Celery

[tedebear]

Blimey - youngsters these days - know not of celery! By gum...

 

[sweetmods]

'Ooo Ooo Caveman Crew'

 

[Seagullible]

This looks AMAZING

Reminds me of Oldam away at the start of the play off season Great day

 

[User removed 4]

What is the deal with Celery at football anyway? I know the chant, but where did it all start?

it started at chelsea in the 80s

 

[hitony]

What the hell is going on with some supporters throwing celery in the stands at the withdean!!! Makes the supporters look like pikeys!!! I will be annoyed if it happens in the new stadium!!!!!!!

Where do we get them from Newbies just trying to start a wind up

 

[Barrow Boy]

What the hell is going on with some supporters throwing celery in the stands at the withdean!!! Makes the supporters look like pikeys!!! I will be annoyed if it happens in the new stadium!!!!!!!

It's quite simple, you start off with fresh fruit and work your way up to salad vegetables, don't they teach youngsters anything at school these days.

 

[Uwinsc]

Cell-er-eee, Cell-er-ee, we're the famous Brighton and Hove Albion and we're throwing Cell-er-ee!

Spot on Horsham - North Stand - c. 1987?

Well I was hit by some celery being thrown to that song 2 years ago (it was closely followed by a blow up seagull which actually hurt!) so obviously it's been used much more recently than that!

 

[Superphil]

it started at chelsea in the 80s

I believe this to be the correct answer.

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

I believe this to be the correct answer.

For any reason?

 

[Couldn't Be Hyypia]

Well I was hit by some celery being thrown to that song 2 years ago (it was closely followed by a blow up seagull which actually hurt!) so obviously it's been used much more recently than that!

Not saying it hasn't been used more recently - just saying that that was the first time I could remember it being sung.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Last game at 'the' Withdean last season, kiddie behind me in H Block had a huge bag of the stuff. Asked him how he'd managed to get it past the stewards and he said he'd just told them it was for his personal use

 

[Cheeky Monkey]

Where do we get them from Newbies just trying to start a wind up

Or maybe not someone so new What bemuses me is the amount of people who treat it as a genuine question/post.

 

[KneeOn]

We've stopped throwing darts?

Noone told me. Shit, I'd better get some celery in.

If he told you why are you so surprised.

ho ho.

 

[Giraffe]

I recall seeing it on the late 80's on the East Terrace

 

[tedebear]

I recall seeing it on the late 80's on the East Terrace

What, just lying there on the terrace?

 

[JonathanLivingstonSeagull]

I read about this in a football fan book detailing various footie traditions. It had the Brighton celery song. 'If she don't come I'll tickle her bum with a stick of celery... Celery, Celery!'... so it went. But I never heard this at the Goldstone when I went as a youngster in the last few seasons of its life. Is it really that surprising younger fans don't know it? I wouldn't have had a clue had I not read about it and I'm 27. In conclusion, if you know about it and criticise someone as a noob for being confused, you are miserable old git.

 

[Return of the Rev]

gillingham v swindon at selhurst it rained celery 80's

 

[Nottseagull]

What is the deal with Celery at football anyway? I know the chant, but where did it all start?

I believe it's a play on the word salary, which was used in a chant against fans from less affluent regions than Sussex (such as....let me think now......ahh yes, Chesterfield!) during the recession of the early 1980s.

 

[D'Angelo Saxon]

I believe it's a play on the word salary, which was used in a chant against fans from less affluent regions than Sussex (such as....let me think now......ahh yes, Chesterfield!) during the recession of the early 1980s.

Ah ha. Much appreciated.

 

[Grassman]

it started at chelsea in the 80s

You see you say that. But I've read somewhere (if only I could remember where!) that we actually started it, well The Caveman Crew did, to be 100% accurate.