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It hasn't stopped YOUR lot from singing it.Do Rangers fans not see the irony of them promoting a song with the line "you'll never be blue" in it?
It hasn't stopped YOUR lot from singing it.Do Rangers fans not see the irony of them promoting a song with the line "you'll never be blue" in it?
I like Cardiff singing Men of Harlech. The Welsh team singing Land of my Fathers always sounds good too.
Do Stoke fans still sing Delilah?
Only when they score.
Do Reading still come out to Sweet Caroline,or the owners wife's ditty. Either way,it's on a par with Glad all over for sheer naffness.
The problem with Men of Harlech is that there are so many versions of the words that it is impossible to gather thousands of people together and get them to sing the same anthem. The version I was taught at school in Wales begins with the line "Hark I hear the foe advancing ..." - nothing like the song that features in Zulu. The best that anyone can hope for is a decent hum. And that effort at West Ham isn't.Never in the history of football fans 'interpreting' song, has a piece of music been destroyed so completely as the Welsh national and Cardiff fans do to Men Of Harlech. Oh, and Harlech is about 3 hours from Cardiff, how does that work?
Exhibit a:-
Exhibit b:-
https://youtu.be/6an6PEEe0dM
I like Cardiff singing Men of Harlech. The Welsh team singing Land of my Fathers always sounds good too.
It hasn't stopped YOUR lot from singing it.
What about this pile of sh!te
The problem with Men of Harlech is that there are so many versions of the words that it is impossible to gather thousands of people together and get them to sing the same anthem. The version I was taught at school in Wales begins with the line "Hark I hear the foe advancing ..." - nothing like the song that features in Zulu. The best that anyone can hope for is a decent hum. And that effort at West Ham isn't.
Ours is the best, naturally. Its totally uniquely relevant to our club. Its a pity most fans STILL bin off the stirringly iconic "you can tell them all that we stand or fall" line in favour of nonsensical gibberish "we're going up to win the cup" line. That takes a slight edge off of it, but otherwise, its immense.
Worst is obviously Glad All Over. A completely meaningless piece of 60s tripe by a bunch of no-marks that is literally ONLY used for the big "DUM DUM" drum bit in the chorus. Thats it. It certainly suits the suffocating naffness of that rancid little boil of a club, but as an anthem its the absolute pits.
I love the going up to win the cup when I started going thats all that was sung back in the early 90 s so there is no way im ever going to change its only since the last few season stand or fall has been sung out by the jcl yes its the original song but I ve been going for over 20 years constantly and never heard anyone sing it apart from the last few seasons each to there own though
Indeed. My mum was taught a version that went like this (I can only remember the beginning):The problem with Men of Harlech is that there are so many versions of the words that it is impossible to gather thousands of people together and get them to sing the same anthem. The version I was taught at school in Wales begins with the line "Hark I hear the foe advancing ..." - nothing like the song that features in Zulu. The best that anyone can hope for is a decent hum. And that effort at West Ham isn't.