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Liverpool FC legend John Aldridge is 'sickened' after finding a TV interview he did for broadcasters appeared on The S*n’s website.

Aldridge said he felt “physically sick” when footage of him speaking outside his house about the departure of Steven Gerrard appeared with The S*n’s logo.

He told the ECHO: “Anyone who thinks I’d have anything to do with that rag doesn’t know me at all.

“I only did interviews with the BBC, Sky and ITV.

“This just shows the lengths they will go to to embarrass me and my city.

“I was there on the pitch that day, I went to 11 funerals and I’ve backed the Hillsborough campaign to the hilt.

“They’ve tried to speak to me for 25 years and I’ve told them to p*** off every single time.

“They’ve offered me money, everything but I’ve always slammed the door in their face.

“The pain they caused me, the players, the management and this city, the city that I love, will never go away.

“I’m absolutely disgusted, it makes me feel sick after everything they’ve done to us.

“Apparently, they are allowed to sell footage to newspapers, but the only reason The S*n will want it is to embarrass me and cause us all more pain and hurt.”

The tweet appeared this afternoon and was met with shock and confusion by dozens of fans.

Aldridge played during the fatal game at Hillsborough, and has previously said that if he wasn’t a player, he’d have “been in there in the Leppings Lane stand.”

After 96 men, women and children died at Hillsborough in 1989, Merseyside was sickened by the front page story ran in The S*n saying fans were “drunk” and “looting”.

Justice campaigners have battled ever since against the paper and its disgraced then-editor, Kelvin Mackenzie.

Mackenzie was re-hired as a columnist for the paper this week.

Supportive fans defended the striker, who made 83 appearances for the club, saying “they knew” he would never have dealings with the paper.

Fan Sarah-Louise Campbell said: “John is a lovely man who love his home city and his old club and would never disrespect the people of Liverpool. He does so much for charity and all round good bloke in my eyes and many more.”

Another, Dawn Flynn, added: “Worry not John, all the true LFC fans know that you would not anything to do with that rag.”

Meanwhile on Twitter, where Aldridge furiously attacked the paper, fans replied with their support for the football legend and dismay at The S*n’s decision.

@GAZLFC13 wrote: “All us #LFC fans know Aldo wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole!”

The S*n soon removed the tweet and the interview from their website.

Aldridge went on to thank fans for their support, and said: “I’d like to thank all my followers for realising that in 25 years I’ve stayed clear of that paper and always will.”

Granada News, who conducted one of the interviews outside Aldridge’s home, told the ECHO they do not syndicate interviews and the footage was not theirs.

The S*n were approached by the ECHO for comment but did not return the calls.

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