I can see why not (in those words at least).Imagine if he followed it up by saying ‘and then those dirty rats went to Heysel and broke up the best Everton side there ever was by getting English teams banned from Europe’…
Strangely, he did not
Be good if they mention it every so often though, as I've heard it by foreign ones.... Oh well, it's because the media in the UK is against them obviously.