AS MORE than 40,000 football fans joined together in one of the most heartfelt protests in the game's history, one mother sat alone and sobbed.
For six minutes at the start of Liverpool FC's FA Cup tie against Arsenal, chants of "justice for the 96" filled the stadium.
Angered by the BBC's decision to hire former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie, despite the Daily Post's revelations last month that he stood by the paper's infamous coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, they made sure the channel that was screening the match was in no doubt about their feelings.
Watching the scenes on her television at home was Jenni Hicks, who lost daughters, Sarah, 15, and Vicki, 19, in the tragedy.
She told the Daily Post: "It moved me to tears. To see that so many people still care after 17½ years was wonderful.
"I would like to say a heartfelt thank you to all the fans and the club, not just from me, but on behalf of my daughters, Sarah and Vicki, who lost their lives in the tragedy.
"I just sat and cried."
Last month, the Daily Post revealed how Mr MacKenzie told a crowd of businessmen: "I was not sorry then and I'm not sorry now" over the paper's infamous coverage of the Hillsborough disaster.
He insisted The Sun had only been reporting "the truth" when it accused Liverpool fans of stealing from and urinating on the dead, despite Lord Justice Taylor's official report completely discrediting such reports.
On Saturday, the infamous headline was reproduced in a giant mosaic covering the Kop by fans holding up cards, paid for by LFC. Others waved banners daubed "MacKenzie Sun Scum".
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