Hillsborough: Robbie Fowler wants Evra & Suarez gesture
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Former Liverpool striker Robbie Fowler says Patrice Evra and Luis Suarez should lay floral tributes before Sunday's Premier League game between his old club and Manchester United.
Suarez was banned for eight matches for racially abusing Evra last season, while the match is the first at Anfield since the publication of the Hillsborough report.
"It would be nice for Luis Suarez to put some flowers at the United end regarding Munich, and for Patrice Evra to do so at the Kop," Fowler said.
"The two clubs do have a rivalry, but some things are far more important than football and this is one of them."
Fowler, 37, feels that Suarez should commemorate the Munich air disaster of 1958, in which eight Manchester United players and three club staff died, while Evra should pay tribute to the 96 Liverpool fans killed at the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough in 1989.
Suarez refused to shake Evra's hand before the start of the last meeting between the two sides, at Old Trafford last February.
Both clubs are understood to be confident that the pair will shake hands ahead of Sunday's game, where a number of tributes to the victims of the Hillsborough disaster are planned.
Two prominent United fans groups, the Manchester United Supporters Trust and the Stretford End Flags, have urged fans not to sing songs referring to the Hillsborough disaster.
The Munich air tragedy has been the subject of songs from a section of Liverpool fans, but the managers of both clubs have called for an end to such chants from both sets of supporters.
"Both clubs have a respect for each other, for what they have achieved in the game," added Fowler, who made 369 appearances during two spells with the Anfield club.
Liverpool go into Sunday's game without a win in the Barclays Premier League under Brendan Rodgers, but Fowler, capped 26 times by England, thinks the new manager needs to be given time.
"With the players he has at his disposal, he's doing alright, as long as everyone gives him time and has patience, which is what everyone at the club needs.
"It needs a little bit of stability and I reckon he is the man Liverpool need to progress, get better and start rising up that table again."
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I'm not saying turn a blind eye, but the media obsession with the negative side of football is 'feeding the trolls'.
The dead of Hillsborough and Munich, should never be used, as a means to unite 2 idiotic players and an unknown number, of what is loosely described as supporters from both clubs.
Robbie you mean well but please think very hard next time.
@6. I hate to say this but a handful of both our fans will always continue to chant "Hillsborough" or "Munich". The best way to resolve that would be to ban any fan caught singing such chants for life from both Anfield and Old Trafford.
Also expecting everyone to commemorate a disaster is pointless if it's not heartfelt, let the actual families mourn for their loved ones as they have lost the most.
Asking overpriced and distant footballers to make a false gesture is just plain stupid.
------------------------------- Boris apologised, too little too late. The real heroes in all of this are the families who had to live with their loved ones being blamed for their own deaths. They didn't have self pity, they had dignity and fight, more than you will ever have. Keep spouting your bile, its showing you for what you are.
Either you can't read. (I'm nor Liverpool, nor from there). Or your stupid.
Or your another Manu fan who thinks irony is really intelligent.
It was. In 1969.
It's the norm now and therefore boring.
Don't sing songs that can be applied to events where 96 people died.
What on earth is the racism row between evra&suarez got to fo with Hillsborough and Munich??? It's absolutely a stupid thing to suggest them laying flowers...It's like saying The killers of stepehn lawrence should lay flowers on the graves of the lives of soldiers lost in afghanistan to settle peace with stephen's mother??? what?
I'm sure the players know the importance of the situation. Stop this puerile rubbish. It's insulting to everyone.
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Oh really? So it's chanted at a HOME United game where you are playing WIGAN, 4 days after the Hillsborough report and in a week when the media has been full of revelations about the truth? Even your own supporters groups have apologised. Lets hope your ilk don't attend Anfield on Sunday!
Great. Please carry on. More rope please.