We don't hate our nickname, it's simply not part of our official playing name & that is how it should stay......I am a Hull City fan, not a Hull Tigers as long as we are in the Premiership customer
Think it became popular, not just with us, in the 90s. Can't recall it in the 60s, 70s or 80s. Didn't someone bring a record of this kids song out? Which will be the time football fans picked up on it.
I first heard it being sung on TV Premier League matches by football fans circa 2000. I was at BP from '46 to '66 and it was never sung in that period.
Hang on, you're the one in favour of a new club. You're the ones who should **** off and start a new club with Allam at the helm and you can call it what you want. You're the Milton Keynes of this situation. Us Hull City fans will stay at Hull City, sing the songs we've always sang and not be boored by our own 'fans' for it.
I never heard it the 80s or early to mid 90s. I always thought it was robbed off Man City, who I recall singing it a lot as they fell through the divisions in the late 90s. I recall it being sung in the Kempton as our attendances started to revive – so I’d peg City Till I Die as being late, late 90s/very early 2000s. Though I must admit a lot of the late 90s early 2000s blurs into one for me, the upshot is, that it was definitely sang at Boothferry Park. Where it was originally taken from (by the Man C fans or whoever) I don't know. But it is sung to the theme tune of that sitcom set in a hospital with James Bolam (We’re H.A.P.P.Y.)
For some reason I thought I first heard it (through the "blurry period") by Bradford C , who we came across more often? Though this may be my brain confusing it with the 'city gent' ? fanzine Perhaps we can sing this next time to appease the appeasers? [video=youtube;PXgcEea_2zo]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXgcEea_2zo[/video]
Only When I Laugh - that's it. Couldn't remember its name. You could be right about Bradford C - again I can't be sure. I lived in Manc in the 90s, so perhaps that's influenced my memory.
Although, I reckon (off the top) we didn't play Bratfud for years after we played them in 1995 or 96 (that horrible day they had the South Stand and ultimately went up). My memory would pit the CTID song a bit later than 1996. Ooh, it's all so blurry.
