Has Arsenal got their own song/chant?
Bread of Heaven.
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.
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.
And then there’s Everton. Enjoy the weird.
(That’s actually the theme tune to a 1960’s cop show called Z-Cars).
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‘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.
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
They’ve had some good player ones, including:
- “Ian Wright Wright Wright”, set to “Feeling Hot Hot Hot”
- “We’ve got Cesc Fabregas”, set to “La donna è mobile” from Rigoletto
- “Naaa…na-na-nanana-naaa…Nanana-na…Nanana-na…Giroud!” (for striker Olivier Giroud), set to “Hey Jude”
The “Hey Jude” coda tune has been used in football songs for many years, but for Giroud, it’s perfect.
You probably think “Venus” is a Bananarama original too…
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
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”, with these lyrics:
But I thought Hartlepool was the place that specialised in monkeys. 
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.
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.
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…"
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.
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
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…
“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.
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.
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