[Albion] Clapping while singing "Sussex By The Sea"

[Horses Arse]

This deserves its own thread.

I was one of the main driving forces behind the campaign that ended up with us singing the proper words to Sussex By The Sea.

That success is magnificent. It is so much better at The Amex and even better when done by our away fans.

But needed now is a similarly successful campaign to GET RID OF THE CLAP...!

Other clubs - notably Tottenham, Southampton, Liverpool and there are others - have worked out their anthems sound 100 times better when sung slower and without clapping.

Why can't we do the same? The fans representatives could play a role. It would need to be engineered for a while - but would quickly be established as the norm from which only a few real weirdos deviated.

Slower? All the best with that!! Loving your ambition.

 

[Dun Lurkin]

As a matter of interest (or not), in the days before Norman Wisdom created his version It was necessary to listen to what the crowd was singing to learn the words. It was generally a bit muffled so I sang ‘ you can tell them all that we play football, in Sussex by the sea’. It is so ingrained that I still want to sing that instead of ‘Stand or fall’. Due to my age I need the words on screen as a reminder and I also like to clap along in time to the music.

 

[trueblue]

Do we still need the two large karaoke screens tinpot

I’d get rid of that but keep the words on the hoardings for the hard of thinking, where it’s all a bit less obvious.

Failing that we could get a singer to belt it out from the centre circle every game - someone classy like that woman who goes on all the cruises, she’s a singer isn’t she?

 

[rippleman]

The Athletic tell me we only adopted SBTS when we moved to the Amex.


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That's Naylor for you. As often pointed out, he isn't even a BHAFC fan so not surprised he knows SFA.

 

[Deadly Danson]

That's Naylor for you. As often pointed out, he isn't even a BHAFC fan so not surprised he knows SFA.

Lucky he didn't write the article then.

 

[BigBod]

Slower? All the best with that!! Loving your ambition.

We could have a bouncing ball on the words on the screen, that'll do it....

 

[RandyWanger]

#idontwanttheclap #stoptheclap #saynototheclap #teamnoclap

 

[schmunk]

#idontwanttheclap #stoptheclap #saynototheclap #teamnoclap

As our American friends might say, for me clapping along is a "hard pass".


#passontheclap