At Goodison Park earlier this month, Arsenal fans joined in with a heart-warming minute's applause for tragic Arthur Labinjo-Hughes - the toddler tortured and starved by his abhorrent father and stepmother.
Then in the next breath they sang "Feed the Scousers".
The juxtaposition was as brainless as it was vile.
But then precious little thought goes into football chants masquerading in the name of 'banter'.
Celebrating food poverty is just the latest inequality to be seized upon by thoughtless football fans.
The "Feed the Scousers" song has been around since 1984, when Band Aid recorded a record which raised £8million for the starving of Africa.
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Thirty seven years on and we clearly do not live in more enlightened times.
The repugnant chants celebrating unemployment have been going even longer.
They were there again at Molineux on December 4 when Wolves fans gleefully chanted “Sign On!”, “You’ll never get a job!”, and “With a pen, in your hand” to Liverpool fans.
Newcastle supporters could be then heard singing '"Feed the Scousers" in the away end at Anfield on December 16.
So, too, Leicester City fans against Liverpool in last night's Carabao Cup quarter-final clash here on Merseyside.
Long, loud and utterly shameless.
Those sign on chants were first aired during the early Thatcher years when unemployment on Merseyside was almost 20 per cent - even higher in inner city areas.
It was a pointed response to Everton and Liverpool's domination of football at that time.
Most clubs couldn't get at Merseyside on the pitch, so they tried to do it off it, by laughing at the heart-rending despair of unemployment and families torn asunder by the economic tragedies wrought upon a city in the 1980s.
It was about as funny as Jim Davidson. Or Bernard Manning.
Almost four decades on 'modern' football fans are still trotting them out in the name of 'banter'.
But the biggest laugh of all?
Those sets of supporters who were chanting 'Feed the Scousers' and 'Sign On' in recent fixtures saw their side lose to time added-on goals (Wolves 0 Liverpool 1, Everton 2 Arsenal 1), another was soundly beaten (Liverpool 3 Newcastle 1), and just last night, conceded an injury-time equaliser before losing on penalties (Liverpool 3 Leicester 3).
Now that was funny.
