The Best TV Football Chant Ever
CHELSEA and Manchester United fans flocking into Red Square may be wondering what they should be singing.
The Surrey Blues may enthuse about vegetables and the Cockney Reds about doing the Lambeth Walk, but they should know that the top tune on the football terraces is Nessun Dorma.
The Performing Right Society survey of radio and telly found that Luciano (“You fat bastard”) Pavarotti’s performance of the aria is the most widely-played football song.
Arsenal’s 1998 FA Cup Final song Hot Stuff was No2 ahead of DJ Otzi’s 2002 World Cup remix Hey Baby.
Fans may well scratch their heads. Anorak’s own survey of televised football matches, songs heard on live broadcasts, reveals that the top football songs are:
* You Don’t Know what You’re Doing (Steve McClaren Mix; Kevin Keegan, Glenn Hoddle Remix)
* One World Cup And Two World Wars (World Cups ad nauseum)
* “Park Park, wherever you may be/ You eat dogs in your home country/ It could be worse, you could be Scouse/ Eating rats in your council house” (Man U fans serenade Korea’s Park Ji Sung)
* The referee’s a *anker
* You’re going home in a St John’s ambulance
* One man went to mow, went to mow in Moscow…
And many, many more…
May 21st, 2008 at 12:37 pm
Well it’s got to be:
His armband proved he was a Red, Torres, Torres
You’ll Never Walk Alone it said, Torres,Torres
We bought the lad from sunny Spain
He get’s the ball, he scores again
Fernado Torres, Liverpools number nine.
May 21st, 2008 at 12:38 pm
Sorry Fernando
May 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm
It’s a very nice song, MrsT, with or without the n.
Does it have a tune?
At the moment my brain is insisting it should be sung to ‘O bli Di, Obli dah’, but I’m pretty sure that my brain is wrong.
It’s all the fault of my dentist…
M and A
Hope its all went ok and that is it til the next checkup?
Mine went very well; back in six months or longer if you like….
May 21st, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Chelsea are the greatest parody Chant artistes that ever graced the terraces.
After the infamous Delia Smith slurred “Come on! Lesh be avenue!” at Norwich at Half time…
To the marriage of Figaro, of course:
“We’ve got Abram-ovich,
You’ve got that drunken b****”
Or the time that David Ellory was giving an interview and a passing Chelsea fan saw him and chanted:
To “Hallelujah”
“Da-vid Ellory,
Is a w*****,
Is a w*****,
Is a w*****,”
Not true Anorak, the operatic references continue…
May 21st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
chenier
To the tune of ‘When Johnny comes marching home’
May 21st, 2008 at 1:24 pm
Thank you, MrsT.
Catchy little number, even if it isn’t by Lennon and McCartney.
I may be able to sing it once the anaesthetic has worn off…
May 21st, 2008 at 1:39 pm
although i am no great fan of football i have to post my favourite football song, it is well made (probably well funded) well sung and certainly hits that point that makes you think why didn’t my team come up with this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygb5PiSNXbs
as i said i aint a fan of football or this team, but credit is due where credit is due, enjoy
May 21st, 2008 at 1:50 pm
The beeb reported some time ago that a bunch of spurs (who?) fans, on spotting a rather rotund fan in the opposition end at a European match, started up a chant of
“I predict a diet”.
Excellent stuff.
May 21st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
bulldump, a link to a Man U video !!!!! …… yukkkkkk
but seeing as I’m crap at links ….. you tube - torres song , away you go and enjoy
May 21st, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Olay Olay Olay Jose Mourhinno is gay!!!!!!
great QPR song!!! 
May 21st, 2008 at 4:58 pm
To the tune of The British Grenadier, this song was sung at Ayresome Park in the seventies.
I kid you not.
Some talk of Alexander, and some of Hercules ,
Of Hector and Lysander, and such great names as these,
Of all the worlds great footballers, there’s none that can compare,
With H.I.C.K.T.O.N,
that’s Hickton of Middlesbroooo
May 22nd, 2008 at 6:49 pm
the following song was sung to liverpool back in the eighties when there was not even anything worth stealing in the city and unemplyment was rife.
sung to the tune of walk on with hope in your heart.
Sign on, sign on
With hope in your hearts
but you’ll never find a job
you’ll never find a job.
sign on, sign on