October 30, 2004

Football chants were brought into the limelight last Tuesday when Millwall fans chanted "one Boris Johnson, there's only one Boris Johnson" and less amusing things at Liverpool fans. The phenomenon is explained by Wikipedia, and earlier in the year a chant laureate was selected. There is a huge (and rather undiscriminating) collection here.
posted by Plegmund 20 years ago
  • All we are saying is give us a goooal All we are saying is give us a goooal etc Heh!
  • Always shit on the north side of the Trent, we do, we do we do we do...
  • We hate Coca-Cola We hate Fanta too....it's sh*te! We come from Scotland And we drink Irn Bru
  • Norwich City Chant:Yankee Doodle Author: Sean Kelly Delia Smith's a brilliant cook She feeds our whole team porridge She makes a cracking steak au poivre But that don't rhyme with Norwich! Chorus: We don't care and we're all right You're a bunch of fairies We're the Kings of Carrow Road We are the Canaries! Robbie Green's so brave and true He's well known for his courage Naturally there is just one Club for him, and that's Norwich! Darren Huckerby is great He's always on the forage He'd really like to score some goals But that don't rhyme with Norwich! The famous chant contest is here We wish we'd been to college We didn't, so we didn't learn More words to rhyme with Norwich!
  • ))))) for Sean Kelly! And thanks to Todfox for unearthing that!
  • Great stuff, Plegmund! Over on this side of the pond we're sadly much less inventive when it comes to chanting but hockey has some truly bizarre traditions.
  • Nice to know that "hat trick" has achieved a new resonance in hockey, islander. I wonder how these things get started - if only one fan threw his hat, the rest would presumably dismiss him as a loony?
  • I prefer a good supporting song like when we sing Blue Moon at Gresty Road or the Geordies do Blaydon Races, but the Man U era song for Cantona "He's French, he's flash, he's fucking Lesley Ash" was funny at the time.
  • Reminds me of one I found in an early 20th century yearbook at my alma mater. *first, slaps geek sticker on forehead* e^x! e^x! e^x! dx, dx!
  • These guys have got about a million of 'em.
  • Arsene Wenger's magic He wears a magic hat! And when he saw the double, He said "I'm 'avin that!" 'AVIN THAT!
  • Oh, and my favourite: We hate West Ham And we hate West Ham And we hate West Ham And we hate West Ham We are the West Ham Haters!
  • If I had the wings of a sparrow And the arse of a big buffalo I'd fly over Wembly tomorrow And s***e on the B******s below. If you want to go to heaven when you die wear a scotland shirt and a scotland tie wear a scotland bonet with f**k the english on it if you want to go to heaven when you die /From the land of Burns...simply could not resist. Yes, I am a bad bee.
  • football philosophers i'm tempted by the george best one: "I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered"