2006-10-16 06:53:54 · 13 answers · asked by gasman 2 in Sports ➔ Football ➔ English Football
After the Hillsborough disaster, the Sun reported that Liverpudlians were going through the pockets of the dead and stealing valuables, and urinating on police and ambulance workers. No evidence was ever produced for these claims. Understandably, Liverpublians were outraged by this, and a great many shops in Liverpool stopped stocking the Sun - and haven't stocked it since. At the time, many shops who carried on stocking the newspaper found that people refused to buy from them.
The readership of the Sun in Liverpool fell from over 200,000 to around 12,000. So while the newspaper is sold there, it has a very small readership indeed.
2006-10-16 07:46:57 · answer #1 · answered by Xexyz 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Xexyz is absolutely correct.
Although the Sun is sold in Liverpool, many Liverpudlians refuse to buy it after the lies that it printed about the Hillsborough disaster, and this anger at the paper continues to this day because they have never printed an apology or admitted their story was made up.
2006-10-16 08:20:34 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There was a TV documentry about this a few months ago - the other papers didn't write much worse stuff than the Sun did - but what the Sun wrote (without evidence) was worse.
Someone told me that some Everton fans buy it - but I think that was just stirring!
2006-10-16 11:51:23 · answer #3 · answered by funnygeezeruk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Only this week, the "SCUMS" former editor stated in an interview that his Newspaper never told lies only to add "When I published those stories, they were not lies. But I don't really think of it all in the way you suggest. They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue - and that is different."
Yet 2 years ago the "Scum" ran a full page apology for, in its own words, the "most terrible mistake in its history".
Enough said.
And to absolutely fabulous' (in question) answer, Most of us are educated enough to know what Illiterate means.
2006-10-16 12:16:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is on sale in Liverpool, but sales are proportionately less than in other cities in England. It also sells less in Scotland, due to competition from the Daily Record.
2006-10-16 07:02:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is available in Liverpool, but If it wasn't Liverpool wouldn't be missing much!
2006-10-16 07:50:46 · answer #6 · answered by claire j 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
After the way they reported the Hillsborough disaster a great many Liverpudlians refuse to buy it ever again.
2006-10-16 07:05:11 · answer #7 · answered by Pit Bull 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's sold there but not many scousers buy it.
2006-10-16 06:56:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no. It is now sold in most newsagents
2006-10-16 07:28:32 · answer #9 · answered by brm4villa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is sold in Crete, and Spain
2006-10-16 07:10:26 · answer #10 · answered by andipandi 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋