I’VE written before about something I call ‘the football bubble’. It’s a simple concept – inside it anything goes. People take leave of their senses, behave abhorrently; dignity is forgotten and respect means nothing. And it’s all fine. Because it’s ‘only football’.
But it’s not. It’s an excuse, and a poor one, for idiotic behaviour that would be unacceptable in any other social setting.
The world has recently become privy to information that once and for all nailed the Hillsborough disaster myth – Liverpool suppor...