I think 2002 must surely be a vintage year for connoisseurs of the football anthem.

There must be at least half a dozen doing the rounds, including versions by Ant and Dec and Terry Venables.

Strangely enough, the best-known of the anthems had no connection with football when they were written but were subsequently adopted by the world of soccer.

Verdi's Nessun Dorma sung by Luciano Pavarotti enjoyed enormous success when it was adopted as the theme tune for Italia 90.

Most famous of all the anthems must surely be the Jerry And The Pacemakers' 1963 recording of You'll Never Walk Alone.

Written by Richard Rogers and Oscar Hammerstein, it was already famous as the big hit song of their Forties' musical Carousel before being adopted as a football anthem.

Its popularity has never dimmed over the years and the composers could never have imagined in their wildest dreams they had penned the greatest of all terrace chants.

-Michael Parker, Lewes Road, Brighton