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A man was thrown out of a pub for wearing a t-shirt with a disgusting slur about the Hillsborough disaster victims.

A photo of the customer was widely shared on social media showing him sitting at a table in the beer garden of the Brewers Arms, in Worcester.

Wording in white on the back of the black top suggested the 1989 disaster, in which 96 people died, was “Gods way” of helping a pest control company.

We have chosen not to show the words printed on the t-shirt.

The photo provoked a furious response from Twitter users and Liverpool supporters – but the pub’s landlord Mark Daniels said the man was thrown out as soon as soon as staff noticed his t-shirt.

Responding to Twitter questions about the incident he said the man had also been barred from the Brewers Arms and called his actions “disgusting”.

There was no answer when the ECHO called the pub tonight but on Twitter Mr Daniels said he had received threatening calls and tweets.

A post on the pub’s official Twitter account said: “This has devistated me and my family I didn’t print buy or wear that discusting shirt I removed him when alerted couldn’t do anymore gutted.”

In response to a Liverpool fan who said he was proud of the pub’s actions Mr Daniels said: “getting threatening calls and all sorts all I done was the right thing?”

Support for the pub has since flooded in, with many appealing for the pub’s staff and management to be praised, not vilified, for their actions.

Football writer Jim Boardman said on Twitter: “No need to give stick to @the_brewersarms, they deserve praise for standing up to ignorance. Sound like good people.”

And @pboro5times said: “Great work by the management and staff to get rid of the lowlife in the anti Hillsborough t-shirt asap.”

Lou Brookes, whose brother Andrew was 26 when he died at Hillsborough, lives in Bromsgrove, Worcestershire.

And she urged Twitter users against sharing the photo.

She said: “I personally don’t like posting the photo. People mean well in sharing it. But when they retweet the photo, with those words, it’s giving him the attention he wants.

“I think he’s a sick individual. It baffles me that he’s gone out of his way to have that printed on a t-shirt and why he’s wasting so much time and energy on our 96, who he obviously has so much contempt for.

“He needs to concentrate on more productive things - he’s obviously got a very boring and sad life to be able to do that.”

Lou added: “The landlord of the pub does not deserve abusive messages because of that idiot going into his pub. He’s now been thrown into the media spotlight and it’s not his fault.”

Last month, 27 years on from the Hillsborough disaster, a jury found the 96 who died were unlawfully killed at the FA Cup semi-final.

The jury also found Liverpool fans played no role in causing the disaster, blaming it on a catalogue of failings from the authorities, including South Yorkshire Police.