Jamie Carragher calls out Luton Town fans for sick chants heard live on Sky Sports
JAMIE CARRAGHER called out Luton Town fans for disgusting chants heard during their Premier League match with Liverpool.
The Hatters were in action against the Reds on Saturday, when TV cameras picked up the vile taunts from a minority number of the home crowd.
Anfield legend Carragher was in the gantry co-commentating on the match for Sky Sports.
He said during the game: “At the start of the season I was involved in something about tragedy chanting and supporters coming together. I have just heard something a couple of times in this game.
“Supporters have got to have rivalry but we are better than that. A lot of clubs have been guilty of that over the years but football fans are better than that.”
In the summer, the Premier League said they would clamp down on clubs whose fans were caught taunting the opposition in such a horrific manner.
A statement read: “Premier League clubs unanimously agreed at the Annual General Meeting today to a series of new measures to address the unacceptable rise in anti-social behaviour involving football tragedy-related chanting, gesturing, graffiti, online abuse and other behaviours last season.
“The measures are the output of a cross-football working group which was set up in December to explore available options to challenge the normalisation of such distasteful behaviours and incidents.
“The issues have continued to cause significant distress to the victims’ families, survivors and affected club supporters, in addition to damaging the reputation of the clubs involved and football in England and Wales.
“The action will focus on criminal prosecution, the regulatory environment, enforcement, online abuse, education and communications.”
Liverpool supporters have heard vile chants mocking the 1989 Hillsborough tragedy, when 97 fans lost their lives during a FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest before.
The clash between Liverpool and Luton ended 1-1 after a dramatic late equaliser from Luis Diaz.
In recent weeks, Man City blasted a section of their own fans for disgraceful chants heard in the stands following Man Utd legend Bobby Charlton’s death.
A club statement said: “We are extremely disappointed to have learned of reports of offensive chanting from a small number of individuals about Sir Bobby Charlton in some of the concourses.
“The club condemns these chants in the strongest terms, and apologises unreservedly to the family and friends of Sir Bobby, and to all those at Manchester United.
“On this day of all days, when the stadium stood to pay tribute to our own legend in Francis Lee, Manchester City supporters should understand and appreciate as keenly as anyone the need for respect in our game.
“Our security team are studying CCTV footage of the concourse areas.
“We are thankful to those who have already come forward to report this matter.
“We continue to appeal for any information that can help us identify the individuals involved, so that we can take the appropriate action to issue banning orders.”