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With the many song suggestions on here recently, it got me wondering.....

I'm wondering who actually gets the crowd singing at games? Is it different people or is there normally one leader? Who is it or what kind of fans are they? I mean is it someone who's been going t'Lane for donkeys or is it one of our favourite young scrotes (when they're not trying to be hard in front of their gang of mates or destroying away teams facilities)?

Perhaps if we knew who they were, then the budding songwriters on here could just write to them (or text, whatsapp or whatever the kids are into now) with their song suggestions?
 



I just assumed almost everyone had started a song off at some point.
 
Anyone who can get a bit of volume in their voice can and does start chants. I've started plenty over the years but sometimes, you look like a twat when you try to start one and within 2 seconds another one works it's way over from the other side of the stand so yours doesn't catch on. You have to be loud and you have to be willing to sing alone if it doesn't catch on.
 
blades95 said:
I did it when I was a young kid and thought it was funny but now I'm too scared it will fall flat on it's arse.
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Aren't you 22? You're allowed to look a twats still at 22!
 
1danewhitehouse said:
Anyone who can get a bit of volume in their voice can and does start chants. I've started plenty over the years but sometimes, you look like a twat when you try to start one and within 2 seconds another one works it's way over from the other side of the stand so yours doesn't catch on. You have to be loud and you have to be willing to sing alone if it doesn't catch on.
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Yes, once you've started you have to finish it. It's just as embarrassing when you hear someone near you start a chant, think 'I'll join in' and then as you do, the other bloke stops.
 
coaxingstar71 said:
With the many song suggestions on here recently, it got me wondering.....

I'm wondering who actually gets the crowd singing at games? Is it different people or is there normally one leader? Who is it or what kind of fans are they? I mean is it someone who's been going t'Lane for donkeys or is it one of our favourite young scrotes (when they're not trying to be hard in front of their gang of mates or destroying away teams facilities)?

Perhaps if we knew who they were, then the budding songwriters on here could just write to them (or text, whatsapp or whatever the kids are into now) with their song suggestions?
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Get Eskimo out of retirement must be still alive.
 
You've got to be one of those legendary big blokes mentioned on that Kop Leaders thread. There's a lull in the game, the crowd noise is down to the general background hubbub. That's when he stands up. 6 pints down, 21 stone, never ran a mile in his life, but here he goes - "WUUUUUUUUURRRRRGGGGGHHHH NEVER FELT MORE LIKE SWINGIN' A PIG"
 
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Lane Ender said:
Get Eskimo out of retirement must be still alive.
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please please please tell us the story of Eskimo - his name was just a legend when I started going aged 10 in 1968 - but I never got to find out about him because as a youngster I had to sit in the brand new BLS Upper with my dear father and keep my nose clean - I didn't get my Doc Marten bovver boots Harrington jacket & Levi sta-prest until I escaped paternal control and got onto the Kop.
So I feel there's something significant missing from my Blades pedigree.
C'mon , spill the beans , dish the dirt , regale us with a tale or two.
 
coaxingstar71 said:
With the many song suggestions on here recently, it got me wondering.....

I'm wondering who actually gets the crowd singing at games? Is it different people or is there normally one leader? Who is it or what kind of fans are they? I mean is it someone who's been going t'Lane for donkeys or is it one of our favourite young scrotes (when they're not trying to be hard in front of their gang of mates or destroying away teams facilities)?

Perhaps if we knew who they were, then the budding songwriters on here could just write to them (or text, whatsapp or whatever the kids are into now) with their song suggestions?
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Ziga zaga ziga zaga UNITED.
 
Keen Blade said:
please please please tell us the story of Eskimo - his name was just a legend when I started going aged 10 in 1968 - but I never got to find out about him because as a youngster I had to sit in the brand new BLS Upper with my dear father and keep my nose clean - I didn't get my Doc Marten bovver boots Harrington jacket & Levi sta-prest until I escaped paternal control and got onto the Kop.
So I feel there's something significant missing from my Blades pedigree.
C'mon , spill the beans , dish the dirt , regale us with a tale or two.
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Edward Evans
 
Chant leaders? How's about this classic:

"Your goin to get your fuckin heads kicked in"

Always liked that melody.
 
Or the classic 'your going home in a Sheffield ambulance....'
 
I'm ont back row of the Kop so I get the odd one going from time to time.

It's often a shambles, to be frank. Summet gets going in the middle then summet else drifts over from Gangway G.
 
Will the Bramall Lane upper tier become the new singing area? It would be good, just there to sing and create an atmosphere, and of course support the Blades.
 
Remember going to a match at the Lane in the early 90s which was a full house (might have been the 2-1 cup win v Man Utd in 93). Been a bit of Blades attacking play and the crowd hushed a little.

Being a bit pissed and in the John Street west terrace I took a gamble and went for it proper by belting out 'you fill up my senses' complete with arms out and knowing it was glory or ridicule awaiting me. Luckily, the guys around me picked up the baton and in the blink of an eye the chant went all around the ground via the kop with even the south stand lads joining in with full chant. The glory was mine and I had a few admiring glances from the younger lads in the terrace that day. I retired my chant starting career after that though as I wanted to go out at the top of my game. Too many hang on and don't know when to retire.
 
Keen Blade said:
please please please tell us the story of Eskimo - his name was just a legend when I started going aged 10 in 1968 - but I never got to find out about him because as a youngster I had to sit in the brand new BLS Upper with my dear father and keep my nose clean - I didn't get my Doc Marten bovver boots Harrington jacket & Levi sta-prest until I escaped paternal control and got onto the Kop.
So I feel there's something significant missing from my Blades pedigree.
C'mon , spill the beans , dish the dirt , regale us with a tale or two.
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That much to tell pal but I was hard core from 72-82 that many stories to tell.
Let's enjoy what's happening now UTB
 



Last time I started a song was ages ago...too frightened now! I remember starting 'one nil and we've got Paul Shaw' at Gillingham away just a day after we poached Shaw from them...in hindsight I'm not sure we were the winners in that transaction. That song ended up as 'three nil and we've got Paul Shaw'.
 
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