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Just watching the Sunderland players listening to the fans sing Wise Men Say at the end of the game yesterday. Beautiful
Palace have Glad All Over
Forest have whatever it is
We could do with a song. Not sure it matters what it is. Just something everyone knows
Steps or something
I'll be there
Men of Harlech
The Lunatics Have Taken Over The Asylum.
Everton ... 'There she Goes.'
https://youtu.be/CZXLLMbJdZ4?feature=shared
Well, it's better than 'Z Cars.'
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My choice. Still a classic as it was when first played at Ninian Park in the late 1960's.
The Four Tops: Walk Away Renee
https://youtu.be/zvgovAzhJHU?feature=shared
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Some of the songs clubs sing before the kick-off have little or no real connection with the city they represent. Forest singing "Mull of Kintyre" WTF is that all about? Fulham, "Sweet Caroline" - nothing unique about that. Villa and Wolves sing the same song Hi-Ho Silver lining. At least L'pool, Arsenal, have songs that have a real connection with the place they represent. Others have songs that have been long standing songs e.g Palace with Glad all over - which is acceptable. We have 2 songs - one can really only be sung by Cardiff, the other is uniquely Welsh.They are, of course, I'll be there and Men of Harlech. Bout for mr it should be the former it links the City and the Valleys, it has real meaning and it's pert of our heritage.
Mull of Kintyre was number one at Christmas 1977. Forest went on to win the league that year. I assume that is why they adopted it?
We should adopt a Shirely Bassey song as she is a local girl. Diamonds are forever or Bluebirds are forver?
If you tolerate this relegation will be next
"You'll Never Walk Alone" is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. In the second act of the musical, Nettie Fowler, the cousin of the protagonist Julie Jordan, sings "You'll Never Walk Alone" to comfort and encourage Julie when her husband, Billy Bigelow, the male lead, stabs himself with a knife whilst trying to run away after attempting a robbery with his mate Jigger and dies in her arms.
Unless the real connection to the city of Liverpool is knifecrime and robbery, Im missing the link.
YNWA is no different for Liverpool than Mull of Kintyre or Glad All Over is for Forest and Palace. They adopted it because a scouse band did a cover version of the song in the 60s.
Loads of club’s fans sang You’ll Never Walk Alone in the 60s/early 70s. We did, even the Stretford End sang it, it wasn’t always uniquely Liverpool’s (or Celtic’s). In fact Man Utd fans adopted it after Munich ‘58.
Anyone remember Leicester away at Filbert St, first game of the season 1970? 1-0 win for us and we sang ‘The Wonder of You ‘ before the kick off, it would have made Elvis proud.
Peter Hooton of the farm wrote that song and he is a massive Liverpool fan (a real one).
Another band member was a big Everton fan and when they reached a cup final he asked Peter if they could use it to do the Everton cup final song and Peter agreed.
I heard Peter in later life tell the story that his father gave him a bollocking on his death bed because he allowed it to happen 😂
Simply the Best was arguably the most inspirational 'walk-out' song of the Ninian Park era, although Men of Harlech can have few to match it.
If the Cardiff fans can wean themselves off using the usual non-inspirational & abusive chants towards Swansea & England and the pathetic Sheep Sh@gging B@stards ... in a match then that might have a positive influence on those contemplating Cardiff City as the next step in their career.
‘Simply the Best’??????? The City are the reason why I hate that song. The useless team of the time coming out to that was a total embarrassment and trades description should have got involved. As someone once suggested on here many moons ago, ‘A hooded man ringing a bell should have led the team out bellowing ‘Bring Out Your Dead’
Ring of Fire. Sorted.