I'd say 01482 is a bit of fun too, something the southerners won't understand and something unique we made up. I like it. The other ones you and TWF have mentioned are crap though. That one is the wrst of them all. Every single match you see at the moment has this song going both ways. Basically everywhere is a **** hole. The sarcastic 'handball' thing used to be funny too but it's been done to death now and it's used whenever a set of fans shout handball just once. The first time I heard it was WBA away a few years ago and they had actually appealed for handball an awful lot, so it made sense at the time but now it seems to be rolled out through desperation if nothing else. The worst thing about our chants though is the lack of players songs, I remember when only one or two first team players didn't have their own song. Now only one or two do have one. After Chester makes one of his trademark awesome tackles why are we not shouting his name? Even the ones that do - Fryatt and Koren in particular - why don't we sing them more often? Why isn't every single Koren touch followed by an exaggeratedly excited chorus of "City's number 10" and someone like Stewart in particular should have the 'Da da da-da' song every time he does anything like Fraizer Cambell used to have, it'd at least help his confidence.
Ahem. ....a few games ago, someone near me in E2 actually tried starting it (see sig if you're a bit confused). When 'Boro sang it, I tried to start: 'We're just too posh for you, we're just too posh for you....' but not enough people joined in. ...or if you want a joke response, we could do: "So's your mam's mouth, so's your mam's mooooouth, she's into scat fetish, so so's your mam's mouth!" #classy
I'm sure I remember chanting that at BP in the late 80's?? A chant that annoys me is the dyslexic "Give us a C-I-T-YYYYYYYYY. What have you got? The tigers" NO YOU HAVEN'T, you've got City.
Just to go back to the original point, it's actually beginning to grate on me how anyone cannot see it's us taking the piss out of ourselves.. there's actually a video of us doing at The Emirates and the comments absolutely rip into us.. along the lines of 'everything that is wrong with modern day football' and 'soccer am style mugs' etc etc.. the fact the chant originates from when we were one of the worst professional clubs in the country and doing it ironically seems lost on everyone but us.. I say, carry on doing it. If other fans are too thick to recognise irony then screw 'em.. we'l lead the way. Could be worse.. we could be living 30 or 40 years in the past like Forest fans - "You're only here for the Forest" just stinks of that Leeds style we still think were massive, when in fact no-one's cared about you for donkey's attitude.
Exactly. Is they're too witless to work out we're being ironic about the post Premier League hooray henry glory supporting fans then balls to 'em.
