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Controversial view: Most football chants are dull and unoriginal

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  1. Saintmagic

    Saintmagic Well-Known Member

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    Because loads of teams sing it I suppose. Just substitute Saints with whatever is relevant to their team.
     
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  2. crusti

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    First Page of Ceefax,
    We're on the first page Ceefax

    Should be on Radio 3 as it is a Classic
     
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    Controversial perhaps but I think 'You'll never walk alone' is the best 'football' song....and even Liverpool have to share that with Celtic.
     
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  4. SaintLapras

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    There was one chant I heard at Shrewsbury away last season which I can't remember exactly how it goes, but it had a very particular clapping pattern. I couldn't make out the lyrics as the main singers of the chant were on the other side of the stand but it was something about "Follow you" and then five quick claps then something that sounded like "Follow me" followed by five quick claps, then something else equally as short followed by five claps, then something else then five claps... Then there would be like a constant rhythmic clapping while chanting something (it might have just been a 'ooohhhh' or something, I honestly can't remember) . It was quite good, lasted a while and I'd never heard any chant like that before or since.
     
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  5. TheSecondStain

    TheSecondStain Needs an early night

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    Saints aren't the only ones who can claim Oh When The Saints Go Marching In as the club song. St Johnstone and St Mirren could both claim it too. And, in the USA, so could New Orleans Saints. The song is a traditional gospel song after all. You'll Never Walk Alone is a song from Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical carousel - so any football crowd could sing that too. Liverpool FC have no extra claim to it of any kind. It was just re-popularised by Gerry and the Pacemakers, from Liverpool. Nothing else. Perhaps we shouldn't be so respectful, seeing as nobody else is.

    I guess Southampton FC are just most closely associated with Oh When The Saints Go Marching In. But the times, they are a-changing.
     
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  6. Templar TDM

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    While Southampton are my football association with Oh When the Saints Go Marching In, I suspect there's people out there who'd associate it more strongly with Spurs - primarily because they're more likely to watch games involving top 7 sides than ones involving Southampton!

    Also depends on your geographical area - I live in St Helens. I've known Oh When the Saints Go Marching In since I was a kid, it's often sung around town, because it's also the song for our rugby league team (who are predominantly referred to as Saints, even by other teams, and pretty much never referred to as St Helens). Many people will associate things with where they've heard it first.

    (As a matter of fact, it was a confusion of a headline about 'Saints' in a newspaper that originally made me interested in looking at Southampton, where I'd previously had little interest in football - I'd assumed, from the headline, it would be talking about the rugby team!).
     
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  7. Libby

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    Have to disagree there, think it's hugely overrated and not even Liverpool's best song for me :)

    One of my favourite non Saints ones is probably a tad controversial too...

     
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  8. Saints_Alive

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    We nicked "when I was just a little boy" from them, a Leeds fan that we drank with used to sing it every weekend in the pubs around the city centre back in the 80s but his version had "shoot the Chelsea scum".
     
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  9. Libby

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    That's quite interesting, cheers for that <cheers>
     
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    Don't tell me you like that Brown Girl in the Ring one...:emoticon-0110-tongu


    "Fields of Anfield Road" is a good one I think.
     
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  11. Libby

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    Fields of Anfield Road is the one I was thinking of mate yeah <ok>
     
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  12. ChilcoSaint

    ChilcoSaint What a disgrace
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    Again, not original. Based on the Irish folk song “Fields of Athenry” by Pete St. John, which is used by lots of Irish sports fans.
     
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  13. Libby

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    Yeah i knew that anyway was just saying prefer it to YNWA. After posting I went looking for the Irish one as well:




    Was some great renditions of that during Euro 2016 iirc.
     
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  14. fatletiss

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    I remember that. Was it:

    <applause>
    <applause><applause>
    <applause><applause><applause><applause><applause>
    Follow me, follow me
    <applause>
    <applause><applause>
    <applause><applause><applause><applause><applause>
    Follow me
    Ooooooooh Oooooooooh”

    ??
     
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  15. Saints_Alive

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    Speaking of current songs that were sung by other fans back in the 80s, Sunderland's "Got a Dream" was sung by the lads from the Painted Wagon pub (Saints main crew) back then on away days. Can remember walking along the road singing it myself with them on many occasions...


     
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  16. fatletiss

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    Mate. My wife’s from Wigan. She refers to you lot as Woolly backs and that is how it will stay!!

    :)
     
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  17. It's Only A Game

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    Who said football chants are dull? That's a cracker.
     
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    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Why do you think that’s controversial? Always associated with them and only them.
     
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  19. Libby

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    Controversial that I like it? Everyone seems to hate Leeds so I'm assuming that extends to the song for a lot of people.
     
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  20. fatletiss

    fatletiss Well-Known Member

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    Ah ok.

    No problem for me. I don’t like Leeds, but respect a good singing team, hence my comments on united away fans and Bestie’s song. Quality songs, great noise, but twats. <laugh>
     
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