Sports shop bosses have apologised after printing a Hillsborough slur on a Manchester United shirt.
A sick fan tricked an assistant at a Sports Direct store into printing “96 – not enough’’.
That is the number of Liverpool fans who perished in the 1989 FA Cup semi-final crush. Colm Jackson, 22, posted a photo of his shirt, which also bears the letters YSB – You Scouse Bastards – on Facebook and boasted he bought it in Manchester.
Insulted Liverpool fans threatened to boycott the chain’s five Merseyside branches.
Hillsborough family support group chairman Margaret Aspinall, whose 18-year-old son James died in the tragedy, said: “Sports Direct are worse than the guy who wanted to put it on his shirt.
“Printing that message is like inciting trouble. It’s an absolute disgrace.’’
Last night a spokesman for Sports Direct, owned by Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley, 46, said: “Sports Direct is very apologetic for this spiteful and abusive shirt.’’
Jackson added: “It was a really stupid thing to do.”
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Disgusting.