Quote Originally Posted by Enoch Mort View Post
I always thought that, apart from baiting the opposition fans, the main reason for singing/chanting ought to be to encourage the team on the pitch to greater things. Does this song do this ? The song is of a moderate tempo and hardly, in my view, inspiring. Are the City players supposed to pause for a moment and take comfort from the thoughtful lyrics when it is being sung ? When we were 2 down against Man City the song broke out and the away fans gleefully joined in. After all, they had nothing to worry about so it seemed to backfire a bit. Polite and reverential renderings of this song never seem to me to be the sort of catalyst that the team needs when they are losing.
It's an Inspiring Song of course!! Written by the late, great Robert Nesta Marley, or Bob Marley as he is known as. Marley never ever wrote one defeatist song in his entire life!

And even if you don't like it, it is still a thousand zillion times better than any "You Jack Barsteward" or anti English stuff (especially when we have had so many English players playing for us over the years ffs) chanted and sung by our more moronic chavvie element