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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Max Rushden

Take a step back and celebrate the people doing so much good in football

Wolves fan Manny Singh arrives at Chelsea having walked 125 miles in three days to raise money for Dementia UK.
Wolves fan Manny Singh arrives at Chelsea having walked 125 miles in three days to raise money for Dementia UK. Photograph: Zac Goodwin/PA

Barry Glendenning and I were on TalkSport last Sunday discussing the fact a number of Nottingham Forest fans had sung “Always the victims” to Liverpool fans the day before. It doesn’t feel controversial to suggest singing songs about tragedy and death is grim.

But before we’d broken for the ads, a number of Forest fans got in touch. Paul: “In 33 years we have gone from people being able to say any nonsense about Liverpool fans to people not being able to criticise them at all.” Michael: “This won’t be read but you’re lying, we didn’t sing anything about Hillsborough.” As David Squires illustrated so beautifully this week, it really could have been them.

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