Cheeky Monkey
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- Jul 17, 2003
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The team have to perform or they're not getting significant vocal backing is the general NSC stance. BHA fans are reactive and not proactive apparently.
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[Albion] Something HAS to be done about the home atmosphere
- Thread starter JonnyComeEarly
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Just been watching Mainz v TSG (don’t ask) and the Mainz fans have been singing the theme tune from The A Team for most of the second half. Perhaps a tv theme tune is the answer? I’ll put forward Knight Rider, Teletubbies and Mastermind (this last one will require a DRUM).
Mr Bridger
Sound of the suburbs
Are you being served.
BBassic
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- Jul 28, 2011
- 13,102
I vote for Countdown but on the proviso that when we all do the "da da da dadada DONG" bit someone has to be putting the ball in the net.
It'll require a great deal of co-ordination and knowing roughly when we're about to score but I think we can do it.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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maffew
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This would be epic
Wizbit. Anyway won't happen - seems all the chants are more or less the same nowadays - I note Chelsea were singing the same (ridiculous) Champions League song as us earlier. And the Europe again olé song is everywhere in different forms. Must be a Tik Tok thing or something. Shame as it's so much better to have unique songs. Still nothing for Fab or Carlos of course.
Whut? I get the disappointment.
I told the lad its completely normal (rather than 'utterly bizarre' as he thought) to get disappointed when not winning against the worst team in the league. This is the correct and accurate answer.
That getting disappointed about not beating the worst team in the league is something unique for die hard megafans is incorrect.
If you make a global survery beginning from the 1889-90 football league season asking the question "how did you feel when your team didn't beat the stillborn punching bag-relegation fodder at the bottom of the table?", people would say "disappointing". Human nature. If you lose a dart competition to a blind guy you also get disappointed.
studio150
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Jeux Sans Frontieres
For the European return
For the European return
I’m just about to smoke one as well
Nigella's Cream Pie
Fingerlickin good
Night game, bottom team, Sky
A lot of English fan bases describe themselves as such.
The main difference between European football atmospheres in general and that in England is the lack of Italian influence.
Many Europeans followed Serie A as their "main foreign league" in the late 1980/90s. By then supporters all over Europe had already adopted the "casual hooligan" subculture from England, and with that also the singing and the chanting.
But people who went to Europe and saw their teams play against Italian teams were also amazed by the "ultras/tifo" culture with drums, megaphones, capos, flags, burning motorcycles, pyro and the whole f***ing chaos. Mixed with booze and British singing it just becomes... loud and intense.
30-40-50k drunk people with fireworks make noise, its just the way it is.
England weren't playing in European competitions and missed out on the tifosi train both out of that lack of influence but of course also for the obvious reason that neither people nor the Taylor Report felt it was time to import a 'burn down the stadium'-culture invented by Italian nazi/commie-anarchists. The safety first-think has remained consistent in English football since then. There won't be a Paul Barber tweet saying "BRING YOUR f***ing BOTTLE TOPS!" before the Palace game.
Domestically it seems in most countries that the variation in loudness doesn't come from some "difference in passion/amount of love/other nonsense", but from how drunk they were when the supporter cultures were initially formed. Did you have a good side and drunk working class fans in the (usually) 1960s when people started regularly singing in the stands? Chances are good you'll still be loud because your reputation is to be loud. If West Ham fans weren't blowing bubbles 70 years ago they sure as f*** wouldn't start today. A tradition to be "loud" or "weird" gets kind of self-fulfilling.
(please note that this is in no way, shape or form a comment about the atmosphere of any Brighton game, Brightonians in general, the United Kingdom or any of its citizens. I repeat: this is not an attack.)
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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I recommend The Big Match.
The words are really easy to learn, too.
Daa daa daa d' d' da da Dan
d' d' da da Daa
d' d' da da Dan
It is important to not mix up the Daas and the Dans, though.
Failure can have dangerous consequences
Or do I mean daagerous?
Hometownglory
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- Jan 12, 2014
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I blame the 'Europe again, Ole Ole' and 'You're going down with the Palace' chants after we scored. Pretty sure we did that against Wolves too and guess what? Both games went to shit. Not that I'm superstitious or anything...
Chelsea sing “Palmer again” and have done since last season.
Loads of scummy fans singing it on repeat after the Amex evening game at the end of last season.
Ike and Tina Burner
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- Mar 22, 2019
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They're pretty much the only chants everyone will join in with though
jonny.rainbow
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- Oct 29, 2005
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It’s amazing how little you hear the away fans singing when you sing yourself.
Worth a try.
Worth a try.
Peacehaven Wild Kids
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Exactly, that is why posting five verse versions of late 1960s hits that Burt Baccarat himself would have been proud of and then being puzzled why it doesn’t catch on is an exercise in futility.
Short, sweet, the less words the better.
Bob’s yer uncle.