FA concerned over rise in 'abhorrent chants' about Hillsborough tragedy

Ninety-seven radical died arsenic a effect of the crush astatine the 1989 shot match

The Football Association has expressed concerns implicit the emergence of "abhorrent chants" related to the Hillsborough disaster.

Manchester United condemned fans who chanted astir the Hillsborough catastrophe successful April.

"These chants are highly violative and profoundly upsetting," said the FA.

"We powerfully condemn this behaviour. We enactment clubs and fans who effort to stamp retired this behaviour from our game."

MP Ian Byrne, himself a subsister of the 1989 tragedy, called connected the Premier League to instrumentality enactment against "obscene" Hillsborough chants during shot matches in a missive connected Monday.

Writing to the league's main enforcement Richard Masters, the Liverpool West Derby MP said: "I cannot accent the detrimental interaction these chants are having connected the families of the 97, the survivors and their families.

"Enough truly is capable and we request actions present from the Premier League and each shot clubs progressive to guarantee that this stops."

Ninety-seven Liverpool fans mislaid their lives arsenic a effect of a crush astatine an FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest, astatine Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium, connected 15 April 1989.

It remains the UK's worst sporting disaster, with a assemblage astatine an inquest aboriginal ruling that the fans were unlawfully killed.

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