Liverpool supervisor Jurgen Klopp and Manchester United counterpart Erik ten Hag have urged followers to chorus from singing chants about their golf equipment’ historic tragedies forward of their match on Sunday.

Liverpool and United meet on Tremendous Sunday, reside on Sky Sports activities, however current matches between the 2 golf equipment have been marred by teams of followers singing and mocking the opposite membership’s tragedies together with Hillsborough, Heysel and Munich.

Final April’s match at Anfield noticed United come out after the match to sentence the “fully unacceptable” chants about Hillsborough from their very own followers, which got here simply days after the anniversary of the tragedy.

Now, Liverpool and United have written a joint open letter, urging followers to suppose once more earlier than singing the chants.

Within the assertion, Klopp stated: “One of many principal explanation why the rivalry between Liverpool and Manchester United is so particular is that it’s so intense and nobody ought to ever need to change this.

“However on the identical time, when the rivalry turns into too intense it will possibly go to locations that aren’t good for anybody and we don’t want this.

“We do need the noise; we do need the event to be partisan and we do need the ambiance to be electrical. What we don’t want is something that goes past this and this is applicable particularly to the type of chants that don’t have any place in soccer. If we will preserve the eagerness and lose the poison, it will likely be so a lot better for everybody.”

In the meantime, Ten Hag stated: “The rivalry between Manchester United and Liverpool is among the best in world soccer. All of us love the eagerness of the followers when our groups meet, however there are traces that shouldn’t be crossed.

“It’s unacceptable to make use of the lack of life – in relation to any tragedy – to attain factors, and it’s time for it to cease. These accountable tarnish not solely the fame of our golf equipment but in addition, importantly, the fame of themselves, the followers, and our nice cities.

“On behalf of myself, our gamers, and our workers, we ask our followers to deal with supporting the crew on Sunday, and representing our membership in the suitable method.”

The Hillsborough incident of 1989 noticed 97 Liverpool followers lose their lives at Sheffield Wednesday’s stadium throughout their FA Cup semi-final towards Nottingham Forest, in scenes much like the Heysel tragedy of 4 years earlier the place 39 soccer supporters had been killed in a crowd catastrophe on the European Cup remaining between the Merseyside membership and Juventus.

In the meantime, the Munich catastrophe noticed 23 individuals killed after a flight carrying the Manchester United crew again from their European Cup match in Belgrade crashed whereas making an attempt to take off in Munich-Reim Airport.