Manchester United supporters left a stain on their club’s first-ever continental meeting with Liverpool at Anfield on Thursday night by repeatedly chanting about the Hillsborough and Heysel stadium disasters.
The songs did not stem from a small minority in the away end, with the taunts very clearly audible inside the stadium and drawing boos from the home crowd.
Liverpool fans sang a chorus of "Fergie’s right, your fans are sh*te", to which the United section responded: "The Sun was right, you’re murderers."
It was followed by a string of other unacceptable songs about the Hillsborough and Heysel tragedies.
The chants are the latest episode in a long line of what Liverpool fans' website The Anfield Wrap termed "terrace tragedy tennis" between the fanbases of English football’s greatest rivals.
The songs did not stem from a small minority in the away end, with the taunts very clearly audible inside the stadium and drawing boos from the home crowd.
Liverpool fans sang a chorus of "Fergie’s right, your fans are sh*te", to which the United section responded: "The Sun was right, you’re murderers."
It was followed by a string of other unacceptable songs about the Hillsborough and Heysel tragedies.
The chants are the latest episode in a long line of what Liverpool fans' website The Anfield Wrap termed "terrace tragedy tennis" between the fanbases of English football’s greatest rivals.