Z Cars - a tune which lets Kopites know you're in the home of the enemy and you're not welcome there.
The song which greets the Everton players as they charge onto the Goodison pitch in front of the blue and white hordes.
The song which, thankfully, I only usually have to hear once a year unless Sky are late cutting to the adverts before kick-off.
It is to Liverpudlians what You'll Never Walk Alone is to Evertonians, the song that you most associate with your most bitter rivals and one that I could never contemplate being played at Anfield.
Until today.
This might be a wild, ridiculous suggestion which could end up with loads of Reds calling me for everything but when Liverpool play Toulouse at Anfield on Tuesday night I'd love to hear George play Z Cars over the Anfield tannoy for one simple reason - little Rhys Jones.
Everyone knows what happened to Rhys and I don't know a single person who was not moved by the way his parents conducted themselves in last night's press conference.
As a blue, Z Cars was his song. The one that made him stand up to attention and his heart swell with pride when his hero Mikel Arteta and the rest of the Everton players ran out at Goodison.
He may have been a bluenose but he was one of us - a lad from Liverpool who lived for his football.
His family deserve our solidarity and I can think of no better way of showing it than putting our traditional football rivalries to one side if only for one night and playing the one song that meant the world to him.
Just as the families of the 96 - and the rest of us for that matter - took great solace from the Milan fans singing You'll Never Walk Alone in 1989, doing this would have exactly the same effect.
I haven't forgotten the solidarity that was shown to us by ordinary Everton fans in the aftermath of Hillsborough and this is our chance to repay the favour to at least one family of ordinary Evertonians in their darkest hour.
I know this is controversial and I know there will be those of you who think I'm talking nonsense but just think of the message doing something like this would send out to the rest of the world.
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Frank Hidderley wrote...
There on Tuesday,will certainly pause for thought,could of been one of mine,condolences to his Mum and Dad and family. YNWA
Posted by: Frank Hidderley | August 24, 2007 11:34 AM