Hillsborough disaster shared tribal grievance against the rest of society. The deaths of more than 50 Liverpool football supporters at Hillsborough in 1989 was undeniably a greater tragedy than the single death, however horrible, of Mr Bigley; but that is no excuse for Liverpool's failure to acknowledge, even to this day, the part played in the disaster by drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground that Saturday afternoon. The police became a convenient scapegoat, and the "Sun" newspaper a whipping-boy for daring, albeit in a tasteless fashion, to hint at the
Hillsborough disaster Delaney was a guest, along with her husband James. Extracts from what she said can be read here and in "Hillsborough – The Truth" by Phil Scraton (Mainstream Publishing 2016). A television drama film, based on the disaster and subsequent events, titled simply "Hillsborough", was produced by Granada Television. It was highly praised and won the BAFTA Award for Best Single Drama in 1997. Christopher Eccleston, Ricky Tomlinson and Mark Womack were among the cast of the film. It was aired for the first time in 1996, and has been aired four times since then, in 1998, 2009, in September