One-nil to the Arsenaland so on ad nauseam or a brilliant goal. I remember a few old songs myself as an Ipswich supporter (and "One-nil to the Ipswich Town" went down pretty well at the 1978 cup final) but most of them are shockingly racist or make libellous claims about rival players or teams:
One-nil to the Arsenal
One-nil to the Arsenal
John Bond, John Bond shags his sonsung by the North Stand when Bond was managing Norwich and his son Kevin was playing for them, and then:
John Bond shags his son
Jigger, jigger, jiggerwhich was probably from the same game; it was certainly directed at Justin Fashanu, then the Norwich number nine and in the frame to take over as England's centre-forward from our own Paul Mariner. Fashanu subsequently bombed as a player and committed suicide after being outed as gay.
Kill that nigger!
Then there was:
What's it likedirected at Liverpool every time we met them in the early 1980s.
What's it like
What's it like to have no jobs?
I always loved:
We can't readbut that was a bit of a one-off self-parody. Does anyone have any footie chants that go beyond the obvious, the reactionary or the self-deprecatory?
We can't write
That don't really matter
We come down form Ipswich town
Riding on our tractors
Oooh-aaargh, oooh-aaargh, oooh-aaargh, oooh-aaargh
Oooh-aaargh, Oooh-aaargh
Oooh-aaargh, oooh-aaargh, oooh-aaargh, oooh-aaargh
Oooh-aaargh, Oooh-aaargh
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