From Shelbourne fans at Ferrycarrig during the balmy days of the Celtic Tiger:
"You can stick your f****n winebar up your a**e!
Its not like we sing those songs the entire game.. 95% of the songs are in support of the team like
I love the classics...
"All the lads, you should've seen us coming,
The fastest team in the land, the fastest team you'll ever see,
All the lads and lassies, all the homeless b@stards,
Walking down the Milltown Roadddddddd,
To see a row of houses!"
The least cool thing a group of fans can do is sing songs about your bitterest rivals when you're playing another team. When Bohs fans do it, it drives me bananas - except when its the chant above. Love it.
There is room for abusive chants - getting rid of them, you have over santized anti football crowds like the top flight in England (only in rubbish grounds). However, the standard is better than this thread suggests, and I fully endorse fans not posting them up to be robbed or hijacked tbh! If other fans want them, try and work out the words live!
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Doesn't that defeat the purpose of a chant?
I have this mad picture of 600 away fans frowning in concentration over clipboards working out whether ooooh-wye-uh-ugay-ah (in the broad Geordie accent that all chants seem to sound like) refers to their mothers, or their leftback's turning ability being akin to a nervous ass on ice. No. 601 provides Twitter updates so they can all follow the game and No.602 counts heads in the hope a devastatingly witty attendance counter-chant might be penned before half-time...
Hello, hello? What's going on? What's all this shouting, we'll have no trouble here!
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All decent songs are though with the help of mind altering substances. Be it red wne & coke or harder stuff.
The results of this defo shouldn't be committed to print. The most embaressing thing I ever saw around a football ground was lads selling books of 'Man utd terrace songs' outisde Old Trafford. Not the lads themselves, fair play for making a few quid, but who buys that sort of stuff?
Presumably the same people posting songs on a forum that practically every club uses thinking they're being funny
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Was only thinking last week that when I became a regular at game's, around 2001, chants of "I'd rather be a Paki than a Dub" (to the tune of 'she'll be coming 'round the mountain') and 'Number X is a homosexual, he's so gay it's unbelievable' were common. I'm glad they're gone now.
Last edited by Stevo Da Gull; 28/03/2013 at 12:55 AM.
These were Bray fans singing those?
There was this one time, in Flancare, where we all started shouting "the referee's a w****r", it was totally hilarious.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
Surprised no Rovers fans mentioned this terrace favourite!
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