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Liverpool FC’s FA Cup opponents Exeter City have shown their class after printing a 96-page matchday programme in tribute to the Hillsborough victims.

The Grecians’ gesture was today praised by Hillsborough campaign groups and Reds fans.

Exeter’s programme is usually 82-pages long but club bosses decided to increase it to 96 pages for Friday night’s third round tie.

Oliver Roderick, Exeter City media manager, said: “This was always going to be a larger edition and we couldn’t think of a more fitting tribute then making it 96 pages.

“We have already received huge orders for it.”

The match programme will be available from ticket booths and spots around St James Park before the game.

The Hillsborough Justice Campaign tweeted “Lovely gesture from @OfficialECFC – thank you.”

Reds fan Tommy Anderson wrote: “Well done Exeter on the idea of 96 pages in the programme for Friday night #touchofclass”

A total of 96 people were killed during an FA Cup semi-final match between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989.

An inquest into the deaths was reopened in March last year and jurors heard the final day of evidence yesterday.

The court, in Birchwood Park, Warrington, has been adjourned until January 25th when the coroner Sir John Goldring will begin summing up the evidence.

Portraits of the 96 Liverpool fans lost at Hillsborough

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