Liverpool and football unites to pay tribute to Nelson Mandela, who has died aged 95

Tributes have poured in from Liverpool and football fans for the late former South African president Nelson Manela, who died on Thursday, aged 95.

Freedom campaigner Mr Mandela spent 27 years in prison before leading South Africa’s during transition from white-minority rule in the 1990s.

Mr Mandela had been suffering from a long-term lung infection.

“What made Nelson Mandela great was precisely what made him human. We saw in him what we seek in ourselves,” President Jacob Zuma is quoted by the BBC as saying.

“Fellow South Africans, Nelson Mandela brought us together and it is together that we will bid him farewell.”

Mr Mandela met Liverpool players at a United Bank Soccer Festival friendly match at Ellis Park Stadium in May 1994.

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