The game hadn't even kicked off at the City Ground on Saturday afternoon when the usual, outdated prod came from the home ends of Nottingham Forest.
"Sign on, sign on...and you'll never work again!" they sang before Paul Tierney had blown his whistle on a forgettable afternoon for Jurgen Klopp.
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But if Liverpool's travelling fans will have rolled their eyes at that particular terrace ditty, the one that came just five minutes later will have left them recoiling in disgust.
Well, at least it should have; only songs about the Hillsborough disaster have become depressingly all too common for the people of Merseyside. Less than a week after the club were forced to release a statement about the "vile chants" heard in the Manchester City end of last week's 1-0 win at Anfield, here was another disgraceful airing from the moronic and the mindless.
There were two things that jarred on this particular Saturday afternoon. Firstly, it was the quickness with which the Forest support launched into the familiar, abusive tropes Liverpool fans are seemingly having to hear every week right now with regards to the Hillsborough tragedy.
The match was only five minutes old when they resorted to telling their counterparts that it was 'never their fault' - a cruel jibe with inherent links to the disaster that took the lives of 97 Liverpool fans.
The second and most galling aspect of it was the fact that it could quite so easily have been the Forest fans in the Leppings Lane end back in April 1989. If this specific set of supporters cannot abstain from such disgusting terrace activity then what chance have Reds' followers got of avoiding this issue up and down the country every week?
It must be stressed the slurs were not sung to a man at the City Ground. The Hillsborough Survivors’ Support Alliance highlighted a number at the stadium who stood in solidarity over the tragedy, including a supportive banner in the home end. There were also a number of people of a Forest persuasion who took to social media to criticise the songs.
But only lip-service is being paid to calling this behaviour out beyond the Anfield bubble. More needs to be done by English football's authorities.
Manchester City's unwillingness to publicly call it out last week was a spineless dereliction of duty at the top end of the Etihad, but the hope is that Forest are at least more decisive and more compassionate given it was their club and their fans down the other end of pitch on that fateful day that not only claimed the lives of 97 people in our region but also changed the course of so many others in the process.
It needs to stop but it will only quieten when every football club who encounter it calls the act and the people perpetrating it out in the strongest possible terms. Until then the people most impacted by one of English football's darkest days will be forced to relive it all.
Man City may have been found wanting but Forest have a real opportunity to lead now.
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