Liverpool have blasted "offensive and inappropriate" homophobic chants aimed at Scotland star Billy Gilmour.
The 20-year-old from Ardrossan faced a barrage of abuse including sick 'rent boy' chants as the Reds clashed with Norwich yesterday.
Scotland international Gilmour, who joined Norwich on loan this season from Chelsea, was targeted by a section of Liverpool fans during the match which was won 3-0.
Liverpool reacted to a tweet posted by one of the club's fan groups, 'Kop Outs', which represents the LGBT+ community, who reported abuse aimed at the Scotland midfielder.
Kop Outs posted: 'Great result today marred by homophobic chanting by some of our fans targeting Chelsea loanee Billy Gilmour. If you can't support without resorting to bigoted nonsense, you don't understand YNWA [You'll Never Walk Alone].'
The Merseyside club added: "The chant is offensive and inappropriate - a message we have repeatedly communicated alongside Kop Outs.
"We urge supporters to remember the inclusive values of the club and to refrain from using it in the future."
Fans from both sides of the divide were outraged at the bigotted chanting aimed at the young Scot.
One tweeted: "'Glad you've said this but the fact that so many (particularly younger) fans don't see why that chant is homophobic shows there is still so much work to do in combatting the rampant homophobia in football."
Diogo Jota, Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah scored for Liverpool on Saturday as they got their 2021-22 league campaign off to a flying start.
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