There are a number of Spurs ones I am exposed to (workmate is a season-ticket holder).
Sung to the tune of "I am the lord of the dance, said he", when Sol Campbell went missing from the Arsenal squad:
"Sol, Sol, wherever you may be, Not long now 'til insan-it-y, And we don't give a f**k if your swinging from a tree, You Judas c**t with HIV."
Nice.
"What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster? No, it's Chimbonda!"
"Do, Do, Dooooo, Didier Zakora..."
LOL, like those.
My mate's a, erm, a 'Spur' for want of the usual nickname, and probably knows most of those chants. He was right into football in the '80s (he's 40 now), knows loads of chants and likes to regale me with his youthful exploits of kicking seven shades of shit out of other football fans; in his eyes it was just getting into the spirit of things, and as long as nobody was really hurt (ie killed), then it was perfectly justified. Nutter, but he seems to have mellowed with age.
Back when he was arrested they used to sing this to the tune of that Craig David - Rewind tune, "Robin..Van..Persie..When the Girl says no..he rapppeeeessss her" Dark.
the variation i heard was 'when the girl says no..molest her'
that Sol Campbell chant is quality. 'swinging from a tree'
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A couple of good ones from East Anglia.
From Norwich City;
Delia Smith's a brilliant cook, She feeds our whole team porridge, She makes a cracking steak au poivre, But that don't rhyme with Norwich,
From Ipswich Town (to the tune of The Addams Family)
Your father is your brother, Your sister is your mother, You all fuck one another, The Norwich family
(Explanatory note for non-UK readers: Delia Smith is a famous British TV chef, who's also chairperson of Norwich City FC. Norwich's big local rivals are Ipswich Town, who consider Norwich fans to be inbreds. Norwich fans, in turn, refer to their rivals as "Gypswich")
I was at UEA (Norwich Univ) during their brief spell in the Prem, and I have to say, the entire city was behind the team. You could hear coverage of the games blaring from radios and tv everywhere you went on Saturdays, and strips with number 12 sold like hot-cakes after this!
reminds me of an excellent Norwich chant from a few years back. It references Tony Martin, a hero of the right-wing in this country who was jailed for shooting a guy in the back who had just robbed his house.
Starts with the usual:
There's only one Tony Martin. There's only one Tony Martin.
Another from the Kop: "He's red, he's white, His grandad stole a bike, Harry Kewell, Harry Kewell" (as he is Australian and therefore "Of convict stock".)
Sung TO visiting Liverpool fans to that opera tune: "We've got Dom Matt-eooooh, You've got our stereos.." (Liverpool famed for theft from cars)
I was at UEA (Norwich Univ) during their brief spell in the Prem, and I have to say, the entire city was behind the team. You could hear coverage of the games blaring from radios and tv everywhere you went on Saturdays, and strips with number 12 sold like hot-cakes after this!
Gutted again today. Our luck has to change soon. My wife watched the game and said after that she stopped watching after Arsenal equalized 'because Tottenham always collapse after the other team scores one back'
Mwahahaha! Joint top, and if I'd remembered to put Dean Ashton on the pitch instend of the bench, I'd be well ahead. Berbatov has[/b] to score against Birmingham this weekend, so he's gonna be my captain. If Jol takes him off, or if Jol insists on playing Jenas, and doesn't play Zakora (only player able to hold the Spurs mid together), then he deserves the boot imho.
Arsenal were quality. I never had any doubt that they'd beat Spurs.
Liverpool looked shaky last night - but Queresma, what a player! Amazing free-kicks and passes. If he learns to stay on his feet and can come infield now and again to vary his brilliant distribution, he'd be really, really good. Liverpool managed just about to keep him at arm's length (and he stayed on the touchline most of the game), and were just about worth a draw, even though half the team (particularly Gerrard) were strolling through the match. Pennant. What a muppett.
I still rate the Arse to do the double (Premiership & Champions League)
I still rate the Arse to do the double (Premiership & Champions League)
If Fabregas can stay fit, they may be in with a shout. They are not missing Henry and Van Persie hasn't woken up yet, and they are still top. I must stick with my ethics and not field United players.
While I've been impressed by Arsenal's start to the season I don't see the squad they currently have being strong enough to maintain a drive for the premiership this season.
Damnit, i'd still be top of i hadn't changed my captain from Fabregas to Ronaldo!
I think Arsenal have enough squad depth in all area except for the centre of defence, but they seem to have survived with Gallas and Senderos out so they should be ok.
I just got deducted 8 points doing some major transfers. I've been hanging around the top 10, as high as fifth, but only with some luck considering the dead weight I was carrying, including 2 injured defensemen for the past 3 weeks so I was 1 short every week ... anyway, hopefully this re-tooling will keep me in the top tier, and I'll make up the 8 points with one of my newbies ... yeah ...
Iraqis love soccer. Just how much they love soccer stunned some US troops. "Forget bowl season, the World Series, March Madness, and the Super Bowl, they don't care," wrote Michael, a pro-war soldier blogger in 2005. "They have more passion for the game of soccer than we ever thought of having for [American] football or baseball... In every mission I've been on, I've never once failed to witness a game of soccer."
Then Mike had a great idea. The US military should hand out soccer balls. Thousands of soccer balls. Soccer balls with names of US corporations or the faces of wanted terrorists on them. "Imagine thousands of Iraqi kids kicking around a ball with [Abu Musab al] Zarqawi's likeness on it. That would be a beautiful sight."
But Mike - a self-described "big dreamer" - didn't stop there. If soccer balls could win ordinary Iraqis over to freedom and democracy, then why not to Title IX style sports feminism as well?
"We could start an Iraqi women's soccer movement. Why not? I want to be able to give a soccer ball to that shy little girl standing behind the boys, watching her angelic face become a bright shining light as I reach over the boy's heads to place a ball into her hands. Of course there will be so many balls that the boys standing in front of her will have already received one. Maybe one day they can field an Iraqi women's Olympic soccer team. They could make their entrance onto the world stage at the 2012 Summer Olympics in New York City."
We need now to skip quickly over the inconvenient fact that women's soccer actually flourished under Saddam Hussein (and that the 2012 Games were awarded to London). And that women's games were shown regularly on Iraqi TV. "No one thinks that sports are just for men", Nadia Yasser, the captain of the Iraqi women's soccer team, told the New York Times in 2002 a year before the invasion and occupation.
Anyway, blogger Mike then googled "operation soccer ball" and - well blow me down - was amazed to discover that (kinda like at the end of the song Tie A Yellow Ribbon) hundreds of his fellow grunts had already had exactly the same idea.
After all, if the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, could not the War in Iraq be saved on the soccer fields of Baghdad? Give them balls - the theory ran - and their hearts and minds will follow.
As a result there are now probably more US-donated soccer balls in Iraq than there are depleted uranium shells - and that's a hell of a lot. The Pentagon was quick to jump on the soccer bandwagon. There are countless Department of Defense press releases and armed-forces newspaper articles, all written in a relentlessly upbeat Catch 22-speak in which victory is always and endlessly just one free soccer ball away.
On YouTube you can watch: troops with mad skills banging balls about with Iraqi urchins. Troops slinging balls out of choppers, and handing out balls to thrilled children. You can also read about troops handing over out-of-date Ipswich Town shirts to obviously delighted villagers.
Soccer even seems to have been integrated into the basic training of some units. "Our marines have to be able to be aggressive and hostile one moment and the next moment be able to play soccer with the kids on the street," said Lt. Gen James Conway, commander of the US Marines' First Expeditionary Force in 2006. Curiously those war-supporting neo-con wingnuts who'd previously bashed soccer as foreign, un-American and socialist, noticeably failed to condemn this soccerfication on the US war effort. Still, it must rankle with the die-hards.
The Greeks and Romans left us with athletics, boxing, wrestling and the Olympics. The British Empire gave the world cricket, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, competitive skiing and all the footballs. But the new American empire - despite dominating world culture in so many other ways - looks likely to leave as its sporting legacy the square root of bugger-all.
The US attempts to use soccer have met with mixed results. And it's not just the fact that every single time an Iraqi soccer player sees a microphone, they use it to condemn the US occupation, including the captain Younis Mahmoud.
A blogger for wired.com recently witnessed a ball giveaway that turned sourin Fallujah.
In Afghanistan donated balls caused outrage when it was discovered they were emblazoned with a quote from the Qur'an contained in the Saudi flag.
And in an article published on salon.com in February, a veteran described how a 2004 attempt to hand out balls went awry when it was discovered that all the balls were deflated. The troops were ordered to hand the balls out anyway, the officer in charge reasoning that recipients should be damn grateful to be getting any balls at all. Unfortunately, the Iraqis were not terribly impressed with the gesture. "They were like, 'What are you doing? What are we supposed to do with this?'" says Garett Reppenhagen. "Kids were wearing these soccer balls as hats. They were kicking them around. They were in trees. They were floating in canals. They were everywhere. There were so many soccer balls."
"Wow" wrote one reader. "Talk about a sorry metaphor for the whole stupid war."
While I've been impressed by Arsenal's start to the season I don't see the squad they currently have being strong enough to maintain a drive for the premiership this season.
It`s a long season. They haven`t played any of their rivals yet.Measure them then.. They might break back into the top three - the champions league is a definite no-no.
What`s wrong with Silva? Unusual for Wenger not to start a new signing yet?
I`m just about keeping my mouth shut from giving tips out on the fantasy league
I`m hoping Berbs can have the game he had against Bolton last season - after getting on the scoresheet against the cypriots in the uefa.
Chelsea and Un*ted just seem to be slow out of the blocks this season. I know the russians have injuries but I can't see anyone going the whole season with just two or three in the "L" column.
Arsenal should be top 3 at the end of it all. I'd like to see City claw into UEFA, that would be good. But the squad isn't deep enough - hopefully the owner's pockets are!
Due to injuries/suspension he's had to play centre of defence, and he's no good there. He'll be back to his usual position soon...
And Wenger has started a new signing, Bacary Sagna, fitting in really well as right back and pretty much guaranteed that Eboue will have to play right wing when he's back...
Chelsea and Un*ted just seem to be slow out of the blocks this season. I know the russians have injuries but I can't see anyone going the whole season with just two or three in the "L" column.
Arsenal should be top 3 at the end of it all. I'd like to see City claw into UEFA, that would be good. But the squad isn't deep enough - hopefully the owner's pockets are!
while i am typically the last to believe anything out of Jose's mouf, he did make a good point about the fact that the gap between the top of the Premiership is dissipating. When all the chips fall, i am sure the top 4 will still be there, but the idea of teams going without a few in the L column seems foregone this season.
as for the gunners, i also agree. i am waiting for them to actually lose a game to see how good they are. b/c last season they had challenges bouncing back from losses.
btw, does Man U have any first team players going to the Africa Cup? If so, is that just coincidence or does Fergie try to avoid African players?
Due to injuries/suspension he's had to play centre of defence, and he's no good there. He'll be back to his usual position soon...
And Wenger has started a new signing, Bacary Sagna, fitting in really well as right back and pretty much guaranteed that Eboue will have to play right wing when he's back...
Edurado? Dude will likely see a ton of playing time in Jan/Feb when Adebayor is at the A. Cup. I thought he should have been subbed for Van Persie against the Spurs. Robbie was invisible for 90% of that game.
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Post a chant or you're a Chelsea fan!
There's always the old fav
"Ooh-Ahh
Cantona
Say
Ohh
Ahh Cantonahhh"
Did Dean Windass ever have a chant?
Sung to the tune of "I am the lord of the dance, said he", when Sol Campbell went missing from the Arsenal squad:
"Sol, Sol, wherever you may be,
Not long now 'til insan-it-y,
And we don't give a f**k if your swinging from a tree,
You Judas c**t with HIV."
Nice.
"What's that coming over the hill? Is it a monster?
No, it's Chimbonda!"
"Do, Do, Dooooo,
Didier Zakora..."
The scousers have some good ones (No Munich ones)...
"He's tall,
He's red,
His feet stick out of bed,
Peter Crouch, Peter Crouch"
LOL, like those.
My mate's a, erm, a 'Spur' for want of the usual nickname, and probably knows most of those chants. He was right into football in the '80s (he's 40 now), knows loads of chants and likes to regale me with his youthful exploits of kicking seven shades of shit out of other football fans; in his eyes it was just getting into the spirit of things, and as long as nobody was really hurt (ie killed), then it was perfectly justified. Nutter, but he seems to have mellowed with age.
What tune is the Zakora one to?
the variation i heard was 'when the girl says no..molest her'
that Sol Campbell chant is quality. 'swinging from a tree'
From Norwich City;
Delia Smith's a brilliant cook,
She feeds our whole team porridge,
She makes a cracking steak au poivre,
But that don't rhyme with Norwich,
From Ipswich Town (to the tune of The Addams Family)
Your father is your brother,
Your sister is your mother,
You all fuck one another,
The Norwich family
(Explanatory note for non-UK readers: Delia Smith is a famous British TV chef, who's also chairperson of Norwich City FC. Norwich's big local rivals are Ipswich Town, who consider Norwich fans to be inbreds. Norwich fans, in turn, refer to their rivals as "Gypswich")
Let's Be 'Avin You:
I was at UEA (Norwich Univ) during their brief spell in the Prem, and I have to say, the entire city was behind the team. You could hear coverage of the games blaring from radios and tv everywhere you went on Saturdays, and strips with number 12 sold like hot-cakes after this!
Starts with the usual:
There's only one Tony Martin. There's only one Tony Martin.
Then comes the killer part:
Say we shoot burglars! Say we shoot burglars!
"He's red, he's white,
His grandad stole a bike,
Harry Kewell, Harry Kewell"
(as he is Australian and therefore "Of convict stock".)
Sung TO visiting Liverpool fans to that opera tune:
"We've got Dom Matt-eooooh,
You've got our stereos.."
(Liverpool famed for theft from cars)
Well there's not a lot else in Norwich is there..
They tried to make him go to West ham,
He said 'no,no,NO'
SPURS ARE RUINING MY SEASON
I will admit that those 2 goals were both beauties.
Spurs had many chances to go up by 2 and blew it.
Nobody but themselves to blame today. Wonder if Jol is out now?
Our luck has to change soon.
My wife watched the game and said after that she stopped watching after Arsenal equalized 'because Tottenham always collapse after the other team scores one back'
I still want to keep Jol.
spurs fans seem to still be behind jol. dude is a good mgr. tottenham would be stupid to let him go.
ade-bay-or
Arsenal were quality. I never had any doubt that they'd beat Spurs.
Liverpool looked shaky last night - but Queresma, what a player! Amazing free-kicks and passes. If he learns to stay on his feet and can come infield now and again to vary his brilliant distribution, he'd be really, really good. Liverpool managed just about to keep him at arm's length (and he stayed on the touchline most of the game), and were just about worth a draw, even though half the team (particularly Gerrard) were strolling through the match. Pennant. What a muppett.
I still rate the Arse to do the double (Premiership & Champions League)
If Fabregas can stay fit, they may be in with a shout. They are not missing Henry and Van Persie hasn't woken up yet, and they are still top. I must stick with my ethics and not field United players.
I think Arsenal have enough squad depth in all area except for the centre of defence, but they seem to have survived with Gallas and Senderos out so they should be ok.
I've been hanging around the top 10, as high as fifth, but
only with some luck considering the dead weight I was carrying,
including 2 injured defensemen for the past 3 weeks so I was
1 short every week ... anyway, hopefully this re-tooling will
keep me in the top tier, and I'll make up the 8 points with one
of my newbies ... yeah ...
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/sport/2007/09/19/how_soccer_became_a_weapon_in.html
Iraqis love soccer. Just how much they love soccer stunned some US troops. "Forget bowl season, the World Series, March Madness, and the Super Bowl, they don't care," wrote Michael, a pro-war soldier blogger in 2005. "They have more passion for the game of soccer than we ever thought of having for [American] football or baseball... In every mission I've been on, I've never once failed to witness a game of soccer."
Then Mike had a great idea. The US military should hand out soccer balls. Thousands of soccer balls. Soccer balls with names of US corporations or the faces of wanted terrorists on them. "Imagine thousands of Iraqi kids kicking around a ball with [Abu Musab al] Zarqawi's likeness on it. That would be a beautiful sight."
But Mike - a self-described "big dreamer" - didn't stop there. If soccer balls could win ordinary Iraqis over to freedom and democracy, then why not to Title IX style sports feminism as well?
"We could start an Iraqi women's soccer movement. Why not? I want to be able to give a soccer ball to that shy little girl standing behind the boys, watching her angelic face become a bright shining light as I reach over the boy's heads to place a ball into her hands. Of course there will be so many balls that the boys standing in front of her will have already received one. Maybe one day they can field an Iraqi women's Olympic soccer team. They could make their entrance onto the world stage at the 2012 Summer Olympics in New York City."
We need now to skip quickly over the inconvenient fact that women's soccer actually flourished under Saddam Hussein (and that the 2012 Games were awarded to London). And that women's games were shown regularly on Iraqi TV. "No one thinks that sports are just for men", Nadia Yasser, the captain of the Iraqi women's soccer team, told the New York Times in 2002 a year before the invasion and occupation.
Anyway, blogger Mike then googled "operation soccer ball" and - well blow me down - was amazed to discover that (kinda like at the end of the song Tie A Yellow Ribbon) hundreds of his fellow grunts had already had exactly the same idea.
After all, if the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton, could not the War in Iraq be saved on the soccer fields of Baghdad? Give them balls - the theory ran - and their hearts and minds will follow.
As a result there are now probably more US-donated soccer balls in Iraq than there are depleted uranium shells - and that's a hell of a lot. The Pentagon was quick to jump on the soccer bandwagon. There are countless Department of Defense press releases and armed-forces newspaper articles, all written in a relentlessly upbeat Catch 22-speak in which victory is always and endlessly just one free soccer ball away.
On YouTube you can watch: troops with mad skills banging balls about with Iraqi urchins. Troops slinging balls out of choppers, and handing out balls to thrilled children. You can also read about troops handing over out-of-date Ipswich Town shirts to obviously delighted villagers.
Soccer even seems to have been integrated into the basic training of some units. "Our marines have to be able to be aggressive and hostile one moment and the next moment be able to play soccer with the kids on the street," said Lt. Gen James Conway, commander of the US Marines' First Expeditionary Force in 2006. Curiously those war-supporting neo-con wingnuts who'd previously bashed soccer as foreign, un-American and socialist, noticeably failed to condemn this soccerfication on the US war effort. Still, it must rankle with the die-hards.
The Greeks and Romans left us with athletics, boxing, wrestling and the Olympics. The British Empire gave the world cricket, basketball, baseball, golf, tennis, competitive skiing and all the footballs. But the new American empire - despite dominating world culture in so many other ways - looks likely to leave as its sporting legacy the square root of bugger-all.
The US attempts to use soccer have met with mixed results. And it's not just the fact that every single time an Iraqi soccer player sees a microphone, they use it to condemn the US occupation, including the captain Younis Mahmoud.
A blogger for wired.com recently witnessed a ball giveaway that turned sourin Fallujah.
In Afghanistan donated balls caused outrage when it was discovered they were emblazoned with a quote from the Qur'an contained in the Saudi flag.
And in an article published on salon.com in February, a veteran described how a 2004 attempt to hand out balls went awry when it was discovered that all the balls were deflated. The troops were ordered to hand the balls out anyway, the officer in charge reasoning that recipients should be damn grateful to be getting any balls at all. Unfortunately, the Iraqis were not terribly impressed with the gesture. "They were like, 'What are you doing? What are we supposed to do with this?'" says Garett Reppenhagen. "Kids were wearing these soccer balls as hats. They were kicking them around. They were in trees. They were floating in canals. They were everywhere. There were so many soccer balls."
"Wow" wrote one reader. "Talk about a sorry metaphor for the whole stupid war."
It`s a long season.
They haven`t played any of their rivals yet.Measure them then..
They might break back into the top three - the champions league is a definite no-no.
What`s wrong with Silva?
Unusual for Wenger not to start a new signing yet?
I`m just about keeping my mouth shut from giving tips out on the fantasy league
I`m hoping Berbs can have the game he had against Bolton last season - after getting on the scoresheet against the cypriots in the uefa.
Arsenal should be top 3 at the end of it all. I'd like to see City claw into UEFA, that would be good. But the squad isn't deep enough - hopefully the owner's pockets are!
Due to injuries/suspension he's had to play centre of defence, and he's no good there. He'll be back to his usual position soon...
And Wenger has started a new signing, Bacary Sagna, fitting in really well as right back and pretty much guaranteed that Eboue will have to play right wing when he's back...
while i am typically the last to believe anything out of Jose's mouf, he did make a good point about the fact that the gap between the top of the Premiership is dissipating. When all the chips fall, i am sure the top 4 will still be there, but the idea of teams going without a few in the L column seems foregone this season.
as for the gunners, i also agree. i am waiting for them to actually lose a game to see how good they are. b/c last season they had challenges bouncing back from losses.
btw, does Man U have any first team players going to the Africa Cup? If so, is that just coincidence or does Fergie try to avoid African players?
j/k
I meant the Croatian striker.
Fucking students.
Edurado? Dude will likely see a ton of playing time in Jan/Feb when Adebayor is at the A. Cup. I thought he should have been subbed for Van Persie against the Spurs. Robbie was invisible for 90% of that game.
WTF!!! rumor is that Jose left CFC? London Strutters confirm?
wow. later dude...