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Memory of Hillsborough more important says Brendan Rodgers
BRENDAN RODGERS believes the only minute’s silence observed at football matches this weekend should be to honour the memory of the 96 Hillsborough victims.
It’s the only minute’s silence there should be this weekend.
Liverpool face Reading on Saturday, two days before the 24th anniversary of the tragedy, with suggestions having been mooted that former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher should be remembered by sport following her death on Monday.
A period of silence for those who died at Hillsborough in 1989 will be held before Rodgers’ side face his former club and he said: “It’s the only minute’s silence there should be this weekend.”
Sheila Coleman, of the Hillsborough Justice Campaign, added: “Margaret Thatcher showed no respect to the dead of Hillsborough. To have a minute silence for her at football matches would be a huge mark of disrespect to the 96 dead and the thousands of survivors whom she blamed for the disaster.”