"I have not done anything": Husband-to-be, 26, BANNED from football after screaming vile words at Liverpool fans during Premier League game
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA husband-to-be who was caught screaming 'murderers' at Liverpool fans has been banned from football matches for three years.
Burnley fan Matthew Shirt, 26, was heard shouting the vile 'tragedy baiting' chant at Liverpool supporters at Anfield. Shirt, an electrician, was reported to police and later claimed he was just repeating words he had heard before and didn't know what they meant.
He has been ordered to pay £925 and handed a criminal record over the chanting, which references the Heysel Stadium disaster. READ MORE: 'No baby should have to go through that and no parent should ever have to watch...
it’s absolutely heartbreaking' The chant has been a familiar taunt at Liverpool games and is a reference to the Heysel Stadium disaster in Belgium in 1985 in which Juventus fans escaping an attack by Liverpool fans before the start of the European Cup final were crushed to death when a wall collapsed.
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