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Bladesway said:
The lad comes and politely asks a few questions. Typical Sheffield mentality of not wanting anyone else to prosper. Welcome to the South Yorkshire hospitality Scott, its lovely.
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To be fair, someone born and bred South Yorkshire and Sheffield pays the bills to allow him the ability to come and take advantage of the members here without particularly asking permission to canvas the membership for his own possible competing purposes.... So we weren't all that un-accomodating ;)
 

Yeah, definitely of Rotherham Blades origin, and definitely originally 'Magnet'.
 
mattbianco1 said:
They're nowhere near the right words?!?!

Here you go...

My old man said be a wednesday fan, i said fuck off bollocks your a cunt.
We'll take hillsborough and all thats in it, we'll take hillsborough in just one minute
With hatchets and spanners, garden knives and spanners, we are the boys from Bramall Lane.
We go home and away on on a Sat-ur-day where the beer tastes all the same

My old man said be a wednesday fan, i said fuck off bollocks your a cunt.
He said come on we're going to the game, I said FUCK OFF i'm going down the lane.
So i went down to John Street, found myself a good seat, saw the boys go two up at the break.
Then it's off to the bar for a pint of Magnet and a meat pie filled with steak.
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I remember this song from my youth. It had particular relevance because my Dad was one of the unclean and my 2 Brothers were Blades.
We used to sing "With hatchets and hammers, bike chains and spanners". Anyone else use this version?
 
Darren said:
There's some old article in Flashing Blade where someone says that the GCB song was made up in the summer of 1981 and first heard at the Group Cup match at Grimbsy on 18th August 1981.

I don't know how accurate that is...
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Grimsby actually claim the original rights to this as well. Although its a night out in Nunsthorpe, which is a far less attractive prospect.
 
Hello pal. Personally I don't like the GCB, and the way it has come to define SUFC as much as the bubbles song or you'll never walk alone define West Ham and Liverpool. Especially dislike the fact that it is played over the tannoy before kick off and half time, and has been adopted by the club as the fans' "official" anthem. We used to have plenty of decent songs. I feel that the constant playing and singing of the bland GCB song has been detrimental to the "terrace culture" that used to exist, and, even though some fans would claim it's ironic, it perpetuates an image of backward northerners.

As for your title, anyone in the age of the internet can call themselves a journalist, but try getting into the press box at BDTBL and see how far you get. Call me old fashioned, but I'd use the term "researcher" or "writer" for someone in your position, and save the term "journalist" for NUJ / IFJ card-carrying hacks.
 
When I was a lad (in the late 1940s) before the Greasy Chip Butty song had been invented (I don't think we actually had chip butties either in those days), the crowd used to sing "On Ilkley Moor Bah'tat". Obviously a reference to Yorkshire, but even then it struck me as being odd for a Sheffield team.
 
Dkc said:
Hello pal. Personally I don't like the GCB, and the way it has come to define SUFC as much as the bubbles song or you'll never walk alone define West Ham and Liverpool. Especially dislike the fact that it is played over the tannoy before kick off and half time, and has been adopted by the club as the fans' "official" anthem. We used to have plenty of decent songs. I feel that the constant playing and singing of the bland GCB song has been detrimental to the "terrace culture" that used to exist, and, even though some fans would claim it's ironic, it perpetuates an image of backward northerners.

As for your title, anyone in the age of the internet can call themselves a journalist, but try getting into the press box at BDTBL and see how far you get. Call me old fashioned, but I'd use the term "researcher" or "writer" for someone in your position, and save the term "journalist" for NUJ / IFJ card-carrying hacks.
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Oooookkkaaaaaaayyyy!
 
Dkc said:
Hello pal. Personally I don't like the GCB, and the way it has come to define SUFC as much as the bubbles song or you'll never walk alone define West Ham and Liverpool. Especially dislike the fact that it is played over the tannoy before kick off and half time, and has been adopted by the club as the fans' "official" anthem. We used to have plenty of decent songs. I feel that the constant playing and singing of the bland GCB song has been detrimental to the "terrace culture" that used to exist, and, even though some fans would claim it's ironic, it perpetuates an image of backward northerners.

As for your title, anyone in the age of the internet can call themselves a journalist, but try getting into the press box at BDTBL and see how far you get. Call me old fashioned, but I'd use the term "researcher" or "writer" for someone in your position, and save the term "journalist" for NUJ / IFJ card-carrying hacks.
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And how about NCTJ, huh?

Again, thanks for the replies everyone!
 

I'm always amazed by the fact that there is no definitive version of where exactly the GCB originated.
 
The best GCB songs are those that spring up in adversity.

Arsenal at home, Premier League 06/07. 5 minutes to go, Blades 1-0 up, Jags in goal, hanging on for dear life. GCB song begins and echoes around the ground. Seemed to carry United home that did, never heard it sung with such gusto.

Same season after we'd been relegated against Wigan. 5 minutes after full time, up went the GCB song. Tearjerker that day, it was a defiant GCB song full of emotion.
 
It used to be sung at a proper tempo but now everyone rushes their OO's
 
ScottMcIver said:
And how about NCTJ, huh?

Again, thanks for the replies everyone!
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NCTJ was useful but I only used it to tick a box after I'd finished the course. I still had to write to literally every local paper in England before I found something but I was lucky enough to get out of the Crewe Chronicle sharpish.

I think the term 'journalist' is much more murky now since the advent of the interwebs. Beforehand anyone who wrote could use the term but writers for Gawker sites and those ilk are certainly bloggers and definitely not journalists.
 
You might want to check out other clubs that now sing it too. One of them is Altrincham FC a club in Conference North. I know that there are others but not sure who. I'm sure that there are some on here who will know.

Obviously the lyrics vary slightly.
 
I applaud the new healthy option version where greasy chip butty has been replaced by aubergine and feta cheese canopies, washed down with a demi tasse of elderberry wine
 
Feta cheese canopies? Now there's a sight to behold. Presty, picture please
 
Ted Danson said:
It used to be sung at a proper tempo but now everyone rushes their OO's
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Just like "oh when the Blades"... sounds better slower.

Kids these days all seem to think they're rappers innit and try and sing it as quickly as possible.
 
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