Hendo, I'll need an explanation for this

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Bayern fans sing it pretty often. As for 1860 fans. I think I've heard Borussia Dortmund fans sing it as well.

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I know Celtic and Dortmund sing it. I'm sure there are other European teams that do as well. I just didn't know Bayern did.

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Plus, I've always heard that Liverpool fans stole it from Manchester United fans anyway...

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Meh. I've read a lot about it. There are no recordings/video/publications of it so it's already sketchy. You would think that such an emotional moment at Old Trafford would have earned at least a paragraph in a newspaper the next day. And nobody knew about it until a woman made a claim in the 2000s. Regardless, some United fans do say that a version of the song was sung by an opera singer after the famous plane crash in the 50s. But even United historians doubt the validity of the claim.

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However, as researchers have observed, the composition and performance of the musical version compared to the popular Gerry Marsden version sounds completely different. "The Carousel rendering expresses an intimate operatic moment, an individual reassuring another during a time of grieving and despair. You listen and are moved, but you don't necessarily feel an overwhelming urge to join in. The Gerry & the Pacemakers version is at once more accessible and 'sing-along', the perfect vehicle for thousands voicing their solidarity, for the communal rush of emotion of a football crowd." Put another way, Hardwick may have been an aspiring teenage opera singer, but it's highly improbable the Old Trafford faithful joined her in belting out an operatic version of "You'll Never Walk Alone".

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Still, if it happened, it was a one time thing and LFC only adopted it (more than a decade later) after a Liverpool group released a "pop" cover of the song.