Director resigns after 'f***face' email

A director of Liverpool Football Club has resigned after sending an abusive response to an email from a fan.

Tom Hicks Jr, the son of co-owner Tom Hicks, initially sent a message to supporter Stephen Horner reading "idiot", The Times reports.

He followed this with an email stating: "Blow me, f**kface. Go to hell, I'm sick of you."

Horner had sent Hicks Jr a copy of an article in local newspaper the Liverpool Echo, which raised issues regarding the finances at the football club.

James McKenna, a spokesman for fan group Spirit of Shankly, which is committed to removing Hicks Sr and George Gillett Jr from the club, said: "Is this what the club has come to, that a board member can speak in such derogatory terms to a supporter but can go without censure or any public criticism?

"The conspiracy of silence which has followed this unsavoury incident is totally unbecoming of a club which has always prided itself on its relationship with the fans."

An official statement on the club's website this afternoon read: "Liverpool Football Club today announce that Thomas Hicks Jr has resigned as a director of both the club and its parent company Kop Holdings."