How the Kop’s chants propelled Andy Burnham to fight for Hillsborough justice

The Guardian

A speech at Anfield in 2009 was met with boos but it led to a change in tack by Labour government and an apology from David Cameron Since dawn, visitors from as far afield as Australia had been laying flowers, scarves and messages underneath Anfield’s Eternal Flame. These Hillsborough memorial anniversary services were usually subdued and respectful affairs, with 10,000 mourners sitting on the Kop to give themselves and the families support on the most difficult of days. But on the afternoon of 15 April 2009, the 20th anniversary of the disaster, it felt different. There was an edge in the…