Manchester United Fans Chant About Hillsborough, Heysel Disasters vs. Liverpool

Thursday's UEFA Europa League match between Manchester United and Liverpool, the first ever in Europe between the two rivals, was soiled by a section of United fans who repeatedly taunted their Liverpool counterparts with chants referencing the Hillsborough and Heysel Stadium disasters.

However, per BBC's North West Tonight, UEFA have said the Red Devils will not be punished for the chants.

According to Goal.com, the fans sang, "The Sun was right, you’re murderers," in reference to a front-page story the newspaper ran in 1989, blaming Reds fans for what happened at Hillsborough. 

As Goal.com's Melissa Reddy shared, plenty of away fans took part in the chants:

Sports writer David Prentice could hear the chants inside the press box:

Liverpool were involved in two major stadium tragedies in the span of just a few years in the 1980s, as the Heysel tragedy in 1985 was followed by the disaster at Hillsborough in 1989.

United and Liverpool fans have been swapping insults, which the Anfield Wrap described as "terrace tragedy tennis," for years, and this incident is but the latest escalation. Liverpool beat Manchester United 2-0 on Thursday, and the two teams will meet at Old Trafford for the return leg in one week.