Today, as every day, we remember Diogo Jota and André Silva, who tragically passed away one year ago.
Through immeasurable loss and incalculable pain, the impact they made and the legacies they left behind - not only within the footballing world, but in the hearts and minds of so many around the world - has shone through over the last 12 months.
All of our love, support, thoughts and prayers continue to be with Diogo and André's families, friends and all those whose lives were touched by them.
Forever in our hearts, forever our number 20 ❤️
Young man of 35 funeral today. He committed suicide because life got too much for him.
Breaks my heart that men of all ages are being bombarded by what they think society expect of them.
Please, if you’re having a hard time - let’s have a coffee 🙏
A GRIEVING MOTHER FOUGHT THE BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT FOR 24 YEARS AND PROVED IT WRONG FROM THE GRAVE
Kevin Williams was 15 when he died at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989. The original inquest ruled every single death happened by 3.15pm and refused to consider any evidence after that point.
Convenient cutoff. It meant nobody ever had to explain why an ambulance never reached him, or whether he could have survived.
His mother Anne Williams was not satisfied with convenient. She had medical evidence suggesting Kevin was alive well after the official cutoff.
South Yorkshire Police had a simpler version of events, one that blamed dying fans for their own deaths and altered statements to fit it.
So Anne spent the next two decades doing the job the police, the coroner, and the government should have done properly the first time.
She set up Hope For Hillsborough, then chaired the Hillsborough Justice Campaign @HJC_Official. She petitioned the Attorney General three times. Over 118,000 people signed her call for a fresh inquest. The establishment's strategy was simple. Wait her out.
It didn't work. In 2012 the Hillsborough Independent Panel confirmed what campaigners had said for years, the original verdicts were built on doctored evidence. The verdicts were quashed and a fresh inquest was ordered into all 96 deaths.
Anne died of cancer in April 2013, two weeks before that fresh inquest began. She never lived to hear the 2016 verdict that all 96 were killed. Liverpool City Region Mayor Steve Rotheram @MetroMayorSteve, who has campaigned for a Hillsborough Law ever since, called her fight a symbol of unbreakable maternal love.
@BBC gave her a posthumous award later that year. A nice gesture, 24 years late.
The lesson is not complicated. One mother with no legal training out-investigated a police force, a coroner, and most of Whitehall, just by refusing to accept a story that didn't add up. If the truth had been told in 1989, none of this would have been necessary. It wasn't, so she made them tell it anyway.
Next time someone tells you to drop it and move on, think of Anne Williams. She didn't, and the country is still catching up to what she proved.
Sources: @guardian@BBCNews@Channel4News@LivEchonews
Im all for signing Diomande but the attitude towards his performance the other night is laughable,he did more wrong than he did right.
Very raw.
Gakpo was outstanding and fans want to sell him for £40m🤣
Its a mistake to sell him.
Slot made every player look worse!
🇪🇸🗣️ Lamine Yamal:
"Today, football needs players like Ronaldinho, Neymar, Isco, Vinícius Jr, Benzema and Cherki." 🤩
"I never saw Thierry Henry play live, for example, but from the videos I've watched, I liked him a lot too."
"The problem I see with young players today is that from the age of four, they enter an academy.
And there they tell you: 'The full-back must receive and pass to the winger, the winger must pass to the midfielder, and everyone must defend and attack.'"
"But when I played in the street, the rule was simple: whoever scored two goals won, and the loser was out. There was fun and there was creativity.
I regret that people don't enjoy watching football as much anymore. Before, I used to watch a lot more matches." ⚽️
🚨 𝗥𝗘𝗠𝗜𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗥: He's still 18-years old.