Why Is This Bad?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/30740207
as far as I can tell he's sticking up for Hillsborough victims et al.

[mrs_overall]

I agree, but what Evans has gone through is nothing compared to what the families of the Hillsborough victims have gone through, so it does come across as a crass comment

[jno]

probably because comparing a rapist to just about anyone is a pretty pointless exercise, whether it's accurate or not. But you can't really blame a footballing supremo for thinking of footballing comparisons.

[bhg481]

I think he was just trying to find an example of an initial verdict being changed. Being a football person the Hillsborough disaster came to mind. I don't think he was actually comparing the seriousness of the two events.

[Baldric]

Sums it up well imo,

///Phil Scraton, a Hillsborough expert and adviser to the bereaved families, called Taylor's comments "crass, insensitive and inappropriate"///

[anotheoldgit]

No different to a recent comparison made, and that was comparing it to those who had been hanged for a crime that they were later to be found innocent of committing.

[Hopkirk]

He knows enough about Hillsborough to know he was entering dangerous territory with such a comparison.

What an idiot.

[bazwillrun]

people love to be offended......its the new national pastime dontcha know !?

[-Talbot-]

I don't see it as bad and he has nothing to apologise for.

[ludwig]

It's a kneejerk reaction from the seemingly endless hordes of people who are waiting around for something to be offended by and get angry about - aided and abetted by the media who love to blow this kind of thing out of proportion because it makes a good story.

It's a fairly simple point he was making - ie that miscarriages of justice do occur.

[youngmafbog]

I agree Ludwig, when the piece was played this morning I was expecting something explosive, what i actually heard did not match the reports. (Unless you were going out of your way to find something)

[ToraToraTora]

it doesn't help that Hillsborough is one of the "Nuclear Bomb" subjects that should really be avoided.

[sandyRoe]

Has Evans not exhausted the appeals procedure? He was convicted, any appeal would have looked at that conviction and found it safe. Where's he to go now?