Feed the Scousers and Sign On songs about Liverpool are lazy, hostile and inaccurate

Then, at the start of the second half, they were just getting going with another blow of Sign on, sign on, a song about joblessness in Liverpool, when Abdoulaye Doucoure, wearing an Everton shirt, delivered a deliciously timely response by scoring what proved to be the game’s deciding goal.

It is that time of year again. Three days earlier, Newcastle supporters offered the same chorus about hunger, which was especially odd on many levels, starting with the fact that the NUFC Fans Foodbank is one of the biggest in the country. While Newcastle’s unemployment rates are higher than Liverpool’s, the scorer of the winner in the club’s previous game against Manchester United, Anthony Gordon, is from Merseyside.

Perhaps those singing the song had already forgotten about that. It would be interesting to hear Gordon’s thoughts about the chanting. He is yet to speak about it publicly. Then again, Wayne Rooney never did when he represented Manchester United, and their supporters sang the same songs at Goodison and Anfield.

Fair play, then, to Jack Robinson, who confronted his own supporters last Wednesday night while his team were losing to his former club, Liverpool. For a long time, Liverpool Football Club has been mocked by the rest of England. Victimpool has been a common moniker. It’s never your fault, it’s never your fault, always the victim, it’s never your fault a common song sung.

The origin of everything

When it came down to the ticketing issues for the weekend FA Cup tie, Liverpool were true to form and blamed everyone but themselves. Denied 9,000 seats due to safety reasons, they moaned it was not their fault and that they should get the lower and upper tier. The reasoning behind the denial of 9,000 was due to Liverpool’s history of persistent standing and use of flares. They do themselves no favours. As for the disgraceful interruption by their fans during the minute’s silence for Sir Tom Finney, their fans once more went the extra mile and highlighting that they are the shame of English football.