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Offensive Hillsborough chants have been condemned by football fans after sections of the Manchester United support sang the songs at Anfield.

Supporters of both Liverpool and United, as well as fans of other clubs, spoke out after references to the 1989 tragedy - in which 96 Liverpool fans died - were made in a song.

Former Liverpool striker and pundit Stan Collymore was among those on social media chastising the vile chants, report the Liverpool Echo.

Collymore wrote: “Those songs speak only for the people singing them.”

Referring to the Munich air disaster, in which 23 people died in 1958, he added: “Anyone singing about either tragedy associated to either club ... doesn’t represent majority of fans or clubs themselves. Simple.”

Liverpool Echo sports editor David Prentice, who was at tonight’s first-leg match, which Liverpool won 2-0, was among those to speak out over the chants.

He tweeted: “Manchester United fans let themselves down spectacularly with that chant. Plenty of saddened head shaking in the press box.”

Many Manchester United fans were quick to denounce the chanting and distanced themselves from their travelling supporters.

One said: “I’m ashamed of the fans who are singing about Hillsborough. Just want to say sorry to any Liverpool fans, I don’t take any pride in this.”

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