This week’s guest is author and columnist with the UK Independent, Tony Evans.
Tony explains why he considers himself “Scouse, not English”, and why that identity derives from Irish migration to Liverpool. He recalls his days following Liverpool across Europe, and recalls the shame of the Heysel Stadium disaster of 1985.
We talk about the reaction of Margaret Thatcher’s government to that night - the banning of English teams from European competition - and why that decision was motivated by far more than just football.
Tony was also present at the Hillsborough disaster four years later: he talks about why he has been determined to keep on talking and writing about the establishment’s cover-up of the tragedy.
And what of football now? Is it really still the best example of working class culture in Britain?
Plus: how he ended up in The Farm, why Rafa Benitez would be a good Everton manager, a Celtic fan’s confrontation with Dida, and an unsettling night in Donetsk.
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