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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Patrick Edrich

'Vile' Hillsborough chants at Liverpool FC reinforce need for UEFA Paris transparency

Another Liverpool FC football match, another set of rival fans trying to ignite a rivalry by resorting to the lowest possible means.

Liverpool's win v Manchester City at Anfield last Sunday might have been the catalyst the Reds needed to kickstart a underwhelming season. But the events on the pitch were marred as City's travelling fans began chants of "murderers and "always the victims" before the game had even reached the second quarter.

Visiting supporters also scrawled graffiti in the toilets in the away end relating to the Hillsborough and Heysel tragedies. Soon after the final whistle Liverpool released a statement branding the chanting from the away end "vile".

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