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Phil Scraton on the late Nottingham Forest manager’s persistent lies about Liverpool supporters
I read with interest your interview with Craig Bromfield ahead of the publication of his autobiography (Brian Clough and me: ‘If it wasn’t for him, I’d be in prison’, 30 October). In the extract from the book that you published, Bromfield writes that “for a long time” Brian Clough was convinced that 97 deaths of the Hillsborough disaster were “the innocent killed by the reckless”.
Clough witnessed the disaster and its aftermath. He received detailed accounts of the tragedy, giving him many opportunities to correct his erroneous view. However, he repeated in the Daily Mail the lie published in his 1994 autobiography, that “Liverpool fans who died were killed by Liverpool people”. It is no coincidence that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a Sun sports journalist. The book’s allegations renewed the newspaper’s intense hostility to Liverpool fans. Within days of publication, allegations of hooliganism and discussion about the deaths of Juventus fans at Heysel and Hillsborough were run together on BBC Radio 5 Live and across the national press.
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I read with interest your interview with Craig Bromfield ahead of the publication of his autobiography (Brian Clough and me: ‘If it wasn’t for him, I’d be in prison’, 30 October). In the extract from the book that you published, Bromfield writes that “for a long time” Brian Clough was convinced that 97 deaths of the Hillsborough disaster were “the innocent killed by the reckless”.
Clough witnessed the disaster and its aftermath. He received detailed accounts of the tragedy, giving him many opportunities to correct his erroneous view. However, he repeated in the Daily Mail the lie published in his 1994 autobiography, that “Liverpool fans who died were killed by Liverpool people”. It is no coincidence that his autobiography was ghostwritten by a Sun sports journalist. The book’s allegations renewed the newspaper’s intense hostility to Liverpool fans. Within days of publication, allegations of hooliganism and discussion about the deaths of Juventus fans at Heysel and Hillsborough were run together on BBC Radio 5 Live and across the national press.
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