Liverpool have been criticised for their unrelenting support for Luis Suarez by Kick It Out chairman Lord Ouseley.

The Uruguay international was found guilty of racial abuse against Patrice Evra in The Reds’ 1-1 draw with Manchester United back in October, and handed an eight-match ban.

Despite this, the Anfield club’s players wore t-shirts with Suarez’s face on it as a mark of support in a recent warm-up, and Kenny Dalglish has been adamant in his backing of the player.

This conduct is deemed as hypocritical by Ouseley, who feels the Merseysiders are guilty of double standards.

“Liverpool FC need to take a hard look at themselves and how they have responded to the complaint and the investigations into the allegations of abuse in the Patrice Evra/Luis Suarez case,” he stated to The Guardian.

“Throughout the entirety of the proceedings, over the past three months, all we have heard are denials and denigration of Evra. Since the publication of the 115-page report of the findings of the FA’s independent commission, Liverpool’s vitriol has increased.

”Suarez’s attempt at a belated apology is nothing short of lamentable. I cannot believe that a club of Liverpool’s stature, and with how it has previously led on matters of social injustice and inequality, can allow its integrity and credibility to be debased by such crass and ill-considered responses.

”Liverpool have been particularly hypocritical. You can’t on the one hand wear a Kick It Out T-shirt in a week of campaigning against racism when this is also happening on the pitch: it’s the height of hypocrisy.

”Liverpool players wore a T-shirt saying: ‘We support Luis Suarez’, seemingly whatever the outcome. This was a dreadful knee-jerk reaction because it stirs things up,” he concluded.

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