Liverpool, as a club and as a fanbase, have become embroiled in fights they would rather have side-stepped in recent weeks.
Reds games of late have been marred by chants that have no place on the terraces and have led to many questioning if any of it is actually worth the trouble as a result.
From disgusting songs about the Hillsborough and Heysel tragedies to goading references to The S*n newspaper and, to a lesser extent, pro-Monarchy sentiments that have misguidedly been designed to bait, there's been a lot of unsavoury stuff aimed in the Reds' direction of late.