A rather farcical situation has presented itself as UEFA brought charges upon both Liverpool and Manchester United for their fans' behaviour at Old Trafford on St.Patrick's Day as the sides met in the Europa League, but the charges appear to be incredibly inconsistent.
A report compiled by a UEFA delegate from Belgium who attended the match has been referenced in charging Liverpool for singing 'illicit chants', but weren't both sets of fans guilty of that?
The United away fans could be audibly heard chanting 'Murderers' in reference to the Hillsborough and Heysel disasters, much to the utter embarrassment of reasonable human beings everywhere, while Liverpool fans responded with the equally deplorable 'Munich' chants to mock the United players who died in the Munich air disaster of 1958, but NEITHER of those incidents were mentioned in the report.
Instead, Liverpool have been charged for singing 'Manchester is full of shit.'
Seriously. Express.co.uk were among the first to report on the charges brought down by UEFA.
LIVERPOOL were charged with illicit chanting by Uefa after their supporters sang "Manchester is full of s***" during the Europa League clash with Manchester United.
Along with illicit chants Liverpool were charged with setting off fireworks, the throwing of objects, crowd disturbances and the late kick off of the second half.
United were charged with blocking stairways, crowd disturbances and the throwing of objects. They have not been charged with illicit chanting.
That is quite frankly a joke. Ask any Manchester United fan if they are offended by other teams (and it's pretty much every team that visits Old Trafford, by the way) claiming that Manchester is, in fact, full of shit, and they will tell you 'No..'.
It makes you wonder how UEFA can take themselves seriously when they are going to ignore the disgusting chants from both sides, which were audible to everyone watching at home, and then clamp down on a silly little bit of slagging?
The investigation has not yet concluded, and both clubs will have a chance to offer their explanation of events before a decision is reached on May 19th.
