Liverpool vs Manchester United: Jose Mourinho pleads with fans to not sing about Hillsborough or Munich disasters

JOSE MOURINHO has backed calls to end the sick chanting between Manchester United and Liverpool fans.

Previous meetings have been marred by both sets of fans referencing Hillsborough and the Munich air crash in chants.

A joint statement from both clubs was issued on Thursday calling for calm between the fans ahead of Monday night’s Premier League clash at Anfield.

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And United boss Mourinho said: “In football we have some football tragedies; if you can speak of them like that, which is the big match we lost, some mistake a player did and you can make fun of that in some way.

“But the human tragedy is something much more serious, and I think is the last thing somebody should use in a football pitch because they were really big tragedies.

“So I would be really sad if in such a big football match that was a negative point.”

Mourinho has had his ups and downs on trips to Anfield with Chelsea but admits this clash will be on another level between English football’s most successful clubs and fiercest rivals.

Mourinho said: “Obviously I have never played this match, but I played many times against Liverpool, many times against Manchester United, I understand the dimension of the clubs and now I understand better the dimensions of two big historical rivals.

“I look forward to it, yes, I always like to play at Anfield. I won many times there, I also lost. I won big matches, I lost big matches, so I cannot say I like to go there because I'm always successful, because it's not true.

“I like the atmosphere, normally the characteristics of the matches, but being Manchester United manager means something more because we cannot compare the historic rivalry between my former club and United and Liverpool.

“It can be comparable to Real Madrid v Barcelona, Benfica v Porto, these kind of matches.”