Hillsborough disaster "The Sun" Political Editor Tom Newton Dunn defended this decision, saying "I don't think it should all be about "The Sun" – it was not us who committed Hillsborough." Trevor Kavanagh, the political editor at the time of the Hillsborough disaster, said that he was "not sorry at all" about the reporting and supported his former boss Kelvin MacKenzie, claiming that "we were clearly misled about the events and the authorities, including the police, actively concealed the truth". In February 2017, Liverpool F.C. issued a ban on "The Sun" journalists from entering their grounds in response to the coverage of
Liverpool Revisited wrote loads of poetry, as he does." About the song musicOMH said that: "Liverpool Revisited acts as an upbeat tribute to the families affected by Hillsborough – a more upbeat, stirring anthem than the bleak SYMM, with talk of "dignity and pride, poetry and life". As for The Quietus they said that the song is "melodramatic and passionate", stating that: "Wire's lyrics narrating a time he was overcome by tears, wandering around Liverpool with his polaroid camera and musing on the city's physical beauty and its defiant fight for justice following the Hillsborough disaster. Its lyrics are simple and direct