I'm convinced anyone <25 and in the north stand has drunk c6 cans of red bull/monster specifically for the purpose of helping them get the words out faster and faster each game.
More likely to be cocaine, but yes, probably!
I'm convinced anyone <25 and in the north stand has drunk c6 cans of red bull/monster specifically for the purpose of helping them get the words out faster and faster each game.
Hence the rebellion at Spurs and Saints... their signature songs got so bad that a group of older fans started a successful campaign to slow it down... it seems that anyone <25 seem to have the attention span of a goldfish, so rush the song to enable them to get on to a chant which doesn't have words of more than 1 syllable.I'm convinced anyone <25 and in the north stand has drunk c6 cans of red bull/monster specifically for the purpose of helping them get the words out faster and faster each game.
Good heavens! Bad day at the office, dear?Bloody stupid line! What on earth are people not supposed to understand about the fact we've got Anthony Knockaert?? (btw, it's not Knockheart, Flockhart, nor even Braveheart... but KNOCKAERT! ]
Understood?
Bloody stupid line! What on earth are people not supposed to understand about the fact we've got Anthony Knockaert?? (btw, it's not Knockheart, Flockhart, nor even Braveheart... but KNOCKAERT! ]
Understood?
I'm with you on that. Its great he has his own chant, but it doesn't make one iota of actual sense. What IS there to understand ?
Added to the fact the format is wrong
Don’t tell my heart (We’ve got Knockaert)
My achy breaky heart (Anthony Knockaert
I just don’t think he’d understand (I just don’t think you understand)
And if you tell my heart (He only cost a mill)
My achy breaky heart (He’s better than Ozil)
He might blow up and kill this man (We’ve got Anthony Knockaert)
The final line is supposed to rhyme with the 3rd line, but instead, we just repeat the 1st line again. It’s a SHAMBLES. We should do something like THIS:
We’ve got Knockaert
Anthony Knockaert
The greatest winger in the land
He only cost a mill
He’s better than Ozil
Your leftback will end up getting banned
Too late now though.
How the frig did they go up instead of us. What a total waste of a perfectly good PL place they are.
. . . And the award for the single most cringe inducing thing posted in this thread goes to;
Embarrassing.
Are football songs ever supposed to make much sense? At least Antony Nockhart's conveys a message to the opposition fans, i.e. "Look, we've got this bloody amazing player, and you haven't, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!", absolutely designed to crush their spirit and hopes. Or we could just stick with the original lyrics, only save them for bad days on the pitch when we feel there is a need to inform our players that we are very, very disappointed with them. Not sure about the final line though, talking of blowing people up probably isn't entirely politically correct nowadays. Football chants such as "Brightonnnnn an' 'ove Albion" to the tune of Go West, or "Solly, Solly Maarrch" to the tune of Daddy Cool really do do nothing more than state the blindingly obvious, which quite frankly makes us football fans sound a bit, well, thick.
Well they did win the play offs, so essentially yes.Embarrassing. Really ?
So you think Hull are actually worth a PL place ? .
Well they did win the play offs, so essentially yes.
Southampton started their season with about 10 senior pro's a couple of seasons back, they're doing ok aren't they?
They earned their place I suppose. But whats the point when you're just going to be the cannon fodder for a season ?
Not sure about the Southampton reference, they've been extremely well run for a number of years now, you cannot possibly compare them with the shambles going on at Hull at present.
The Southampton reference was a response to your slur against the amount of players Hull started the season with, as you correctly highlighted, Saints are very well run but they lost their manager and almost the entire first team in one summer, so it can happen to the best of them. I do share your frustration at seeing teams go up with little ambition of staying there, Burnley are another example.
Dissecting the original lyrics:
Do many people in Sussex still Plough and Mow, Reap and Sow? Why do those that do this also spend time Marching ? - the context means nothing to those who don't know the history of the song and is pretty meaningless to most in the original form. The original version is lyrically outdated and bares little resemblance to modern life in Sussex.
The Military connection has also been lost with the loss of the Royal Sussex Regiment, then add in that the song never became their regimental march, this was always "The Royal Sussex" and it was written in 1907, long before WW1 so doesn't directly come from that
The football version has been around for decades and is the traditional version for the football club, and not the Stand or fall version which wasn't sung (bar maybe a handful of individuals) before we moved to the Amex. I just don't see the reason to abandon our traditional, football related lyrical version
A history lesson? Nah. I just can't be bothered.
"You can tell them all that we stand or fall for Sussex by the sea" is outdated? Really?
And the military connection has been lost? That will be why it is played at Brighton's Remembrance Day parade each and every year then!
I'm with you on that. Its great he has his own chant, but it doesn't make one iota of actual sense. What IS there to understand ?
Added to the fact the format is wrong
Don’t tell my heart (We’ve got Knockaert)
My achy breaky heart (Anthony Knockaert
I just don’t think he’d understand (I just don’t think you understand)
And if you tell my heart (He only cost a mill)
My achy breaky heart (He’s better than Ozil)
He might blow up and kill this man (We’ve got Anthony Knockaert)
The final line is supposed to rhyme with the 3rd line, but instead, we just repeat the 1st line again. It’s a SHAMBLES. We should do something like THIS:
We’ve got Knockaert
Anthony Knockaert
The greatest winger in the land
He only cost a mill
He’s better than Ozil
Your leftback will end up getting banned
Too late now though.