Club will 'never forget' disaster

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Benitez was attending the launch of a song commemorating next month's 20th anniversary of the disaster.

Some of the city's best known musicians have recorded a version of the Kop anthem, The Fields Of Anfield Road, with former Liverpool FC players and members of the Hillsborough Families Support Group.

Benitez said: "I think it's important to show support for the fans and the families."

Recalling his first season at Anfield when he first attended a Hillsborough memorial service, he added: "It was very emotional for me, for all the players, it was something we will never forget. I think you can feel it (the loss) in every single game, what it means for the fans."

The disaster, on 15 April 1989, happened at Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest when Liverpool fans at the Leppings Lane end of Sheffield Wednesday's Hillsborough stadium were crushed to death.

The Fields of Anfield Road, inspired by Peter St John's Irish folk ballad Fields of Athenry, has been reworked by the Anfield faithful over the years with different verses about favourite past LFC managers.

Artists John Power of the La's and Cast, Peter Hooton of The Farm, Nick Kilroe from Echo and the Bunnymen, James Walsh of Starsailor and Rob Taylor of the Troubadours joined forces to record and produce the song.

Also on the track are the Kop Choir, made up of former Liverpool players Kenny Dalglish, Phil Thompson, John Aldridge, Bruce Grobbelaar, Howard Gayle and Alan Kennedy.

Among the relatives involved in the single was Pat Joynes, who lost her son, Nicholas, 27, a newly-married engineer. Mrs Joynes said: "Rafa told me the single was a good way to remember the 96, he said they would always be in the hearts of everyone at Liverpool Football Club."