Terrace chants from the 80s

[garyshawsknee]

There was a team called City,
They come from Birmingham.
They got knocked out the FA Cup,
By Non-League Altrincham.
It was in the final minute,
The referee blew up.
And now those blue and white bastards
Are out the FA Cup
Oooh ah ha ha ha ha etc etc.

Altrincham was replaced with Harriers in honour of Kiddie repeating the feat and Blue and White seemed to change to Blue Nose.

The tune was the laughing policeman.

One that has gone without trace was the very eighties:

Ooohwaay ohway ohway ohway, Villaaaa, Villaaa. Although most teams had their own version.

 Cheers for that info.

[adrenachrome]

Sorry that all my contributions to this topic seem to involve threats violence, but such were the times:

I was born under the Holte End Stand
I was born under the Holte End Stand
Boots are meant for kicking
That's just what they'll do
When we get up the Tilton Road
We'll kick fuck out of you

[The Left Side]

We definitely sung that about Tony Adams just after he got banged up.

[the-farmer]

as a teenager on the Holte, I knew if "Knees up Mother Brown" started up, you needed to be just bottom side of the crash barriers pronto or you might get squashed

another one against Liverpool or Everton was

In the Liverpool Slums . . .
In the Liverpool Slums
They look in the dustbin for something to eat
They find a dead dog & they think it's a treat
In the Liverpool Slums

[adrenachrome]

If I had the wings of a sparrow
If I had the arse of a crow
I'd fly to St. Andrews tomorrow
And shit on the bastards below

Francis. Francis
I'd walk a mile and a bit
To rub your face in the shit
Oh, Francis

[ez]

Can you hear us on the box?
Can you hear us on the box?
Birmingham (shit)
Birmingham (shit)
Can you hear us on the box?

[TopDeck113]

At one stage in the 80s the only chant you ever heard was:

Here we go, here we go, here we go,
Here we go, here we go, here we go,
Here we go, here we go, here we goooo,
Here we goooo,
Here we go!

They don't write them like that any more...

[DeKuip]

"Francis, Francis" whenever a dog ran on the pitch – something that used to happen a lot but you never see nowadays.

[Damo70]

Nigel Spink throws the ball to Platty, flicks it on to Paul McGrath then on to Tony Daley, Tony Daley down the wing like a torpedo, puts the ball in the net does Tony Cascarino. I think that started on the trip to Milan in 1990.(close to the eighties!)

Gary Shaw,Gary Shaw, Gary Gary Shaw, when he gets the ball he's bound to score, Gary Gary Shaw.

[UsualSuspect]

It might be my memory playing tricks but I seem to recall we were the first team to play Arsenal after Tony Adams got sent down (just before xmas 1990 0r 1991?) and we had fun singing "wheres your donkey gone" - nice nativity link but i think that went over my head at the time.

Remember it well

I liked the rendition of "are you watching in your cell"

[ez]

It might be my memory playing tricks but I seem to recall we were the first team to play Arsenal after Tony Adams got sent down (just before xmas 1990 0r 1991?) and we had fun singing "wheres your donkey gone" - nice nativity link but i think that went over my head at the time.

Remember it well

I liked the rendition of "are you watching in your cell"

Yep live on tv i think.
Where's ya donkey gone
where's ya donkey gone

[Bernie]

I will go back further.

Whose that knocking on the window ?
Whose that knocking on the door ?
Its Freddie Goodwin and his mob selling Vincent for a bob.
And they wont beat the Villa any more.

..for en even earlier version replace the "It's Freddie...." line with:-
"There'll be Cullis and his mob selling Greenhoff for a bob"

[Damo70]

Does anyone else remember this? At home to Liverpool about a week before Christmas 1982. There used to be a segment on central news called Newshound with Bob Warman, some other bloke (John something I think) and a dog (pretty sure he was called Oscar). Big crowd versus Liverpool, shortly before kick off Bob,John(?) and Oscar come onto the pitch introduced by the announcer. They get the 'banter' you would expect from a terrace in the eighties. First they try to get the whole ground singing 'You'll never walk alone'. You'll never guess what - strangely The Holte aren't on board with that idea! So then they try for one big 'We wish you a merry christmas' which does actually get started but turns quickly turns into a medley (years before Jive Bunny), firstly support for The Villa and then our festive feelings for Liverpool FC and scousers in general. I made sure to watch on the Monday night and I seem to remember a very short piece about them going to Villa Park to sing carols, a few seconds showing them coming on the pitch waving and smiling and very little live sound from the day. I'm sure I've got some of the details wrong but please somebody confirm I didn't imagine all of that!

[spk]

Damo,the song actually went,Nigel Spinks throws the ball to Platty,flicks it up to Paul Mcgrath who passes it to Daley,Tony Daley down the wing like a torpedo,kicks the ball in the aiiiiir,for Tony Cascarino

[spk]

I first heard it on Cascarinos debut,derby away 1990