United receive apology from Liverpool

Manchester United has received a formal apology from Liverpool FC after United fans were attacked at last months FA cup game at Anfield.

Liverpool FC and Merseyside Police have carried out an investigation into the incidents reported.  United fans were pelted with coins and food at last months cup game and at one point there was an incident of human excrement being thrown...

Liverpool stadium and operations manager Ged Poynton has written to United admitting standards of behaviour had "fallen short" of that expected.  Poynton added in the News of the World: "We hold our hands up as a club.  We deplore what certain fans have done.  "I use the word coward very reservedly but I class anyone who wants to throw a coin or something else when they are leaving as cowards.  "I am ashamed to admit in one case excrement was thrown.  How low can you get?  We did what we could, we tried to brush people down and compensate those involved."

Tensions between the rivals had been running higher than usual going into the February 18 match - won 1-0 by Liverpool - after a controversial end to a Premiership encounter between the sides the previous month.

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