AFTV month, the channel came under criticism for a video they posted in association with "The Sun" newspaper. The video featured Robbie and regulars DT and Ty, and it received backlash from many football fans, especially Liverpool supporters, who had boycotted "The Sun" due to controversial information on the Hillsborough disaster in 1989, which killed 96 Liverpool fans, which included allegations of Liverpool urinating on Police Officers and pickpocketing from dying supporters. Liverpool had recently banned the newspaper from attending press conferences and Everton also followed, following an article posted about Ross Barkley, which they had compared him to a gorilla
John Smith (chairman of Liverpool FC) of shirt sponsorship in British football in the early 1980s. As well as overseeing Liverpool's glories of the 1970s and 1980s, he also oversaw the Hillsborough disaster in April 1989, which claimed the lives of 96 Liverpool fans at an FA Cup semi-final tie. John married Doris Mabell Parfitt in 1946, and remained married to her until his death in 1995. Smith was knighted in 1989 "for services to sport". John Smith (chairman of Liverpool FC) Sir John Wilson Smith (6 November 1920 – 31 January 1995) was the former chairman of Liverpool F.C. from 1973 to 1990. John Smith