Hillsborough disaster their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was a 'classic smear'. After "The Sun"s report, the newspaper was boycotted by most newsagents in Liverpool and many readers cancelled their orders and refused to buy it from newsagents; and from then afterwards many in Liverpool refer to "The Sun" newspaper as "The Scum". Some even refuse to say the name or spell it as "The S*n." The Hillsborough Justice Campaign organised a less successful national boycott that had some impact on the paper's sales nationally. MacKenzie explained his actions in 1993. Talking to a House of Commons National
1988–89 in English football for it to continue for a fifth season. The season was overshadowed by the Hillsborough disaster on 15 April 1989, which resulted in the deaths of 96 Liverpool fans in a crowd crush at the FA Cup semi-final. On 15 April, a crowd crush at the FA Cup semi-final between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough killed 96 people and injured more than 300. A 95th Liverpool supporter died in hospital shortly after. The final death toll became 96 in March 1993, when Tony Bland died after being in a coma for nearly four years. A subsequent inquiry into the