The "You're too ugly to be gay" chant

[The Large One]

That is as funny as f***. You lot may just have a sense of humour.

Yes, we have evolved our basic human functions, and many more besides.

You should try it.

 

[The Large One]

We can see you coming out,
we can see you coming out.

You know the tune.

You're too ugly to be gay is embarrassing.

'You're too ugly...' reinforces a positive stereotype, and it leaves the neanderthals with nowhere to go with their 'banter'.

Yours is something that neanderthals would be singing to us, along the lines of 'we can see you holding hands...', as if 'coming out' was something to be ashamed of.

 

[Seagull on the wing]

1-0 to the nancy boys

 

[16bha]

There is already an iconic football song in existence which we could use. 'Go West' by the Pet shop boys. Mainly used by our Teutonic Cousins, but we could certainly camp it up more for our purposes.

Has anyone heard this sung by other English clubs?

 

[The Large One]

There is already an iconic football song in existence which we could use. 'Go West' by the Pet shop boys. Mainly used by our Teutonic Cousins, but we could certainly camp it up more for our purposes.

Has anyone heard this sung by other English clubs?

Seeing as the tune is already used by most, if not all, clubs already - I think it may lose a little of its irony.

 

[Silent Bob]

The whole point of the chant is to embarrass and confuse homophobes isn't it?

 

[fork me]

"You're too ugly..." is probably my favourite football chant, or at least my favourite football retort - if it goes over the head of the one-joke bigots who start the "does your boyfriend" chants in the first place, then that makes it better still.

My favourite comeback was several years ago at Millwall, we scored just after they started the gay chants and we responded with "1-0 to the nancy boys"

I also quite liked the "I'm gay but I shagged your wife" chants one year at Palace.

 

[fork me]

I remember some team giving us does your boyfriend know you ere, Brighton fans reply was hes over there, he's over there point at their fans

That one, I like.

 

[pasty]

We can see you coming out,
we can see you coming out.

Simple, yet brilliant. Genuine laugh out loud

 

[smudge]

'You're too ugly...' reinforces a positive stereotype, and it leaves the neanderthals with nowhere to go with their 'banter'.

Yours is something that neanderthals would be singing to us, along the lines of 'we can see you holding hands...', as if 'coming out' was something to be ashamed of.

That's how you interpret it. I see it as throwing their so called abuse back at them & us laughing at them. They just don't get the "you're too ugly" chant.

 

[Silent Bob]

That's how you interpret it. I see it as throwing their so called abuse back at them & us laughing at them. They just don't get the "you're too ugly" chant.

You have to be pretty dumb to not understand what someone means when they say you're ugly.

 

[Gritt23]

You're too thick to understand.

Spot on.

 

[The Large One]

That's how you interpret it. I see it as throwing their so called abuse back at them & us laughing at them.

'We can see you holding hands' / 'We can see you coming out' - little difference. You're countering them with the same message - i.e. that they're gay.

They just don't get the "you're too ugly" chant.

They DO get the 'You're to ugly...'. It's a chant-stopper of a line, with the counter-accusation that 'we might be gay, but you're ugly - which is FAR worse', and it leaves them with nowhere to go.

 

[hitony]

vale?

Funny you should say that, I was trying to think if it was Port vale or Burnley....obviously Port Vale

 

[Telford Seagull]

We love to watch the B and H A
We love to watch the B and H A
You always give us gay shit
But its you who loves it
You just need to all come out

top work sir!

 

[Waynflete]

'We can see you holding hands' / 'We can see you coming out' - little difference. You're countering them with the same message - i.e. that they're gay.



They DO get the 'You're to ugly...'. It's a chant-stopper of a line, with the counter-accusation that 'we might be gay, but you're ugly - which is FAR worse', and it leaves them with nowhere to go.

Agree with TLO. Any counter-chant that effectively translates as 'no, you're the ones who are gay' misses the point and reinforces the idea that being gay is something to be ashamed of, which it isn't.

 

[Notters]

That is as funny as f***. You lot may just have a sense of humour.

It's certainly funnier than "grunt grunt snort spit"

 

[Shropshire Seagull]

1-0 to the nancy boys

First heard this at Molineux about 5-6 years ago - any song that is hard for the opps to counter is sound by me.
"You're to ugly to be gay" is a smart and sophisticated response that opps find difficult to respond to - its actually quite funny too ...

 

[Stat Brother]

I remember it being sung to Coventry (the last year of there old ground).

-Their yoof were giving the usual.
-We replied.
-They stood quietly listening.
-Very very slowly the penny dropped.

and


eventually

-they went mental.

Very very funny.

 

[Sussex on Leith]

We can see you coming out,
we can see you coming out.

Quality

My favourite comeback was several years ago at Millwall, we scored just after they started the gay chants and we responded with "1-0 to the nancy boys"

I remember that one too, it was class. I think the Millwall fans must have enjoyed it too, as they insisted on giving us lots of their money - via the aerial route - while we were queuing for the train. Such a generous bunch - if anyone's thinking of giving busking a try, then South Bermondsey seems like the ideal place to do it.