knew the story had no foundation. Kelvin MacKenzie, the Sun's editor, even called me up.

“How can we correct the situation?” he said.

“You know that big headline – ‘The Truth’?” I replied. “All you have to do is put ‘We lied’ in the same size. Then you might be all right.”

Mackenzie said: “I cannot do that.”

“Well,” I replied, “I cannot help you then.”

That was it. I put the phone down. Merseysiders were outraged by the Sun. A great many still are.

There is no excuse for buying or reading The Sun. None whatsoever. If you read that newspaper, or worse still you buy that newspaper, after reading this article and those other articles that are linked to, then you are not fit to call yourself a Red. If you support another team, you should still be able to see why that newspaper should be boycotted. No matter what competitions they are running. Regardless of any “exclusives” they claim to have, even if it is the only paper left in the shop. Saying you bought it to get some tokens to help your daughter’s school to buy a new computer is not going to get you off the hook. It’s really simple:

Don’t buy the Sun.

http://www.anfieldroad.com/

I cant stand the sun tbh all thy write is rubish

[hello_red]

Are you serious?

I mean are you this uneducated?

The facts are there for all to see.

The good thing about arrogance is that it will come to bight you in eventually.

rat!

[nobybob]

How many shops still sell this in Liverpool

I believe the circulation of this rag has gone down to about 12,000 on merseyside (at its peak it was 250,000)
But that's still about 12,000 to many for my liking.

[god_bless_john_houlding]

It's not the amount of shops selling that worries me really, its the amount of people still buying. That's where the problem lies.

[Tophatman]

This paper is the scum of the earth,i would not wipe my worst enemies A..e with it.

Do not buy it under any circumstances.while your at it use the new. of th. w...d for the above also.

[supersub]

Disgraceful.

edited to reflect what you think of the s*n

[chrisrafman]

How many shops still sell this in Liverpool

I believe the circulation of this rag has gone down to about 12,000 on merseyside (at its peak it was 250,000)
But that's still about 12,000 to many for my liking.

12000 too many just in this area, think of how may are buying the rag outside of this area? Cynical really. The owners shouldie and rot. C*U*N*T*S!!!!!!! Justice for the 96!!! Justice for John Paul the cousin of our beloved captain!!! Karma will one day bite the of the slanderous S. LFC Vs THE RAG. There will be only one who wins the day, the 96!!!! RIP and remember justice will be won for you

[Cables]

I used to work in Liverpool Airport, and about three years ago when the Liverpool team, directors and jounalists where boarding the 757 on stand 12 going to Bayer Laverkusen, as we were waiting to take the backsteps, one of the Liverpool directors boarded the plane with a copy of the scum in his hand.

One of my fellow workers, who has now left to become a nurse, had a Liverpool scarf on and was a mad Reds fan, wasnt happy at all

[Cables]

I meant to say, on the inbound plane from Bayer, the loaders left Bayers boots, kit, etc, on board and the plane as it flew back to Germany, Liverpool Airport had to charter a plane to bring them back

[Owzat]

Toilet paper is cheaper and you end up with less sh 1t on toilet paper than makes up the s*n. Never did go a bundle on tabloids, their sport reporting is attrocious and you wouldn't even think cricket was a sport the lack of coverage they give it.

[Barry is staying]

I'm a Villa fan and I wouldn't buy that vile, lying, tacky piece of trash that passes as a newspaper.