Everton pays tribute to fans who have died with Covid - and includes Anne Frank

Everton made a bizarre error in a tribute video it released on Saturday to local victims of the Covid-19 pandemic.

In a long video tribute posted on social media, the Premier League club strangely included a photo of Anne Frank.

Everton used a photo that pops up as the main one on Frank’s Wikipedia page, and one of the first photos that appears on her official website.

Why Frank - one of the most prominent victims of the Holocaust, who died in 1945 during World War II - was included in the tribute isn’t clear. The club eventually deleted the video and sent out a revised version, but has not commented on it.

The blunder caused quite a stir on social media.

Actress Yasmin A. Choudhury wrote: "This is when you know your marketing department don’t really care. They did it for clout. We know it. You know it.

"If you are really careful you would’ve checked it. I hope you make a donation to an anti-Semitic project group. #justsaying suggestion from this Muslim."

Another fan wrote: "It's pretty distasteful and ruins any genuine sentiment that might have been behind it."

For a number of reasons - most notably that Frank spent several years hiding from German persecution and had nothing to do whatsoever with the coronavirus pandemic - there's no logical excuse for Frank's face to be included in such a tribute video.