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Football chants/ songs
It occurred to me as I updated my Fantasy Football team to include Man City's new signing Edin Dzeko, that very few recent pop songs have been adopted as songs or chants by football crowds (can I offer 'Dzeko...Dzeko...Dzeko-o-o-o...Dzeko' to the tune of Peter Gabriel's Biko?). I remember when Steam's 'Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye' was released in the 70s and quickly became a multi-adaptable chant for most teams' fans. Any suggestions for newly adapted songs/ chants?
And did anyone hear that fantastically rhythmic chant by Stevenage fans in their recent FA Cup win over Newcastle?
Of course the best football song is Stoke City's 'We'll Be With You' - written by Jackie Trent and a number 34 hit-ette in 1972 - none of that New Order, Fat Les, Anfield Rap shite; this is a proper tune!!!
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If it's proper football tunes you want, you
can't beat 'Marching on Together' as sung by 5,000+ pissed Leeds United fans, the full version though.
And we've had our
Ups and downs (Ups and downs)
MOT!
Only
We're not famous anymore.
I quite liked
Nottingham Forest fans to Portsmouth fans on Sturday: "We are Forest and we pay our bills"
My favorite couplet
A number of years ago I was visiting your fine country, and remember hearing:
My Dad drives a second hand Sierra
Ooh, Patrick Viera!
new
Celtic fans have a chant for Japanese winger Nakamura.
"He eats chow mein and he votes Sinn Fein
He's Nakamura, he's Nakamura.
A Japanese bloke, a Chinese dish and an Irish political party...
Celtic supporters, bless 'em.
Beg To Differ
To my mind amusing banners or songs with a teeny bit of sectarian tribalism are the thin end of a wedge which has at its larger end things like a Facebook page looking for Neil Lennon to be shot.
This might seem a bit of a stretch but it's all about normalising that which is not normal which creates an environment where real bigots aren't challenged as they should be.
Not accepting this is all the more important precisely because Sinn Fein is a political party and seeking to represent itself as a respectable entity.
As a club we generally don't do chants - or banners
But we make the odd exception.
My current favourite - to the chorus of 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You' - goes like this:
Marouane Fellaini, you are the love of my life
Marouane Fellaini, I'd let you shag my wife
Marouane Fellaini, I want curly hair too...
It's a lovely chant that
Was applied to Nicky Bailey when at Charlton too - substitute "ginger" for "curly" in the above. Any 'boro fans know if it's used there?
what about
'Tell Me Ma'?
The club sells (sold?) a sticker with that on it.
I would imagine after playing Chelsea in a fortnight...
...we won't be hearing that one again this season.
At West Ham
This song is known as the Christian Dailly song
Chicory Tip
Would probably be grateful for royalties for every time 'Son of my father' is used by football fans
I believe
the original version was written by none other than Giorgio Moroder.
Although, according to Wikipedia
Moroder was the co-writer
To Ottowan D.I.S.C.O.
D. Z. E. K. O.
D. Z. E. K. O.
He is D David Silva.
Z Zabaleta.
E Edin Dzeko.
K Kolo Toure.
He is Ooooooooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaoooooooooo
D. Z. E. K. O
Love it!!
It's got the makings of a modern classic.
This may be apocryphal
But someone told me Brighton fans used to sing 'Leon Knight', to the tune of Neon Lights by Kraftwerk.
Not sure if that's true
though the did once have a goalkeeper from Holland who was in the Navy. He's now to be found at Crawley; I wonder if they sing this classic too...
Michael Kuipers is a former Dutch marine
A former Dutch marine
A former Dutch marine
Bolton
used to have a Dutch midfielder called Richard Sneekes, which lent itself nicely to:
"When it's spring again, we'll sing again
Sneekes from Amsterdam"
Didn't
Gilles De Bilde get a song tothe tune of Bob The Builder?
Best one I heard...
Some years ago after Liverpool were beat by Burnley in a cup game when Traore (correct spelling?) scored an own goal when the ball got stuck between his feet and he succeeded, after several failed attempts, to put the ball past his Mad Goalie (Dudek?) that the Scousers had at that time.
To the tune of "Blame It On The Boogie", and this is best sung out loud:
Dont blame it on the Finnan
Dont blame it on the Biscan
Dont blame it on the Hamann
Blame it on Traore.
Dont blame it on the Finnan
Dont blame it on the Biscan
Dont blame it on the Hamann
Blame it on Traore
He just cant
He just cant
He just cant control his feet.
Quality!
My personal favourite
originated, I think, with Hibs fans just after Graham Rix was appointed as manager of Hearts.
Rix had just came back into the game after a well documented jail sentence for unlawful sex with an underage girl. Elsewhere Britpop legends The Manic Street Preachers were at number 1 in the hit parade with a song about the Spanish Civil War. The two combined to marvellous effect in the following chant:
"If you tolerate Rix, then your children will be next".
Has there ever been better?
Stoke City's 'We'll Be With You'
(In the Pie Shop) ,to give it it's full title.
Phillipe Albert
everyone knows his name.