It was just a few minutes into Liverpool's first game at Kenilworth Road for 15 years when a terrace anthem as outdated as it is familiar greeted the supporters in the away end.
"Sign on! Sign on!" crowed the Luton Town fans in hideous fashion. It's a football chant that has its roots firmly in stereotypes of the 1980s but if it was one that would have made eyes roll from a Liverpool perspective, the next one made them recoil in disgust.
"Always the victims, it's never your fault."
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Songs about the Hillsborough disaster have become depressingly all too common for the people of Merseyside. Having been forced to listen to them from the likes of Manchester City and Nottingham Forest followers last year, Luton Town's fans decided it was a fight they wanted to take on too during the opening exchanges of Sunday's 1-1 draw.
The speed at which the fans of a team who hadn't played Liverpool in a league game at Kenilworth Road since 1991 launched into tragedy chanting was jarring. English football has come a long way since the Reds' most recent league visit 32 years ago but it seems some attitudes remain firmly entrenched in that bygone, pre-Premier League era.
To his credit, the chants were called out live on air by Sky Sports pundit and Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher, who remarked: “At the start of the season, I was involved in something about tragedy chanting and supporters coming together. I have just heard something a couple of times in this game. Supporters have got to have rivalry but we are better than that. A lot of clubs have been guilty
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