The Great Escape, and NOT Praise You?

[Gilliver's Travels]

Apologies if it's been raised elsewhere. I was astonished to hear the Great Escape ringing out after the final whistle on Monday night. If ever there was an unimaginably wonderful moment to blare out Praise You, this was surely it.

The Great Escape: hackneyed old film tune for teams that have just avoided the drop.

Praise You: a perfect fit, with those emotion-wrenching lyrics "We've come a long, long way together, through the hard times and the good…"
And, to cap it all, written by one of our own, and used to celebrate all of Albion's many victories at the Amex, over the last six seasons.

So disappointing. Anyone know why the change was made?

 

[Petee]

I assume the Great Escape was used to describe the completed journey from near non-existence to the top flight.

 

[WATFORD zero]

I thought it was for Hereford to Here

 

[Behind Enemy Lines]

Agree, made no sense at all. Ok if the players like Sweet Caroline fair enough but where was "Sussex by The Sea" ? In general, I think keep the music to a minimum and let the fans sing.

 

[Triggaaar]

I assume the Great Escape was used to describe the completed journey from near non-existence to the top flight.

Exactly. It's not often you'll hear it when a team has achieved promotion while their rivals still have 5 games to play. It was unique, because it wasn't describing a handful of games, but over 2 decades of fight.

Made perfect sense to me when I heard it.

 

[Wilko]

They did not even play Sussex by the sea!

 

[Nixonator]

Made perfect sense to me, withdean aside, on the pitch at the Goldstone with tears in my eyes, 20 years later on the pitch at the Amex with tears in my eyes for different reasons.

 

[Bold Seagull]

The Great Escape for me also came to define the Amex era with that astonishing atmosphere when we had Vincelot and Barnes sent off inside the first 20mins against Burnley, and the Amex boomed for the next 70 mins as the team gave everything, and in all honesty we should have won the game.

 

[BBassic]

Would have liked GOSBTS but Great Escape makes sense because of the journey we've been on and, in a more literal sense, we've escaped the Championship.

 

[Notters]

Praise You and We Are the Champions will both hopefully make an appearance next week.

 

[Triggaaar]

We did have GOSBTS before the start of each half, it's not like it was totally absent.

 

[Giraffe]

Definitely missed having GOSBTS. Note for the title celebrations.

 

[Papa Lazarou]

I preferred it to Anthony Knockaert's choice of song to sing...

 

[Moshe Gariani]

Couple of quite bizarre musical choices (on the PA I mean, not by Knocky who is way beyond any blame...). An open goal the size of a house and someone still managed to slice it wide...

 

[Me and my Monkey]

Wasn't Praise You played immediately after The Great Escape?

 

[chaileyjem]

PS: for those that haven't heard it ...then guess this new version of Praise You might pop up on some montages of the season. It might be a bit John Lewis ad for some (in fact its a Lloyd Bank ad) but it got me in the right mood for Monday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlOWczjQKGs

 

[chaileyjem]

PS: Great Escape was played to a) ramp up the atmosphere successfully pre whistle before Sheff Weds play off last May and b) memorably after *that* 10 men 2-1 win also v the Massive in January.

It has a pretty rich tradition now.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

After Bristol I hope they play loads of songs, it is a party after all right?

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[Behind Enemy Lines]

PS: Great Escape was played to a) ramp up the atmosphere successfully pre whistle before Sheff Weds play off last May and b) memorably after *that* 10 men 2-1 win also v the Massive in January.

It has a pretty rich tradition now.

It has but imho best used in the context when we're up against it.

 

[rippleman]

Apologies if it's been raised elsewhere. I was astonished to hear the Great Escape ringing out after the final whistle on Monday night. If ever there was an unimaginably wonderful moment to blare out Praise You, this was surely it.

The Great Escape: hackneyed old film tune for teams that have just avoided the drop.

Praise You: a perfect fit, with those emotion-wrenching lyrics "We've come a long, long way together, through the hard times and the good…"
And, to cap it all, written by one of our own, and used to celebrate all of Albion's many victories at the Amex, over the last six seasons.

So disappointing. Anyone know why the change was made?

Could I recommend that you read "Build A Bonfire"? That magnificent tome will help you understand just how great our escape has been. From minutes away from going out of the football league, to hours away from being placed in administration and effectively ceasing to exist. That's right...no club to support. It has been THE great escape and a worthy and most appropriate tune to celebrate our joining the English games elite.