PFA boss: 'The last thing I intended to do was upset anyone'

The head of the footballers' union has apologised after he compared Ched Evans's situation with the Hillsborough disaster.

Gordon Taylor told BBC Radio Merseyside: "The last thing I intended to do was to upset anybody connected to the Hillsborough case."

The chief executive of the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) prompted a storm of controversy after it emerged that convicted rapist Evans's proposed move to Oldham Athletic had collapsed amid threats to club staff and their families.

In his earlier comments, Mr Taylor told BBC Radio 5 Live: "He would not be the first person or persons to have been found guilty and maintained their innocence and then been proved right.

"If we are talking about things in football, we know what happened, what was alleged to have happened at Hillsborough. And it's now unravelling and we are finding it was very different to how it was portrayed at the time - indeed by the police at the time."