The comedian Alan Davies has made a £1,000 (€1,200) donation to the Hillsborough Justice Campaign after comments he made about the club’s refusal to play on April 15th, the anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster, incurred the wrath of fans.

Liverpool’s policy has forced their semi-final against Everton to be played this Saturday, and thus pushed Chelsea’s match against Tottenham Hotspur to Sunday April 15th – three days before the first leg of their Champions League semi-final against Barcelona.

Davies suggested that the priority should have been to give Chelsea an extra day to prepare for that match.

“Liverpool and the 15th, that gets on my t**s that s**t,” said Davies on his football podcast, The Tuesday Club. “What are you talking about, ‘We won’t play on the day?’ Why can’t they? My mum died on August 22nd. I don’t stay in all day on August 22nd . . . Hillsborough is the most awful thing that’s happened in my life, in terms of football . . . But it’s ridiculous that they refuse to play on that day any more.”