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Singing "We hate Nottingham Forest etc, a staple for all football supporters bar Forest in the 70's & 80's it seems to have died out at some stage, good to hear it being sung again
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This wasnt a scousers song as you so eloquently put it, no one knows who actually started it but it was sung by every club bar Forest back in the day.
I agree, Nick. In the 60s and 70s especially it was, along with You'll Never Walk Alone, the most popular song for fans of nearly all clubs, including Saints. It wasn't that Nottingham Forest were particularly unpopular in the '60s, but just a case of their name having the right number of syllables to fit the song. Forest did have their own version of it. They used the name of another team. I think it was West Bromwich Albion.
One of the high points at the Dell was when the whole ground held their scarves aloft and sang You'll Never Walk Alone at the Mick Channnon Testimonial. Of course we also sang it, along with the Nottingham Forest song, when we were at Wembley in the 70s.
Nowadays though, one of the most popular songs at all clubs, except Pompey, seems to be OWTS. I've heard Liverpool fans singing it and It's even sung at Serie A games. Italian fans also still sing Yellow Submarine, which I've never found particularly inspiring, even when we sang, "We all live at the back of Milton Road."
Most of the football songs sung today started on Merseyside: a tradition which goes back to the 1960s.
This wasnt a scousers song as you so eloquently put it, no one knows who actually started it but it was sung by every club bar Forest back in the day.
A scouse involving song:
Take a bow-legged chicken from the Liverpool Kop, And he walks with a wiggle and walks with a hop, With a hand grenade and a walking stick, We are the Milton Boot Boys
This wasnt a scousers song as you so eloquently put it, no one knows who actually started it but it was sung by every club bar Forest back in the day.
You may have misread this. I don't think Pat was calling that song a 'scousers song' but rather the new 'Allez Allez Allez' sh1t that has unfortunately emerged.
You may have misread this. I don't think Pat was calling that song a 'scousers song' but rather the new 'Allez Allez Allez' sh1t that has unfortunately emerged.
Take a bow-legged chicken from the Liverpool Kop, And he walks with a wiggle and walks with a hop, With a hand grenade and a walking stick, We are the Milton Boot Boys
Matt Busby said to Berti Mee, Have you heard of the north bank highbury?
Bert said no, i don't think so, But i've heard of the Milton Aggro...
Hi Pat. Many clubs have their own version of this song as well . Does it really matter which fans started it ? We moan when we don’t have any songs and we complain when we get a new one which thousands of other fans also sing for their respective clubs. I don’t see a problem with it tbh.
Hi Pat. Many clubs have their own version of this song as well . Does it really matter which fans started it ? We moan when we don’t have any songs and we complain when we get a new one which thousands of other fans also sing for their respective clubs. I don’t see a problem with it tbh.
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my main problem is that it's factually incorrect, the chapel wasn't added to st mary's church until 1886, a year after Southampton football club was formed.
So therefor it was started in a boys club associated with the church and not the chapel, making the entire song TECHNICALLY WRONG, and as we all know veracity is the most important part of football songs.
Hi Pat. Many clubs have their own version of this song as well . Does it really matter which fans started it ? We moan when we don’t have any songs and we complain when we get a new one which thousands of other fans also sing for their respective clubs. I don’t see a problem with it tbh.
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I suspect that, as with one or two others on this esteemed forum, I am becoming more curmudgeonly in my old age.
Besides, FranniesTache has just rendered the chant illegal on the grounds of false statements.
I suspect that, as with one or two others on this esteemed forum, I am becoming more curmudgeonly in my old age.
Besides, FranniesTache has just rendered the chant illegal on the grounds of false statements.
I actually have a working theory we're partly responsible for it sadly, and as much as i hate the use of the scouse song it definitely borrows from us moaning on social media people didn't reference the clubs history enough.
I did have a chuckle though when we played Spurs and our fans sang "we sing our songs", then instantly followed it up by singing Allez Allez.
Self awareness is not a strong point in THE NORTHAM WAILING WALL
my main problem is that it's factually incorrect, the chapel wasn't added to st mary's church until 1886, a year after Southampton football club was formed.
So therefor it was started in a boys club associated with the church and not the chapel, making the entire song TECHNICALLY WRONG, and as we all know veracity is the most important part of football songs.
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It started in a boys club in 1886 And most of the time we play like utter dicks Channon, MLT blah blah blah Allez allez allez
Hi Pat. Many clubs have their own version of this song as well . Does it really matter which fans started it ? We moan when we don’t have any songs and we complain when we get a new one which thousands of other fans also sing for their respective clubs. I don’t see a problem with it tbh.
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My issue with our "one song" is that every other team seem to have nicked it, particularly Spurs, but now it's turning up everywhere!
My issue with our "one song" is that every other team seem to have nicked it, particularly Spurs, but now it's turning up everywhere!
Spurs were the last club to start any singing section in their crowd, in the late '60s. Liverpool were the first. They started singing You'll Never Walk Alone after Gerry & the Pacemakers had a hit with it in 1963. Then other teams' fans followed.
At our first top flight game at White Hart Lane in 1966, we took 10,000 fans and completely filled their Park Lane End. Although we lost 5-3, we sang loudly throughout, including many renditions of OWTS. There wasn't a peep from the Spurs' fans, not even one song. The view at the time was that they were a gentlemen's club and wouldn't lower themselves by singing.
The following year, we only took about 5,000 up there, again in the Park Lane End. But, once again, we were the only ones singing, including OWTS. We lost 6-1 and there was a loud rendition of 'We're only warming up" when we scored our only goal at the end of the game.
The following year, I seem to recall is when they had their first small group singers. Even then, they only sang Glory, Glory Allelujah and not OWTS.
I've always thought that as they've stolen our song, we should go tit for tat and steal theirs. Glory, Glory Hallelujah aka The Battle Hymn of the Republic is a rousing song after all. I'm sure they would complain bitterly, without seeing the irony.
You may have misread this. I don't think Pat was calling that song a 'scousers song' but rather the new 'Allez Allez Allez' sh1t that has unfortunately emerged.
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Still don't get the hate, a small team in Italy started in, Napoli copied it, then clubs here (Liverpool being one) copied it.
No chant is truly original - well none I've heard recently.
But have a smile and watch this, made me chuckle;
From about 4:38 onwards, would've worked amazingly with the Northam and Itchen North :)
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