Liverpool have banned The Sun from all match coverage during and around games at Anfield. The Sun are also banned from the club's training ground in Melwood.
Press accreditations from any reporters covering games from The Sun will no longer be approved, and writers from The Sun will no longer be permitted to attend Liverpool home games - across all competitions - in their professional capacity.
Four days after the Hillsborough Disaster on 19 April 1989 - during which 96 people were killed during a fan crush at Sheffield Wednesday’s Hillsborough Stadium - The Sun ran a story headlined ‘The Truth’, in which it carried accusations from an anonymous policeman that Liverpool fans had "picked pockets of victims", "urinated on cops" and battered a policeman who was performing CPR on a victim.
These accusations have since been proven false. Last year, a jury found that the 96 victims were unlawfully killed. This followed a 27-year battle for justice led by the families of those lost.
Now almost 28 years on, Liverpool Football Club have taken action against the paper which flagrantly lied about its fans. As per The Guardian, the decision is understood to have been taken by Liverpool’s Boston-based owners, led by the financier John Henry, after club executives had discussions with families whose relatives were killed at Hillsborough.
BREAKING: Liverpool football club have banned The Sun over the paper's notorious coverage of Hillsborough under the headline The Truth. #lfc
— David Conn (@david_conn) February 10, 2017
