For years, United have had to endure vile chants from sections of Manchester City and Liverpool fans, mocking the dead of Munich. The air disaster in Germany in 1958 killed eight of our players, and those fans haven’t missed any opportunities to remind us about it, often singing songs of icy runways amongst other despicable lyrics.

Manchester City fans to this day refer to United fans as “Munichs”. They even have a new song that’s been sung at every game this season, “Carlos Tevez is a blue, he hates Munichs”.

I haven’t seen this mentioned at all in the press. No media outcry, no statements of dissatisfaction from the club, Sir Alex and the players just ignored it and got on with playing football.

Now contrast that with the chants aimed at Arsene Wenger at the weekend. While not quite as sickening as mocking the dead, it’s certainly distasteful enough for me to opine that it should never be sung at Old Trafford.

We’ve got one of the biggest song books in the league so I’d like to think we could sing better, classier songs than that. While it must be said that the chant was rather muffled on Saturday due to a large number of reds boycotting it, the fact remains that it should not be sung at all.

The reaction of the press was somewhat different to the reaction to the Munich chants. The media are going to town on it, The guardian even labelling us “cretins”. Manchester United are involved so they have to make a big deal of it, whilst simultaneously ignoring the antics of other fans. Why was there no media outcry in response to the Munich chants? Why was the Guardian not calling the City fans “cretins” for mocking the dead of Munich? The media are supposed to provide a balanced and neutral service to inform us of ALL chants like this, not pick and choose which chants are worthy of discussion and which are not.

I even read in the Telegraph yesterday that Manchester City are concerned that an Emmanuel Adebayor chant will be sung by United fans when the massive club visit Old Trafford later this month.

I must admit I read it with a hint of disbelief. It is perhaps the most hypocritical claim ever. How can one club be worried about chants from rival fans, when their own fans regularly praise a disaster that killed 23 people, including one of their own?

What’s worse is that the Telegraph had the idiocy to print it.

Every club’s fanbase has its set of scumbags that do not represent the vast majority of good fans, but to so publicly call one set of fans “cretins” while another set of fans is behaving even worse, is displaying a severe case of selective hearing that unfairly depicts our fans as classless while letting the others off scot free.

Is neutral journalism too much to ask for?