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Ex-editor MacKenzie compares Everton’s Barkley to a gorilla

Liverpool Mayor Joe Anderson durged Everton to stand in solidarity with their Merseyside rivals and ban the Sun from Goodison Park after a derogatory article about Ross Barkley was published yesterday, a day before the 28th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster.

Liverpool banned the paper in February from attending matches at Anfield as well as news conferences at their Melwood training ground for the paper’s disgusting coverage of the disaster in which 96 fans tragically lost their lives.

Anderson said it was a “slap in the face” that the Sun was still allowed at games after Sun columnist Kelvin MacKenzie wrote a disgusting article about the midfielder, in which was was compared to a gorilla.

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