Piped tannoy atmosphere? Too PC for me

MY favourite hack amongst the Sunday newspaper pack at Old Trafford is a chap called Simon Mullock on the Sunday Mirror, who is rarely found wanting when it comes to Mancunian football knowledge and banter, being a born and bred Manc. (Incidentally, he is well-known to Mr Kelly of these pages, who apparently frequently lambasts Mullock online for allegedly being anti-scouse and a Red.

Simon has told me to tell you, Stephen, that he is not actually a United fan but a very bitter City fan, a fact I can confirm.

Anyway, Mullock made a rare mistake on Sunday when he wrote: “Ji-Sung Park will never be the first name that Alex Ferguson pens on his team sheet. He doesn’t even warrant a song or two from the Stretford End”. We beg to differ, as the crowd made plain on Saturday in a typically O.T.T and non-PC way. The hitherto favourite (“Park, Park, wherever you may be/You eat dogs in your home country”) has now been replaced by this ditty: “He shoots, he scores, he’ll eat your Labrador.” Revolting, in both content and ideology perhaps, but that’s football fans for you.