Sorry, Dave Bryant, but...

Football Fans ? Sing ?

I have difficulty in reconciling these two mutually incompatible concepts. The average UK football fan learns ditties with 2 or 3 lines only, with words not more than two syllables at most, and usually produces notes between two and seven tones flatter than the scored notes (if any).

Apologists for these hordes whose semen count depends on David Beckham returning to health could certainly argue with some justification that the racket they produce could not be defined as "singing" in any sense of the word.

And unfortunately, we are shortly to suffer from a mass outbreak of hysteria on the part of these fans and many more people in Britain who should have more sense, as the World Cup (that's the "Real" World, as opposed to the US World) gets under way.