What is it the crowds are singing at soccer (football) games?
South Americans’ chants sound like: Olé! Olé olé olé! Olé! Olé!
British chants sound like: Here we go! Here we go! Here we go! / Here we go! Here we go! Here we go-o! (and then it wnds with a cheer)
What are they singing? Are there any other words?
At Liverpool FC matched ‘here we go’ is substitured with ‘liv-er-pool’
As far as I’m aware there are no other words that the crowds themselves sing.
Certain teams have songs with more substance. For instance Liverpool crowds sometimes sing ‘ferry cross the mersey’ or ‘you’ll never walk alone’ It’s quite a nice sound when sung by 40 thousand men.
Previous thread on football chants (hint: searching for ‘soccer’ is counterproductive 
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Our variation on ‘here we go’ is “Tractor boys”. But our best recent variation-on-a-theme is “There’s only one F in Shefki, one F in Shefki,…”
When I was in Finland, the attractive blonde girls taught us to chant, “SU-O-MI! clap clap clap”
There’s always the classic Sunderland chant “The Referee’s a fcker/The Referee’s a fcker”, ok so it’s not Sunderland specific but they seem to do it more than most.
“Gooooooooooooooeeeee - ollllllllllllllllll. Gooooooooooooooeeee - olllllllllllllll.”
Hard to type, really, but a non-exasperated shouting of a streched out “goal” is what I usually (pretend?) to hear at futbol matches.
Oh, and when I was a kid there was this team, the best rec team in our league, who had really happy parents. Whenever they would score, which was always, they would spell out “bears” a couple of times. We, being the worst team, had a match one time that consisted of them basically spelling fully or partially the word “bear,” until they started over again, for the entire game. If we weren’t 1-14 for the past couple of seasons it would of been humiliating, but defeat was our mistress so we took it in stride. In fact, knowing us, we probably chanted back. I doubt it’s hardly an international thing, unfortunatly.
There are some generic ones like Here we go , but most clubs have their own specific ones. Here’s the best known ones for the premiership (or at least the ones I associate with them):
1 Chelsea - One man went to mow
2 Man Utd - Glory Glory Man Utd (which the buggers nicked)
3 Arsenal - they never ever sing, their ground is known as the Highbury Library, but If i had to pick one it would be “Viera wo-oh-oh-oh. He comes from Sengal, and plays for Arsenal”
4 Everton - Not sure about these.
5 Liverpool - you’ll never work again, sorry. you’ll never walk alone
6 Bolton - Dunno
7 Charlton - Nothing springs to mind
8 Tottenham - glory glory, or My old man said be an arsenal fan (the rest isn’t printable in this forum)
9 Middlesbrough - Dunno
10 Newcastle - Blaydon Races
11 Aston Villa - Again nothing jumps to mind
12 Man City - Blue moon
13 Birmingham - Shit on the Villa
14 Blackburn - something about kestrel strangling probably
15 Portsmouth - Pompey Chimes
16 Fulham - “Only one F in Fulham”
17 Southampton - when the saints go marching in
18 Crystal Palace - Glad all over?
19 West Brom - Boing boing
20 Norwich - Dunno - and deliah didn’t seem impressed
Any additions?
Don’t forget the general pleasantries heaped on the ref.
“Are you f*cking blind, Referee?” being the one that most easily comes to mind.
Also, there are the “you’re going home in a f*cking ambulance” type chants.
Football, sport of gentlemen!
“Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill, Martin O’Neill.”
Or something like that.
Actually, I’m interested in other teams’ variations on the "There’s only one … " song. The version most commonly sang at Celtic Park these days goes:
“There’s only one Johnny Hartson
There’s only one Johnny Hartson
He’s got no hair, but we don’t care
Walking in a Hartson wonderland.”
There’s also a Neil Lennon variation but I don’t approve of it so I won’t post it here.
How do other clubs do this one?
“Wings of a Sparrow” is the only one that I can think of that’s specifically-inbred. We’re too busy with “Stick your saucepans up your arse” to notice…
Last time Sunderland played at Portman Road, they were busy with “Robson is a Maccam” - they’d decked out Sir Bob’s statue in red & white prior to the match. Funny bastards they may be, but they’re still bastards.
We used to have one about John Wark, which obviously provided some puns, but I can’t remember it at all.
Bolton’s is Amarillo, IIRC (as is Falkirk’s, apparently). That’s why Peter Kay “covered” it for Comic Relief.
I heard that Middlesborough (I think) used to chant “there’s only one job in Middlesborough” after they signed Job, the player.
In Mexico City, they chant, “Osama, Osama!”
wow, I can’t believe fans make fun of the Munich air disaster at Man U games.
Can I assume therefore that the Hillsborough tragedy is similarly fair game?.. are there any chants about that that anyone is aware of?
Give it time…
There’s been some, from the Millwall crowd (surprise surprise), which were enough to trigger violence with Liverpool fans. A few decades later, there’ll no doubt be more Hillsborough chants.
Horse before the cart there. Bolton’s is now Amarillo, because of Peter Kay using it in Phoenix Nights, or so i’ve always been led to believe.
To the tune of “One Man Went To Mow”:
“One man went to war
Went to war with Boro
One man and his baseball bat
Went to war with Boro”
Sung by Cambridge Utd fans about Peterborough Utd.
How could you forget Andy Goram in this context?
Andy Goram was diagnosed with schizophrenia, hence:
“there’s only two Andy Gorams” etc.
Attending a Manchester United-Liverpool game (effect microphones are designed to filter this stuff out, so you’re not likely to pick it up on the television unless you know what to listen for), you’ll be treated to “Who’s that lying on the runway?
Who’s that dying in the snow?” from the Liverpool fans, and “Are you sure you fit in there?” and “Ninety-six reasons to be cheerful” from the United fans.