Why are our fans so quiet

[brian green]

I think football fans are more respectable these days.   My friends around me on the Holte spend a great deal of the time during matches talking about cars and holidays.   Two or three of them talked on and off through the whole Spurs game about the cricket.

It is the march of progress.   The Paul McGrath song whilst being in very bad taste can throw up some amusing three syllable punch lines "empty seats", "shit support" and "won fuck all" being typical.   As football songs go it is a complicated build up and rarely gets sung at really top volume.

Likewise how can young fans be lifted to burst a blood vessel with a song about "Spinky and Birchy and Alan McInally"?   You could be singing about the family of Ethelred the Unready as far as they know.

In the forties and fifties when a working man earned twenty quid a week on the track at Longbridge admission to the Holte was two bob (10p) and a pint of Ansells mild ale before the game was one and a tanner (8p).

Being a football fan was much more basic in those days.   The noise was deafening.   It was a visceral rumble which rose to ear splitting roaring with the ebb and flow of the game and could be heard in the city centre.   When Dennis Law stamped on Alan Deakin's face I thought my ears would burst with the roar which went up from the crowd.

Like so many things these days the singing and chanting and vocal support at football matches is expected to be done on cue and to a set of rules, cheer led by somebody on the public address system telling us what to do.   When I hear all those manic announcements about getting behind the lads in claret and blue and getting those three points I join in the cars and holidays conversation.

[Des Little]

Quiet is one thing, but our song repertoire is gash.  Embarrassing even.

[damon loves JT]

Quiet is one thing, but our song repertoire is gash.  Embarrassing even.

Yesterday I tried to start a sixteenth-century madrigal composed by John Farmer.

Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone
Feeding her flock near to the mountain side.
The shepherds knew not,
they knew not whither she was gone,
But after her lover Amyntas hied,
Up and down he wandered
whilst she was missing;
When he found her,
O then they fell a-kissing.


No bastard joined in.

[Des Little]

Your problem Damon is that although a lovely ditty, it doesn't contain any reference to Blues, defacating, Paul McGrath, drinking or even empty seats.  Perhaps a re-think may work if you can shoe horn some (or all) of these in?

[damon loves JT]

Your problem Damon is that although a lovely ditty, it doesn't contain any reference to Blues, defacating, Paul McGrath, drinking or even empty seats.  Perhaps a re-think may work if you can shoe horn some (or all) of these in?

have a watch of this. i reckon it would be a winner

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[DeKuip]

Don't know about you lot but last night I was just enjoying the peace and quiet and being away from screaming kids, yackity-fucking-yacking women and shit TV for a few hours.

Bliss.

[damon loves JT]

I'm a steward in the away section now and every set of fans that come take the piss bout how quiet fans are

well, throw a few of them out then. Feign injury and get them charged with assault or something

[TopDeck113]

Why are our fans so quiet this season it's shocking

Shit Songs!
We always sing shit songs,
We always sing shit songs,
We always sing shit songs

You don't even know the words.

It actually goes something like this: Shit songs, m'lord. Shiiiiiiiiit songs...

[Legion]

One shit song, we've got one shit song...

[AV82EC]

To be honest, I get involved less and less with the singing these days as we have such a crap collection of songs. 

I don't quite know whats happened around the club at the moment but it feels to me as we've got the collective hump about being dumped by our girlfriend and we can't quite let it go and move on. 

What we need is Leadership, what we're getting is Management........

[Rudy Can't Fail]

Your problem Damon is that although a lovely ditty, it doesn't contain any reference to Blues, defacating, Paul McGrath, drinking or even empty seats.  Perhaps a re-think may work if you can shoe horn some (or all) of these in?

Try this:

Fair Phyllis I saw shitting all alone
Feeding her flock near to the Holte End side.
The Villa Army knew not,
they knew not whither she was gone,
But after her love of the Villa hied,
Up and down we wandered
whilst she was missing;
When we found her,
O then they fell a-kicking.

[damon loves JT]

Your problem Damon is that although a lovely ditty, it doesn't contain any reference to Blues, defacating, Paul McGrath, drinking or even empty seats.  Perhaps a re-think may work if you can shoe horn some (or all) of these in?

Try this:

Fair Phyllis I saw shitting all alone
Feeding her flock near to the Holte End side.
The Villa Army knew not,
they knew not whither she was gone,
But after her love of the Villa hied,
Up and down we wandered
whilst she was missing;
When we found her,
O then they fell a-kicking.

Excellent. The English madrigal tradition was the source of the phrase `fa-la-la', so we'd need to chuck in a few of those.

fa-la-la, my liege, fa-la-la

[Mattwall]

I just feel that the holte has been silent this season and it's meant to be the 12th man and it's far from that ATM

[WarszaVillan]

I took my daughter to her first match last night and sat in the North Stand for the first time in over 20 years. Jesus it was so quiet - people could hardly muster the energy to clap when we got a corner.

[villa1]

Too cold to remove hands from pockets!