The Hillsborough disaster was the worst of recorded British games. To date 96 people have dies because of it but the controversy over the Hillsborough Sopccer incident did not stop the day it happened. The hillsborough soccer disaster went on with mud slinging, contreversy, blame and madness.

This is a quote from the man in the middle of the controversy, Kelvin McKenzie, the editor of the Sun Times.

I'm not saying I was wrong, I'm saying I don't have to say I'm sorry

Kelvin McKenzie

After the Hillsborough disaster rumors were flying and reporters were jumping at any piece of information they could find. A journalist by the name of Kelvin McKenzie came into the limelight due to a story that was published. Kelvin was the editor of the Sun and thepapers headine went as so,

"THE TRUTH", with three sub-headlines: "Some fans picked pockets of victims"; "Some fans urinated on the brave cops"; "Some fans beat up PC giving kiss of life".

McKenzie published reports that fans were admitted without tickets, that victims were being robbed and pick pocketed as they laid injured and that fans even urinated on rescue workers.

His report inflamed the public, especially the Liverpool fans who were accused of the wrong doings.The story was looked upon as a smear by the newspaper. Liverpool fans were fuming that a distaster was used to attack them. Reports from the stadium stated that fans helped and not hurt rescue efforts, even going as far as creating make shift stertchers out of signs to carry victims, pulling many victims to safety and giving CPR.

Many believed that this was not just a journalistic error but an attack at an already very sadned group of people in mourning.

The Sun: from the Wikipedia article about Kelvin McKenzie, the Sun, the mistakes and Ruppert Murdock.

The story accompanying these headlines claimed that "drunken Liverpool fans viciously attacked rescue workers as they tried to revive victims" and "police officers, firemen and ambulance crew were punched, kicked and urinated upon". A quote, attributed to an unnamed policeman, claimed that "a dead girl had been abused" and that Liverpool fans "were openly urinating on us and the bodies of the dead". These allegations contradicted the reported behaviour of many Liverpool fans, who actively helped the security personnel to stretcher away a large number of victims and gave first aid to many injured.

In their history of The Sun, Peter Chippendale and Chris Horrie wrote:

As MacKenzie's layout was seen by more and more people, a collective shudder ran through the office (but) MacKenzie's dominance was so total there was nobody left in the organisation who could rein him in except Murdoch. (Everyone in the office) seemed paralysed, "looking like rabbits in the headlights", as one hack described them. The error staring them in the face was too glaring. It obviously wasn't a silly mistake; nor was it a simple oversight. Nobody really had any comment on it—they just took one look and went away shaking their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was a "classic smear"

From an article about the McKenzie report:

The tragedy, at Sheffield Wednesday's ground during an FA Cup semi-final, claimed the lives of 96 fans.

Speaking on the BBC's Question Time, Mr McKenzie stood by the allegation that many fans turned up without tickets.

But he said he did not know if the suggestion that some fans picked the victims' pockets was true.

He also said he was not sure if the claim that some fans urinated on rescue workers was true.

 McKenzie was questioned about the allegations he made and admitted that some of what he reported as fact may have not been. However, McKenzie refused to appologize which ony made matters worse.

Presenter David Dimbleby said: "Do you stand by everything you said about Liverpool, when you said you were forced to apologise by Rupert Murdoch?"

Mr McKenzie replied: "They [the Liverpool fans] want to find somebody who actually caused the disaster. That's the issue.

"Funnily enough there is one issue that I do believe, I believe that there were fans who didn't have tickets."

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When questioned on the subheadings that fans "picked the pockets of victims", and "urinated on the brave cops," he said he was not sure if they were true.

"Those allegations came from a Liverpool news agency, and a senior police officer," he said.

"I would stand by the ticket aspect - I don't know whether they urinated on them. And I don't know whether they stole their wallets," he added.

When panellist Clare Short said to him that he should apologise, he said he would not.

"I'm not saying I was wrong, I'm saying I don't have to say I'm sorry, as one aspect of it I know is true," he said.