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There is a certain randomness to how football supporters - and particularly Liverpool supporters - come up with songs for their heroes.

The iconic 1964 BBC Panorama documentary filmed on the day the Reds clinched their first top flight title under Bill Shankly against Arsenal spoke of how Liverpudlians on the Spion Kop “appear to know intuitively when to begin singing together and seem mysteriously to be in touch with one another, with ‘Wacker’, the spirit of Scouse.”

That perhaps partially explains, even with the advent of the internet and social media enabling easy dissemination of ideas, how certain ditties like for example the latest homage to Jurgen Klopp to the tune of the Beatles’ ‘I Feel Fine’ can weave themselves almost instantly and seamlessly in the regular repertoire and you don’t have to trawl back too far through history to see how tunes for star players like Mohamed Salah, Luis Suarez and Fernando Torres swiftly embedded themselves into the collective consciousness.

There remains an inconsistency at times however as to which player gets a song that really takes off and who doesn’t. Joel Matip in recent years may have played a significant role in bringing the game’s top honours back to Anfield as well as the current stellar campaign which sees Liverpool potentially on the brink of immortality as they chase an unprecedented quadruple yet he is lucky to occasionally get a brief version of the two-tone clapped version of his surname once preserved for Kenny Dalglish. Even Jordan Henderson - the man who has now lifted virtually every major honour for the club both home and abroad - has had to wait years to hear songs in honour of him make it from the pub/internet onto the terraces in any recognisable volume.

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