Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:Patnick said, "I am not aware of names ranks or numbers of the officers but I do believe they were telling me the truth.
Yes. He believed that was he was told was the truth. In other words, factually accurate. In other words, facts.
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:Saying you believe someone is not the same as saying you have no reason to disbelieve it. But you obviously have a major problem with accurately quoting anything.
If you believe something to be "the truth", then you do not disbelieve it. He even said, in the quote you posted: "there is no doubt in my mind it is true". In other words, he accepted what he had been told as facts – and passed it on as such.
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:So he made it clear that he was relying on information told to him by police officers...
Nobody has suggested otherwise. He was not at the match. He was told things by police officers. He believed that what they had told him was "the truth". He passed on what he had heard to the agency.
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:Patnick was clearly wrong to say that the officers had no reason to lie. They could have been lying as a coping mechanism to deal with the fact that they failed in their duty to protect innocent people. They could have been suffering shock and confused events that happened an hour before the crushing as happening at the same time as people were dying. They could have suffered from the same problems as you in not being able to accurately give the correct year without making an error...
So, lots of reasons – except the arse-covering one.
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:I never made any comment over whether they were biased...
You didn't need to. What you posted stated it for you, quite clearly.
Biased is too strong a word, especially as I don't know any of them. But I do think that the author of Hillsbrough: The Truth and a producer of McGovern's Hillsborough documentary have no place on an independent panel on Hillsborough...[/quote]
Strange that you don't suggest that a retired senior policeman would have no place on an independent panel, given the circumstances. Of course, if you believe the job they did was affected negatively by such things, you'll be able to provide the proof, instead of just making snide, cowardly hints.
Lord God Jose Mourinho wrote:I think that if any blame was placed on some Liverpool fans by the panel that the Bishop of Liverpool would find that his position as Bishop would be untenable...
So the results were fixed to avoid any awkwardness. Oh pur-leese.
