Worst Sports Chants

[pete]

By this I mean songs 'n chants so annoying & boring cos they over used.

Any nominations?

I'll start it off...

Swing Low Sweet Chariot - enough said
Fields of Athenry - rugby crowd used to wait a while before lashing into this one but so overused these days.
U S A - they've only got 1 chant
Ole Ole (irish people) -

[Gary]

Originally posted by pete
I'll start it off...

Swing Low Sweet Chariot - enough said
Fields of Athenry - rugby crowd used to wait a while before lashing into this one but so overused these days.

Swing low. Stupid moron idiot rugby song, which every rugby fan sings? Why? because the thick cauliflowered eared wánkers think its great that they can string together more than 3 words at a time without puking!

As for fields of Athenry/Bishopstown/Anfield road. Makes me sick to hear it everywhere, not least the one time i went to a Munster game. The team are 30 odd points ahead when this low, polite, soft chant starts among the faggot 50 y/o rugger buggers.

'That was a greeeeeeeeeeat rendition wasnt it Cormac', "certainly was brian, now lets go to Con and bugger the under 10 team".

Rugby people. Fúcking wánkers the whole lot of em.

And for what its worth, worst chant/song is "xxx til i die"


Oh, and Flower Of Scotland. I was in the Bodhran in town recently and there were a few Scots fellas wearing Kilts in there, so these ruggers were pestering to sing Flower. They politely said fack off, so a few of the ruggers, deciding they were hilariuos, original, and coherent tried to sing it. It was the stuff nightmares are made of!

[Gary]

Mad goal though!

[Beavis]

Originally posted by pete
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U S A - they've only got 1 chant

Swiss Fans:

'HOPP SCHWIIZ,HOPP SHWIZZ,HOPP SHWIZZ.................'

and

'NA NA,NA NA,NA NA NA NA NA NA NA,NA NA NA NA,NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA HOPP SCHWIZZ'(to the tune of o' my darling clementine)

Trust me,this gets annoying after 3 hours non-stop post match.
Poor besteds have no history(to sing of at least) and no-one to hate,they may aswell sing 'We are neutral la la la la la la la ........'

[A face]

Originally posted by Beavis
Poor besteds have no history(to sing of at least) and no-one to hate,

Dont think they like all the Swiss jews that made it through the war and came back looking for their money. That is a real spanner in the Swiss banks' works. That is still going on.

they may aswell sing 'We are neutral la la la la la la la ........'

Yeah .... but they aint as bad as the Belgians though. They are so boring, it defies belief.

[Shed End John]

Originally posted by Gary
Rugby people. Fúcking wánkers the whole lot of em.

Oh, and Flower Of Scotland. I was in the Bodhran in town recently and there were a few Scots fellas wearing Kilts in there, so these ruggers were pestering to sing Flower. They politely said fack off, so a few of the ruggers, deciding they were hilariuos, original, and coherent tried to sing it. It was the stuff nightmares are made of!

Really mature attitude Gary, calling people something like that just because they happen to have broader sporting horizons than soccer and soccer only.
As for your incomprehensible attack on Flower Of Scotland.......it just so happens to be the Scottish national anthem!! Something like that could cause serious offence, just as a direct attack on your so-called Irishness would doubtless cause you serious offence. Grow up!!

[Macy]

Flower of Scotland is a great song, and a fookin brilliant anthem - I mean it's all about fighting for the rights of the Scottish people and beating the English....

Fields of Athenry is way over used, and it was far better back in the day when Molly Malone was the Lansdowne rugger chant....

Yet to meet anyone who likes Irelands Call, and most of the rugger bugger's I've stood beside hate it. Hard to argue with the sentiment of an all Ireland song for an all Ireland team (and a non-sectarian one at that), but please.....

[Shed End John]

Originally posted by Conor74
Do the rugby fans sing along to "Ireland's Call", because that's absolutely dire altogether.

Never have and never will as long as I live. As Macy put it, an All-Ireland anthem IS a laudable sentiment, but, a much better effort could have been made. I mean a 2nd rate drinking song? Give me a break!

[Dodge]

Flower of Scotland is great, everything else mentioned is terrible.

Worst BY A MILE is Olé Olé

[Macy]

Originally posted by Conor74
I think the third verse of God Save the Queen takes the opposite tack and it's all about the English crushing the Scots in battle.

Regardless of the sentiment, what an absolute dirge of a tune - not uplifting at all......

btw My most hated chant - You'll Never Walk Alone.... regardless of whether it's Liverpool, Celtic, Pat's, Part Time Town Numpties at the league cup final, absolute sh!te....

[tiktok]

when EL supporters start chanting
'You Wot, You Wot, YouWotYouWotYouWot'......
sounding like extras on a merchant ivory film....

and 'OLe Ole...'

[Gary]

Originally posted by Shed End John
Really mature attitude Gary, calling people something like that just because they happen to have broader sporting horizons than soccer and soccer only.
As for your incomprehensible attack on Flower Of Scotland.......it just so happens to be the Scottish national anthem!! Something like that could cause serious offence, just as a direct attack on your so-called Irishness would doubtless cause you serious offence. Grow up!!

Wanna take this outside?

if u bothered actually reading what i said u muppet u would see that what i was saying was about drunken rugby muppets who think they can sing this song. As an anthem its great, but as a chant, its pitiful. Now go away

[TheRealRovers]

Worst Chants
Olé Olé Olé
(Most chants at Irish games are always very boring)
Hello, Hello, We are the finn Harps.....
Hello, Hello, We are the Billy Boys.......
Rule Britannia
And any song to the tune of country roads

[Beavis]

Originally posted by TheRealRovers
Most chants at Irish games are always very boring

What would you suggest we sing?

It's hardly the people that sing that make it boring,it's the @rseholes who turn up and sit in silence.

[Junior]

Originally posted by Conor74
Had forgotten this particular tune. It is absolutely rubbish alright. The words are pretty nonsensical in a football sense, the tune is slow and depressing, and all it does is give a chance for 30,000 scousers with moustaches to hold a scarf up for 5 minutes.

while i'd agree the song is not one that i'd write home about, the sight of 60k at Celtic Park or 40k at Anfield raising scarves etc... to it, can be a pretty awesome sight, after all, its all about creating atmosphere and this song does it at these two stadiums plus others Im sure.

[tiktok]

Originally posted by Conor74
....all it does is give a chance for 30,000 scousers with moustaches to hold a scarf up for 5 minutes...

that's a bit unfair, not all scouse women have moustaches!!!

[TheRealRovers]

Originally posted by Beavis
What would you suggest we sing?

Come into the Shed the next time your in The Showgrounds and you'll hear some good ones

[NigeSausagepump]

The worst chant has to be the preserve of the Clare Gaelic teams.

Not only did they pioneer the so-called Clare shout ("Woooooooooo-hooooooooooo") but they unfortunately try to drag a one syllable team name out over two syllables resulting in "Clay-yir, Clay-yir".

Pure genius.

[shedite]

My personal favourite song at a game is the Hibs anthem "Sunshine on Leith". Went to a few of the games this year and it's written by locals (The Proclamers) and it's all about the club too.

As for chants I hate, GAA ones seem to be particularly bad. Tipperary just have one. The lyrics are "tipperary" repeated over and over. Deano shouted every time he scores gets annoying too.

Hate these new City ones that get too complicated too "ie Dolanio and Kilkoyne". Very smart but unless you're reading it from a hymn sheet, it's impossible to hear the words. Players and away fans haven't a clue what's been said.

What happened to the simple days of "Skippy" and "Johnny C "and "the Ollie song"

[SÓC]

Originally posted by shedite

Hate these new City ones that get too complicated too "ie Dolanio and Kilkoyne". Very smart but unless you're reading it from a hymn sheet, it's impossible to hear the words. Players and away fans haven't a clue what's been said.

What happened to the simple days of "Skippy" and "Johnny C "and "the Ollie song"

Not sure about that. At the Bolton Cork Soccer XI match when the Shed started singing the Georgie song before the game, he made a point of turning around and clapping the Shed for it, a kinda thank you.

The Johnny C C C song was a good one though.

I think the Bohs Give me a B...O...H...S.. one is fairly bad.