# Song sung by fans near end of English football matches **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [November 15, 2019, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489 "2019-11-15T14:03:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/21 "2019-11-15T18:26:01Z")
Has Arsenal got their own song/chant? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/22 "2019-11-15T18:31:19Z")
> [@oligopoly](#): > > Football team fans have an array of songs - many are for their own team/history/players but there are many other songs - often crude but usually humorous that get chanted too. In answer to your question, the one that springs to mind is: > > Can we play you > Can we play you > Can we play you every week? > Can we play you every week? > > I forget the name of the melody - but you’ll know it when you hear it Bread of Heaven. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/23 "2019-11-15T18:36:53Z")
In Scotland, if you see fans of a losing team leaving early you can sing ‘Cheerio, cheerio, cheerio…’ to the tune of (I had to look it up) ‘The Stars and Stripes Forever’. I don’t know if this is sung in England though. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/24 "2019-11-15T18:47:27Z")
Ode to this thread: Ca-fé Society, you’re going to Ca-fé Society! Café So-ciety, you’re going to Café Sociiiiiety. (To the aforementioned Guantanamera tune.) Edit: ‘You’re getting sent to the Games Room’, to the same tune, may be more likely. ---
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And then there’s Everton. [Enjoy the weird](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXyv0edPfQg). (That’s actually the theme tune to a 1960’s cop show called Z-Cars). j ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stafford_cripps/32/7167_2.png) [@The\_Stafford\_Cripps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stafford_Cripps)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/26 "2019-11-15T18:59:55Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Has Arsenal got their own song/chant? ‘Have’, Cardigan, ‘have’. For a while Arsenal fans sang ‘One nil to the Arsenal’ to the Go West tune, but I think that might have stopped with the more swashbuckling Wenger era. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/27 "2019-11-15T22:57:53Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > There is of course the classic Newcastle United song aimed at their bitter rivals in Sunderland. In fairness they were right, he has got a [monkeys heed](https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+reid&rlz=1CASHAN_enGB827&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD5_fY6OzlAhUxVBUIHfB5BI8Q_AUIEygC&biw=1366&bih=665) To the tune of _Yellow Submarine_, and one of the genre’s finest. There’s loads of variants of this, to the tune of _Daydream Believer_ > [@](#): > > Cheer up \, > Oh what can it mean, > To a \, > And a shite football team ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/28 "2019-11-15T23:22:41Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Has Arsenal got their own song/chant? They’ve had some good player ones, including: - “Ian Wright Wright Wright”, set to “[Feeling Hot Hot Hot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbc_LxfhSoY&feature=youtu.be&t=24)” - “We’ve got Cesc Fabregas”, set to “[La donna è mobile](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCFEk6Y8TmM)” from _Rigoletto_ - “Naaa…na-na-nanana-naaa…Nanana-na…Nanana-na…Giroud!” (for striker Olivier Giroud), set to “[Hey Jude](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_MjCqQoLLA&feature=youtu.be&t=336)” The “Hey Jude” coda tune has been used in football songs for many years, but for Giroud, it’s perfect. ---
**Author:** ![Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/marvin_the_martian/32/2898_2.png) [@Marvin\_the\_Martian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvin_the_Martian)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/29 "2019-11-15T23:32:55Z")
> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > Well you learn something new every day! It will always be a 'rama song for me of course, such is the power of teenage memory. I can almost see Joanne Malherbe bouncing her way across the floor towards me…happy days. You probably think [“Venus”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPEhQugz-Ew) is a Bananarama original too… ---
**Author:** ![Celyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9dc877/32.png) [@Celyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Celyn)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/30 "2019-11-15T23:39:33Z")
It is probably the hymn “Cwm Rhondda”, in English better known as "Guide me, O thou great Redeemer, Pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but thou art mighty; Hold me with thy powerful hand: Bread of heaven, bread of heaven Feed me till I want no more. Feed me till I want no more. … and so on ---
**Author:** ![Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b487fb/32.png) [@Walken\_After\_Midnight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walken_After_Midnight)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/31 "2019-11-15T23:46:13Z")
A brilliant player song from the past, sung by Manchester United fans, was “Neville Neville”. Gary Neville and Phil Neville were two brothers playing for Manchester United as defenders, and their father was called Neville Neville - that really was his name. The song was sung to the tune of “[Rebel Rebel](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U16Xg_rQZkA&feature=youtu.be&t=69)”, with these lyrics: > [@](#): > > Neville Neville, Your future’s immense, > Neville Neville, You play in defence, > Neville Neville, Like Jacko you’re bad, > Neville Neville, Is the name of your dad ---
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> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#): > > There is of course the classic Newcastle United song aimed at their bitter rivals in Sunderland. In fairness they were right, he has got a [monkeys heed](https://www.google.com/search?q=peter+reid&rlz=1CASHAN_enGB827&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiD5_fY6OzlAhUxVBUIHfB5BI8Q_AUIEygC&biw=1366&bih=665) But I thought Hartlepool was the place that specialised in monkeys. 😕 ---
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Sometimes they sing the current score to the tune of _Amazing Grace_. Three-nil, three-he-he-nil, three-nil, three-nil, Three-nil, three-he-he-nil, THREE-NIIIIILLLL, etc. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/34 "2019-11-16T01:36:41Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Wow, these are positively illuminating responses. This Yank is learning a lot about Brits. Those football chants surely originated in Britain, but are in no way exclusive. There are chants to the tunes of popular songs all over the world in football. Here’s a German classic, denigrating Bayern München, the most reviled club in Germany except for, well, Bayern fans, sung to the tune of “Yellow Submarine”: _Zieht den Bayern die Lederhosen aus Lederhosen aus Lederhosen aus_ meaning “Drag drown the Bayern’s lederhosen!” another classic is this, sung to the tune of “It’s A Heartache” by Bonnie Tyler: _Ihr seid Schalker, asoziale Schalker Ihr schlaft unter Brücken Oder in der Bahnhofsmission_ You are Schalker Antisocial Schalker You sleep under bridges Or at the railway mission “Schalker” being one generic example of fans of one club, Schalke 04, but replace “Schalker” with “Kölner” or “Bayern” and it works just the same. These examples only show that I’m old. Football fans are much more creative and come up with new chants every season. ---
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> [@SanVito](#): > > I also like the ing fans sing to the opposing fans, particularly fans known for sining who go quiet when they’re losing. Again to the tune of Guantamarera > > “You only sing when you’re winning > Sing when you’re winning > You only sing when you’re winning” For those playing across the pond: the coal mining industry in Britain collapsed in the eighties causing ongoing trouble in mining communities. Both Barnsley and Sheffield are in Yorkshire which used to have many coal mines but the economy of Barnsley relied more on coal (Sheffield was and still is steel). I don’t actually do football so I can’t remember which of the two rival Sheffield clubs this was. So a mate told me that when his Sheffield club played Barnsley they made the opposing supporters apoplectic with the chant “You only sing when you’re mining…” A quick google tells me that this is better known as a chant against Cardiff. Also I can’t believe no one has mentioned the anti Liverpool song “You’ll never walk again” Then there’s The Pet Shop Boys “Go West” adopted by many teams bastardised by opposing fans to feature notorious serial killer Fred West "Fred West he don’t give a f\*ck… Fred West he just cuts them up… Fred West where did they go… Fred West under the patio…" ---
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For odd: AFC AJAX Amsterdam used to have a song: “een vakkie vol met Joden”. ( “a section full of Jews”) as self-identifier. Also a chant which would translate as “Jews, Jews, Jews - we will be the champions”. Typically, the overwhelmingly large majority of those singing it would not, traditionally, be regarded as Jewish. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2019, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489/37 "2019-11-16T05:19:47Z")
It’s a tossup whether this is better suited to Cafe Society or The Game Room, but I’m going to send it to The Game Room. Colibri General Questions Moderator ---
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For an odd football song, there’s Chelsea FC’s celery song: Celery, Celery, If she don’t cum, I’ll tickle her bum, With a stalk of celery… > **['Celery' - Chelsea FanChants](https://www.fanchants.com/football-songs/chelsea-chants/celery/)** > > She loves that celery. Ed: Better recording added “She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain” is a popular tune for improvised songs. My favourite version was an anti-Chelsea one: “If it wasn’t for the Russian you’d be Leeds” (The Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich had just bought the struggling Chelsea FC, while Chelsea’s chairman had ties to Leeds FC who had just been relegated. As for end-of match songs, there’s “You’re not singing, You’re not singing, You’re not singing anymore!” aimed by the winning side supporters at the rival supporters. ---
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> [@Wrenching\_Spanners](#): > > As for end-of match songs, there’s > “You’re not singing, > You’re not singing, > You’re not singing anymore!” > aimed by the winning side supporters at the rival supporters. That’s more for the five minutes after a goal which suddenly shuts the opposition fans up; it’s usually because their team is now behind but it could also be an equaliser. You don’t hear it at the end of a game unless there’s a very late goal. ---
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My favourite manages to be both self-deprecating, and insulting to the opposition. Sung to the chorus of Sloop John B We lose every week We lose every wee-ee-eek You’re nothing special We lose every week [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-sung-by-fans-near-end-of-english-football-matches/843489.md?page=3)