Featuring a number of Liverpool FC and Everton FC cameos, the film appears to be the latest in a long line of scouseploitation films along the lines of Beating Berlusconi and One Night In Istanbul.

Can there be any other city in the UK that mythologises its own culture quite so much? Doubtful.

Anyway, you can order Reds and Blues (The Ballad of Dixie and Kenny) on DVD at £14.99 from www.redsblues.co.uk.

• Thanks to Dave the Pap for the image

It’s been curious to watch the plight of Reds over the last 12 months, especially after they took such delight in NUFC being sent down the season before last, but no-one wants a football club to go down.

So, with a typically scouse flourish, Liverpool is uniting against the hated American tycoons, in what is the latest attempt to lever the owners out of Anfield.

Behind all of this are the trio of Hollywood film producer Mike Jefferies, Liverpool author Kevin Sampson and Liverpool musician Neville Skelly, while plenty of the usual suspects – McCulloch, Broudie, Bishop and Fitzmaurice – are also connected with the video.

The Culture Blog’s not sure what to make of all of this – all of the YANKS OUT stuff is uncomfortably close to jingoism – but we once spent an evening with Kevin Sampson, who was an amusing, witty, softly-spoken and fundamentally pleasant chap.

So, what the hell. Why not send an old American bloke a video clip telling him how much you hate him?

• Filming takes place Saturday from 10.00am–6.00pm at the Hope Street Hotel in Liverpool.

• Image by Dave The Pap

Not such a big deal? Maybe to the people of a city accused of the most hideous lies imaginable by the paper after Hillsborough.

There are some things I think Liverpool needs to get over, but Hillsborough is a taboo. Emotion is still high and raw, and understandably as far as I’m concerned.

The Sun has bent over backwards in recent years to apologise for its sickening coverage of Hillsborough, but I don’t blame scousers for wanting nothing to do with the paper, especially when it continues to employ Kelvin MacKenzie – something the BBC should also be ashamed of.

Sometime the best thing you can do to make amends is to just go away and leave people in peace.

• You can find my other coverage of Hillsborough, usually involving the Sun, here

• The SunLiverpool account seems very new, but it’s already attracted some unsurprising opprobrium, including:

@SunLiverpool You hideous, hideous lying bastards. Was that what you wanted? Much less than you deserve.

Every @SunLiverpool follower should be ashamed. All 600 of ‘em

@SunLiverpool as if the sun is scum

I’ve only lived in Liverpool for a year, but somehow I think that The Sun might be being a wee bit optimistic with their @SunLiverpool feed.

Good god, I can’t believe this. When will they get the message? We won’t forgive. We won’t forget.

You have afucking nerve don’t you? The lies your shitrag printed and you set up a twitter account?

The @SunLiverpool needs to fuck off

The group is aiming to raise enough cash to take a take club and force the terrible twosome out. It’s a pleasing expression that sometimes there are wider issues surrounding footie than what goes on on the pitch or in the boardroom.

People power, with a bit of help from Aldo, Bish, Fitzy and Shankly’s granddaughter. Apparently McNab and John Power were there too. How boss!

From the Beeb:

Fans of Liverpool Football Club have staged a city centre rally in protest against the club’s American owners.

The Spirit of Shankly Union chose 4 July, American independence day, to protest against US owners Tom Hicks and George Gillett.

About 2,000 fans turned out to the rally outside St George`s Hall.

Speakers included former player and shareholder, John Aldridge and Bill Shankly’s granddaughter Karen Gill.

Leaders of Spirit Of Shankly Liverpool Supporters’ Union issued their own Declaration of Independence, outlining details of how supporters can buy the club through a partnership with a credit union.

• Images by Dave the Pap

We have it on authority that Hodgson took in a play at The Everyman, a concert at the Phil, admired the toilet’s in the Philharmonic pub, enjoyed a meal at the Carriage Works and rounded off the day by skanking to some dirty dub at The Magnet.

Not really.

Image by Dave the Pap

I’d be minded to give Hunt the benefit of the doubt as suffering a simple slip of the tongue. To anyone not engaging the brain, Heysel and Hillsborough may be fairly interchangeable: both football tragedies that happened within a few years of each other; both involving LFC; both starting with ‘H’.

But a less charitable reading is that it’s simply the Tory mindset that Liverpool fans are hooligans, or it’s a simple ignorance of history in the frozen wastes up north.

The same sort of ignorance that Chris Grayling displayed when he suggested that Gary Neville was a great model to youngster in Toxteth or Boris Johnson deciding that Ken Bigley’s execution was the right time to have a pop at the city for its sentimentality.

It’s a long-lasting enmity that goes back at least as far as Thatcher, and probably much further. Despite recent Tory attempts to reach out to Merseyside, the region shows no signs of entertaining the Tory advances.

With gaffes like Hunt’s, it’s not surprising.

Mischievous, especially given Sven’s recent ‘come-and-get-me’ plea to Anfield, but I’m a bit none-the-wiser at to what it’s all about.

There’s an incomprehensible blog here, but I can’t make head nor tail of it.

There are a few areas around the country that are fairly unimpressed by the England football team, but none so much as Liverpool in my experience.

There are a lot of obvious reasons for this: the large proportion of people descended from Irish or Scots stock; the individual Liverpool identity that resulted from the melting-pot of various cultures and creeds afforded by the docks; the sense of betrayal by Tory governments and national press; and the overstated sense of importance that many Reds display about LFC.

I think there’s also an impression that the England footy team is primarily a Southern- or even London-centric outfit.

So, this sort of thing is rooted in football, but it’s deeper than that. It’s about Liverpool pride. But it’s something that makes me feel a little uneasy too. Sure, it’s meant as light-hearted, but anything that defines people by a shared trait also excludes anyone not sharing that trait. It’s an explicit rejection

Consider the implications of a poster reading ‘We’re not English, We’re Catholic’; ‘We’re not English, We’re Muslim’; or ‘We’re not English, We’re Black’. To take it a step further, what about ‘We are not Europeans, We are English’? Can’t we all be both?

Comparable? Perhaps, perhaps not. Not meant seriously? Fair enough. But there’s more to it than meets the eye, and it never fails to make me feel uncomfortable.

• Fans, Liverpool Echo and Tommy Smith celebrate

• Ian Rush interviewed live outside his house to express boring opinion

• LFC fans predict return to glory days of 80s; FA Cup and league title within a year.

• Local consortium headed by stairlift magnate expresses interest in buying club, despite having about ten million quid between them.

• Spirit of Shankly starts campaign to get every fan to commit a thousand quid to fund, in doomed attempt to buy club

• 80s pro who no-one remembers particularly well unveils ‘shock’ bid for club

• Middle Eastern millionaire reveals interest in bidding for club

• Russian millionaire reveals interest in bidding for club

• Eastern millionaire reveals interest in bidding for club

• American millionaire reveals interest in bidding for club

• LFC fans start protests against everyone connected with sale from buying club

• Benitez says he wants to stay at Liverpool for ten more years

• Benitez leaves Liverpool for Spanish club during Summer

• LFC announces losses totalling millions of pounds

• Local politician suggests groundshare

• First game of season sees Gerrard score 40-yard screamer, kiss badge

• Foreign millionaire buys club, appears on pitch in LFC baseball cap and scarf

• Despite rumours of Jose Mourinho, Sam Allardyce is brought in as new manager

• Darren Farley unveils new impression of new owner

• By Christmas any hope of winning title is clearly gone

• Fans start campaign to drum new owner out of club

I have little connection to Hillsborough, beyond the fact that I printed a number of articles in Liverpool Student about the appointment of Norman Bettison as the Chief Constable of Merseyside in 1998.

It’s an appropriately simple exhibition, with a short, plain page of A4 introducing reproductions of the pages, presented without captions or any associated text.

The editions reflect the shift in reaction from disbelief, to grief and then to anger. Expressions of grief, solidarity and sorrow are replaced by the search for answers and anger at the incompetence of the South Yorkshire police and lies printed by the national media, notable The Star and The Sun.

The Echo and LDP act mainly as mirrors of the feelings in the city – the relief family members, the terror of survivors, the horror of onlookers, and the outpouring of emotion that surrounded the memorials that followed – before the search for answers begins in earnest.

Among the more subtle elements evident in the papers are the letters of support from football fans of other teams; the family notices in the following days; images of the city’s famous sons and daughters wearing the gloom that surrounded the city on their faces; an outraged letter to the editor from a local businessman who had listened to mistruths from the police about where the blame lay.

Inevitably it’s the images themselves that hold the most power. A fan, head bowed, on a terrace; the aftermath at Leppings Lane; Liverpool’s clergy united at a memorial.

And then a simple image of two brothers hugging each other at Lime Street, in days before the internet and mobile phones – one possibly unsure about whether the other would ever return home.

Tears sting the eyes and I have to leave; into the sunlight of Old Hall Street, Liverpool in April.

• The exhibition runs in the atrium of the Post and Echo building on Old Hall Street until 16 April.