Burnham's Challenge

Here is a challenge for Andy Burnham, the shadow minister for health.

Resign your current parliamentary seat and, at the next election, stand as the Labour party candidate in a constituency within the Mid Staffs Health Authority catchment area.

Don't bother with all the twaddle about representing 'your' people from Liverpool.  Have the courage to face the families of those 1,300 people that died, many in great and unnecessary distress, while you presided over the 'blessed' NHS.

You have prattled on about Hillsborough, where 97 Liverpool football fans died and yet are silent about Mid Staffs where so many more died.  Maybe if they had been your constituents you might have cared more.  You certainly emote about the 97, how about the 1,300?

Reader - please pass this on to Andy Burnham and your local MP and push this challenge forward.

Ferguson is right

Always hard to admit that the manager of Manchester United is right but as regards Luis Suarez, he is bang on the money when he says that Suarez is a "disgrace to Liverpool Football Club."  He went on to say. "He should not be allowed to play for Liverpool again. He could have caused a riot."

The response from Liverpool FC was typically one of being in denial.

Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish said in an interview: "I think you're bang out of order to blame Luis Suarez for anything that happened here today."

It is clear to me, at least, that LFC and Suarez do not accept the disciplinary charges that were brought against Suarez.  They lodged a bundle of papers, unsuccessfully but they didn't appeal the verdict.  I surmise because the evidence was overwhelming that they saw no chance of an appeal succeeding (after all 'the FA Committee is stuffed with LFC haters, always is, stands to reason, etc.' )


What chance two new charges, from an FA that seems to have remembered some anatomy and found its backbone, one for Suarez and one for Dalglish of bringing the game into disrepute?

Liverpool have plenty of history - both as a football club and, frankly as a a city.  It is always someone else's fault.  'We are scousers and we can do no wrong'  Those that died at Hillsborough crushed by their own team's supporters and those that died at Heysel would beg to differ, if they still had a voice.

I hear that they will shortly re-name the River Mersey to the River Nile, because that is the place wherein LFC spend most of their time.

Oh, and those charges - don't hold your breath!