However, Ayre insists Liverpool will brief their players on how to deal with any racist incidents, should they occur.
"The most important thing for our players is that they remain professional throughout this," he said.
"We certainly won't tolerate that type of attitude or any of those types of incidents from our team. So the important thing is that we let them know how we expect them to act if there is an incident.
"I'd much rather we take the incident off the pitch and we deal with it. But we'll be briefing our players on what's acceptable and what's not."
All they have is words. No one takes anything they do at face value any more. They may not have become everything that they despise, but most certainly have become everything everybody else despises.
Their decent fans (who DO exist) must be appalled. I suggest they give their support to the more deserving club in our City.