You don't add any clarification at all. In context. what you are annoyed about is petty and really not worth a mention on a day, when after years of being accused of prolonging victimhood etc, Liverpool families, friend and fans were totally vindicated in the courts.
Football fans traditionally remember their own tragedies (recent and anniversaries) with club related paraphernalia.
Your emphasis on 'Irish Liverpool fans' does betray a prejudice of sorts.
I read an interview with Ray Parlour in the Sunday Times and he was saying how huge Arsenal are in Ethiopia. Although I fully agree with osarasan's comment, I think we should get over ourselves a bit and just accept that the EPL is simply huge around the world, as are all the clubs at the top-end of European football. Half the world is talking about Leicester City today.
Of course it's frustrating that many Irish follow English football without showing any interest in domestic football but I think it's quite chippy to think being Irish and following an English team is cringeworthy.
Don't know if that was directed at me but that's not what I think.
Supporting English teams (or Scottish, or anywhere) isn't cringeworthy. Good luck with it if it's what you feel.
But trying to ape their behaviour to the extent that (for example) Irish Liverpool and Everton fans are replicating the cross-city rivalry that exists in Liverpool is fairly cringeworthy.
Looking at the documentary the other night, the main fault seems to have been that when they opened the gates due to the crushing outside, they did not block off the centre tunnel which lead to the section which was already full and the later arrivals should have been directed to the other two pens on either side where there was still space. When they came through the gates the obvious way was to go through the central tunnel which was unguarded. This was also apparently Duckenfield's either first or one of his first games in charge. A far more experienced commander had been moved sideways and out of South Yorkshire Police due to an incident between some of his officers. As ever in disasters, it's the domino effect. Apparently in an earlier semi-final between Spurs and Wolves(?), there had been over crowding at that end which was relieved by allowing fans sit on the edge of the pitch. A warning which had gone unheeded.
Forget about the performance or entertainment. It's only the result that matters.
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