Families had the strength to carry on

You’d have to cut thin slices to have enough shame to go around on Wednesday afternoon.

People from the South Yorkshire Police, West Midlands Police, South Yorkshire Metropolitan Ambulance Service, the British government, the Football Association, Sheffield Wednesday Football Club and The Sun newspaper were required to hang their heads. Among many others.

I’ll take a slice too, while it’s going. At times, over the last 23 years, it was tempting to wonder why the people of Liverpool couldn’t let it go. Hadn’t their case been proven several times? You wondered too if some of the bereaved families might rather make their peace and attempt some kind of life after tragedy, rather than deal with the constant reminders.