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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sport
Jamie Gardner

FA concerned by rise of ‘abhorrent chants’ about Hillsborough disaster

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The Football Association has expressed concern over the rise in frequency of offensive chanting about the Hillsborough disaster.

Labour MP Ian Byrne, himself a survivor of the 1989 tragedy, said in a letter to the Premier League last week that such chants had now become “incessant”, and a “weekly occurrence” at games involving Liverpool.

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