IS it me or has anyone else noticed the shameful way that some fans embarrass their team when they're supporting them away from home? writes Mick Jones

I'm not talking about hooliganism. I'll leave that to the tabloids when they've nothing else to print.

No, I want to talk about singing. Some fans make a go of it and then there's the others like Liverpool, Arsenal, West Ham and Aston Villa.

I'm not sure which they have less of. Is it brain cells or songs in their repertoire? Over the last few years, the same kind of thing seems to have happened to these fans. They've run out of decent songs.

Go on, if you disagree, name some. Alright, Liverpool have the tiresome "You'll never walk alone" which they stole from Celtic but let's not get bogged down there, West Ham have their bubbles to blow, Arsenal sing about Vieira's birthplace and Villa have nothing worth mentioning at all.

That's a grand total of three songs between them.

Somewhere, Liverpool have added singing "Liverpool" over and over again. I suppose it is appropriate though as it grinds you down until you're bored to tears pretty much the same way the team does. So much for the so-called Scouse wit.

You think a team as full of ideas as Arsenal could inspire their fans but it's sadly not true. Perhaps that just goes to show how many new found fans turn up to watch them these days.

After they realised they didn't have anything new to sing, they all seemed to give up. They all fit into the same bracket of sitting there quietly until 30 minutes in when they decide to try.

"Shall we sing a song for you?" they ask, leaving you wondering if your hearing's been playing up as you haven't heard anything from them so far. The only other way you'll hear anything is if they score and that doesn't last long.

They're not all that bad. Man United have recently attracted a lot of praise from the fans of other teams for not only the volume of the support but also the range of songs they sing.

For those of you in the know, this isn't exactly news. Any United fan will tell you they've sung most of them for years.

There's also a fan that helps create new songs that are funny or at least good enough to sing so they catch on.

A few of the other teams could do with this. At the moment, it seems that Liverpool have more Eurovision entrants than Anfield has Lennon and McCartneys.