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Does anyone else feel that enough is enough with this chant?

It was a bit of banter at first, but I think that should be let go now. The thing that did it for me was hearing our fans chanting it away to Bolton. I've always said about how pathetic United fans were for singing songs about hating Scousers when they're not even playing against us. I certainly don't want to hear our own fans doing the same, it's sad.

I realise it's probably in retaliation to opposition chants about us being racist, and I'd expect our fans to still be singing it on Saturday, but after that I'd be happy to see a line being drawn under it. We'll never move on from that slur if we keep rising to it ourselves.

I'm more sick of the 'we won it 5 times' song, to be honest. That CL final (and any CL football for that matter) was a long time ago. No wonder people always accuse us of living in the past.

Yes I fully agree Bar, it only makes us look foolish when we aren't even playing against them. In any case I'm not into this 'we hate mancs' bit either as I believe every club, its players, management and fans are entitled to respect, all this abusive chanting stuff only leads to trouble, theres no need for it and it only diminishes ourselves.

Yeah, it was funny the first time, not so much anymore. It makes us look petty and more than a little bit silly. One of the things I've always disliked about United is how they're constantly looking over their shoulder at us: "Are you watching Merseyside?", the whole "19" nonsense, etc. I thought, and hoped, that we were above all that, but it seems that a very vocal section of our support is not. I'd rather we just drop it altogether, but I realize that it will probably be sung this weekend. That should be the last we hear of it for a while though. It just sounds stupid when you're playing Bolton.

CarheeX, I get where you're coming from with the "5 times" chant. Every club has those sort of history-based chants. Chelsea still sings about Dennis Wise scoring at the San Siro in the 1996 Champions League. It's important to remember the past, but those types of chants (5 times, Istanbul is wonderful, etc.) should probably be used sporadically at best - perhaps only when we're playing in Europe, or if we're ever in Istanbul again.

Rumour is whenever Evra gets on the ball were all going to cheer him and clap him so he doesn't know what the [oops] is going on rofl

I think there will be a bit of taunting going on but I don't expect any serious stuff. Ferguson himself has warning the Utd fans about loss of allocation which has been going on. Liverpool fans also I feel dont want to inflame the situation as we are not on good ground.

id love to see that but doubt it will happen

What are you on about that's like saying we shouldn't sing anfield road as its about the past our club has a very rich history more than any others and we need to celebrate and remember all of it and let all these fly by night clubs like city and chelsea realise it takes more than money to make a great club .

exactly! whats the point in it all then? we may as well never sing at all if its about past glories. whats the point in winning if we cant sing about it after? doesn't matter if it was 1 year ago or 100 years ago if we won it im proud to sing about it!

Yes of course sing all the songs including those celebrating past glories, no problem with that, it's the abusive chants and provocation that is stupid and silly and just lowers our own standing in the sport and in the eyes of the public at large. LFC supporters are a cut above that sort of stuff, and we should protect our good name, as that makes a difference when you want to develop merchandising, sponsorship, naming rights, players and supporters, not to mention the allocation of seats for away fixtures.