The Liverpool-Manchester United series has seen its fair share of disgusting, offensive chanting. Hopefully, on Monday night, you won’t have groups of fans signing again about the Munich Air Disaster, or Hillsborough Disaster, this time. When the two teams met in the Europa League last spring, it got very ugly and shameful.
On Thursday, both Liverpool and Manchester United issued a joint statement ahead of the clash at Anfield warning fans they will be ejected or prosecuted for any “offensive or discriminatory behaviour.”
United Manager Jose Mourinho has urged the supporters not to make taunts at opposing fans that reference Munich or Hillsborough.
“In football we have some football tragedies, if you can speak that – a big match that you lost, the mistake that some player did, this kind of thing – and you can make fun of it in a positive way,” the United manager said.
“But the human tragedy is something much more serious. It’s the last thing somebody should use in a football pitch, because they were really big tragedies, not to forget but to respect. I will be really sad if in such a big football match that was a negative point.”
A message from the manager on Liverpool v #MUFC… https://t.co/7H1GfFfEru
— Manchester United (@ManUtd) October 14, 2016
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