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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Patrick Edrich

Margaret Aspinall offers to meet Pep Guardiola after 'vile' Hillsborough chants

Hillsborough campaigner Margaret Aspinall has offered to meet with Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola after vile chants were sung during the club's clash with Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.

Mrs Aspinall, whose son James died at Hillsborough has offered to meet Guardiola to explain why chants about the disaster are so painful for survivors and victims' families. She has also called on the Football Association and Premier League to take stronger action and impose points deductions and fines on clubs whose fans sing about stadium tragedies.

Liverpool FC's 1-0 victory over City on Sunday was marred by chants from the away end, with footage showing a number of fans singing "murderers" and "always the victims". Graffiti was also found in the away end's toilets relating to the Hillsborough and Heysel tragedies. Liverpool released a statement expressing disappointment at the "vile chants".

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