[Albion] What Albion chant (past or present) still brings a smile to your face?

[Lady Whistledown]

Memory is not good but I think we had a specialist song just for a man high up in a tree at Orient, that went "tree man, there's only one tree man"...

That chap was nuts the tree was moving from side to side.

After they filled in the corners of Brisbane Road with flats, you could sometimes see into the windows, if it was a night game and the residents had the lights on. I'm pretty sure that attracted a few songs of the "We can see you making tea" variety, and almost certainly a traditional "get your tits out for the lads" if there was a female occupant of course.

My all time favourite was during the Gillingham era, when the Mansfield Town keeper turned up one year sporting a black and yellow hooped jersey. The moment he approached the "home" end for the second half, he was faced with 45 minutes of bored Albion fans making buzzing noises behind the goal, resulting in a constant drone reverberating around the sparsely occupied wastelands of Priestfield. Every time he caught the ball or lined up a goal kick, the noise intensified. The buzzing was occasionally interspersed with choruses such as "You only sting when you're winning" and "what a waste of honey".

Football fans at their best Even he was laughing

 

[Codner pharmaceuticals]

You spelled "sath" wrong

 

[AlbionBro]

After they filled in the corners of Brisbane Road with flats, you could sometimes see into the windows, if it was a night game and the residents had the lights on. I'm pretty sure that attracted a few songs of the "We can see you making tea" variety, and almost certainly a traditional "get your tits out for the lads" if there was a female occupant of course.

My all time favourite was during the Gillingham era, when the Mansfield Town keeper turned up one year sporting a black and yellow hooped jersey. The moment he approached the "home" end for the second half, he was faced with 45 minutes of bored Albion fans making buzzing noises behind the goal, resulting in a constant drone reverberating around the sparsely occupied wastelands of Priestfield. Every time he caught the ball or lined up a goal kick, the noise intensified. The buzzing was occasionally interspersed with choruses such as "You only sting when you're winning" and "what a waste of honey".

Football fans at their best Even he was laughing

With the larger lads around now, I like to think a "get your tits out for the girls" might be an option too now!
I used to get up to Gillingham a lot but It sound like I missed a good match that day. Nice story.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

With the larger lads around now, I like to think a "get your tits out for the girls" might be an option too now!
I used to get up to Gillingham a lot but It sound like I missed a good match that day. Nice story.

It almost certainly wasn't a good match- other than a 4-4 Boxing Day draw, I'm pretty sure there weren't any up there, but the crowd interaction with the keeper was brilliant. Would probably only work in a small stadium where there isn't much ambient noise.

 

[topbanana36]

It almost certainly wasn't a good match- other than a 4-4 Boxing Day draw, I'm pretty sure there weren't any up there, but the crowd interaction with the keeper was brilliant. Would probably only work in a small stadium where there isn't much ambient noise.

Paul Emblem hattrick that day. You had to be entertained at Gillingham somehow.

 

[warmleyseagull]

Sung in Away end at Exeter:
"My garden shed is better than this"

 

[Guinness Boy]

Seven pages and I don't think anyone's mentioned @Stumpy Tim being seranaded in Rome with 'he's got a pizza on his head' because, well, because he had a pizza on his head.

 

[Whitley Bayster]

Remember an away game at Hartlepool where we were particularly shit

The fairly small away following were doing Doug Loft chants all game. Loft will tear you apart, all you need is Loft etc

He then did an incredible bit of skill right in front of us and we all went mental

I remember that! Superb moment

 

[Thunder Bolt]

After they filled in the corners of Brisbane Road with flats, you could sometimes see into the windows, if it was a night game and the residents had the lights on. I'm pretty sure that attracted a few songs of the "We can see you making tea" variety, and almost certainly a traditional "get your tits out for the lads" if there was a female occupant of course.

My all time favourite was during the Gillingham era, when the Mansfield Town keeper turned up one year sporting a black and yellow hooped jersey. The moment he approached the "home" end for the second half, he was faced with 45 minutes of bored Albion fans making buzzing noises behind the goal, resulting in a constant drone reverberating around the sparsely occupied wastelands of Priestfield. Every time he caught the ball or lined up a goal kick, the noise intensified. The buzzing was occasionally interspersed with choruses such as "You only sting when you're winning" and "what a waste of honey".

Football fans at their best Even he was laughing

You've reminded me of a dire away game at Chesterfield, where their keeper was Muggleton. All sorts of silly Harry Potter chants followed but the keeper was enjoying them.


Earlier today, I remembered You are my Brighton (Sunshine) It's jolly, everyone can join in, and timeless. We haven't sung it for years.

 

[tronnogull]

Stand up if you can't sit down.........

That was funny and hopefully will never be needed again.

 

[Sea Cider]

We're the North Stand etc etc always brought a smile to my face (because I thought it sounded brilliant, not amusing)

No idea why it died, one of the best Amex chants IMO

 

[The Optimist]

Wasn’t there an Exeter (?) player who back in the Goldstone days used to get chants of wolf man or something like that?

Also away at I think a West Country team one of their fans got really angry about something and we started chanting ‘one mr angry’ or something similar. That didn’t improve his mood!

My memory of both these things is letting me down, hopefully someone else remembers the details better.

 

[The Optimist]

Has anyone mentioned ‘Olympics’ being chanted when we played le Harve in a pre season friendly? London having just been awarded the Olympics ahead of Paris.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

It almost certainly wasn't a good match- other than a 4-4 Boxing Day draw, I'm pretty sure there weren't any up there, but the crowd interaction with the keeper was brilliant. Would probably only work in a small stadium where there isn't much ambient noise.

One of ours got a hat trick. I seem to recall looking him up and he scored something like 75% of his entire career goals in that one match. Can't remember his name now.

Probably the best performance at Gillingham was the 3-1 against Scunthorpe.
I mean, 3-1 to Scunthorpe who were absolutely brilliant that afternoon.
Tore us apart with smiles on their faces.

 

[Brovion]

"When I were a lad ...."

When I first started going to Brighton games in the 60s the North Stand sang songs. Amongst them were :
Daisy Daisy
Molly Malone
f*** 'em all
You'll never walk alone
Distant Bums (drums)
Cock o' the south

Obviously a lot (all?) were generic as other clubs used to sing them as well. I wonder if any club has such a repertoire of songs now?

And not so much a chant, but when I very first started going in 1966/67 and used to stand on the Chicken Run, there was a bloke who shouted "Come on the twin towns!" Never heard that since!

 

[ElderlyWilliam]

“Three seats, you‘re taking up three seats” Sung at Tranmere in 2007 to a very large home supporter sitting alone close to where the ball had gone out of play. The whole ground broke out in laughter.

 

[Tillo]

Despite it’s semi crudeness, I used to like the Anti Ref chant
Who‘s the wanker, who‘s the wanker, who’s the wanker dressed in black

 

[Moshe Gariani]

"There's f*** all wrong with you! " for @jackalbion

 

[jackalbion]

One that has genuinely made me laugh, was at Bournemouth someone started 'if you can't bang a woman, bang a drum'

 

[Insel affe]

An oldie from Preston away back in I think 1993, the local Leland Daf factory closed in Leyland just outside Preston...

The Brighton fans rocked up singing "There's only one Ford Transit, There's only one Ford Transit"

Made me chuckle, as the Preston fans were going mad....