The fans now want to bring back the manager brusquely dismissed last fall (after another epochal disaster).

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However, Bent did not have to wait long and, as good as the finish was by the England striker, Hammers manager Grant will have been furious with the defensive disaster that allowed him the chance.

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Kenny Dalglish, who was manager of Liverpool on the day of the Hillsborough disaster, said her death was "really sad but for her a release from her suffering and a chance to see her boy again".

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The company's case is hardly helped by the fact that Robert Kaluza, BP's well manager on board the rig at the time of the disaster, has declined to testify in front of an investigation into it, pleading his fifth-amendment right to avoid self-incrimination.

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Dave Bolton, national operations manager at UK Coal said the firm was aware of the disaster and its plans meant it would "not be mining anywhere near" the bodies.

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Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish, who was in charge of the club at the time of the disaster, had urged his Twitter followers to sign the e-petition.

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