Football chants and mexican waves

[wolf63]

I have never been to a football match and the only time that I have been at Murrayfield (Edinburgh) was to watch the Eagles in concert. But I have seen bits of matches on the TV.

My question(s)

Mexican wave[i

How do they manage to choreograph it so that everyone is doing more or less the same thing? It always looks well co-ordinated.

[i]Football Chants]

How are the words of a new chant cascaded? If I created a chant that was amusing and I decided to go and chant it at a match nobody would hear me. Would I have to teach the chant to a group of fans so that they could sing loud enough so the rest of the fans could hear and repeat the chant?

Thank you

[wolf63]

Those ******** italics!

[boxtops]

They don't choreograph - someone starts and everyone else in the audience just does it. Done it myself at Murrayfield, we had a cracking one at the Dover Tattoo recently, it went round five times!

[rowanwitch]

Chants are led by recognised leaders and someone attempting to start a new one would be ignored.


Best ones I heard

He shoots he scores he'll eat your labradors Ji Sung Park
Ji sung park


and When the ball hits your head and youre back in Row Z thats Zamora

[andrew1707]

Wolf,
Why not write a song and get along to see St Johnstone at the start of the new season and try singing it...see how you get on.

Also try standing up now and then shouting "Mexican wave!".

For the song I would recommend something along the lines of:

We hate Dundee and we hate Dundee,
We hate Dundee and we hate Dundee,
We hate Dundee and we hate Dundee,
we are the Dundee Haters!
(This is a real song, I didn't write it)

[rowanwitch]

There used to be a young lady Leeds supporter of somewhat lax morals, apparently when leeds played nottingham forest there was shout of who's maid Marian to which the response was we all have....

[Davethedog]

Most football chants at club level originate from away supporters, they are on coaches, trains or all in one pub. Whoever it is sings it to his mates who sing it and the others take it up, ten they go "home" away they go.

[wolf63]

I'm grateful for all the explanations. I had in possession a newspaper article which listed some really good chants. They weren't all PC but they were funny.

Andrew - Robbie was a Dundonian. Remember Robbie - the psychopath with big teeth.

[squarebear]

One I liked went to the tune of the Addams family.

"Your sister is your mother,
Your uncle is your brother,
You all F*** one another,
The Norwich family!"

[rowanwitch]

We aint andy pandy and we aint bill and ben
We ain't Ken dodd or the diddy men
we aint little sarah in her ringlets and curls we are the chelsea boot girls

[Duncer]

I've seen spontaneous, and very funny, chants work in the Irish League, but crowds are much smaller and things are picked up more easily than at somewhere like Anfield or Ibrox.

One of the most coruscating one-liners I have ever heard at football came from an elderly gentleman at a Linfield home game. Paul Dalglish, son of the legendary Kenny, was plying his trade with Linfield at the time, and proving beyond all reasonable doubt that footballing ability is not passed on genetically, unless Kelly has hidden talents. As they trooped of the pitch to almost silence a voice was clearly heard to ask, "Hey Dalglish, were you adopted".

[wolf63]

Reading through the post it seems that there are some very good chants out there in football land. I had a newspaper clip listing many of them and some were very very good - maybe I will work out what I did with the scan that I took of it.

[BigBoab]

Murrayfield is a rugby ground, the home of Scottish international rugby.