That effing song of yours we knicked

[kozluk]

My dad tells me that every time that goal is shown and swears Ted wouldn't have let him waltz through like that. Typical Utd to be conceding in one of the most shown clips ever on TV.

We seem to have a lot of clips that are always used on tv. The Seaman save for example, even though I haven't seen that played in a while.

One of these days an overused clip will show a blade doing a worldie rather than against us.

 

[Gateford Blade]

My favourite....
if I had the wings of a sparrow, the dirty great arse of a crow, I'd fly over hillborough tomorrow. ..

 

[Pedro Verde]

Our stands made of wood
And our Kops made of tin
We'll drown all your bastards in bottles of gin
10,000 Wendy ites laid dead on the floor
They wont come on Shoreham St Kop anymore

So lets all drink to the death of the pigs
cant remember the rest

And to the tune of Grocer Jack (I think)

Alan Brown Alan Brown
Is it true that Ritchie said
Your Iron Lung has broken down
Repeated ........

 

[awblade]

I guess 'jack charlton is dead, and the pig fans have fled...' Is original??

 

[Pedro Verde]

I guess 'jack charlton is dead, and the pig fans have fled...' Is original??

Very original and it doesnt really make sense to anybody apart from Blades
Pigs dont have anything like our songs, we are pretty good at singing original songs and have quite a few of them

 

[Dkc]

"As I was a wandering, along the cliffs of Dover,
I came across a Wednesday fan, so I pushed the bastard over"

 

[grafikhaus]

Still the same.

Germany and Italian sides have a super fan, basically a conductor with a megaphone. He doesn't watch the match, his sole job being to sing and get yeh crowd singing. A lot of their chants are like a question and answer session.

I remember inter milan in 2003/04, me and me old chap watching a dull 0-0 v Barca and we thought the inter fans were really loud... Until we realised that there were speakers and they were piping crowd chants and songs through the sound system! Plastic feckers

I've always thought that the (wrong) impression of Liverpool fans as witty and original came from their trips into Europe in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc. Fans over there have always been allowed to express their fan-dom without getting a life ban for letting a fucking sparkler off. The Scousers simply heard songs, copied them and introduced them to the British game. Also, when teams like Liverpool and Man. U go abroad, they attract a significant number of glory-hunters from all over the globe (Not you, Swiss ), thus adding to the continental ambience.

Anyway. Old United songs.

'Bertie Mee said to Bill Shankly...'

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

I've always thought that the (wrong) impression of Liverpool fans as witty and original came from their trips into Europe in the 60s, 70s, 80s etc. Fans over there have always been allowed to express their fan-dom without getting a life ban for letting a fucking sparkler off. The Scousers simply heard songs, copied them and introduced them to the British game. Also, when teams like Liverpool and Man. U go abroad, they attract a significant number of glory-hunters from all over the globe (Not you, Swiss ), thus adding to the continental ambience.

Anyway. Old United songs.

'Bertie Mee said to Bill Shankly...'

If Swiss is a glory hunter he's not reight good at it.

 

[SwissBlade]

If Swiss is a glory hunter he's not reight good at it.

I'm just a cup tart, this season at least.

 

[Punk Blade]

'Hark now hear...' has never really made sense to me. In our version, why would Wednesday run away from their greatest derby victory? In their version, why would they need to fight forever more?

Swinging a pig has always been one of my favourites, and surely the all time greatest response to a rival's song.

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

'Hark now hear...' has never really made sense to me. In our version, why would Wednesday run away from their greatest derby victory? In their version, why would they need to fight forever more?

Swinging a pig has always been one of my favourites, and surely the all time greatest response to a rival's song.

I always interpret it like this: the "running away" isn't about the team... it's about what wendies do when they hear Blades "appearing over the horizon" singing....

 

[SwissBlade]

'Hark now hear...' has never really made sense to me. In our version, why would Wednesday run away from their greatest derby victory? In their version, why would they need to fight forever more?

Swinging a pig has always been one of my favourites, and surely the all time greatest response to a rival's song.

I think the song writers inspiration came from the boxing day defeat, looking deep into his inner soul he found the pain and hurt raging following that humiliation. As he battled these feelings he found that United fans were also lost, like himself, not knowing such pain, they came together and became a force to be reckoned with - because of the defeat, we became more United.

As a result the reference 'hark now hear, United sing' demonstrates the defiance shown by blades. 'The Wednesday ran away' could imply fear amongst wednesday fans, knowing that there would be retribution for beating us so heavily, the fear felt by Wednesday fans when we sing was enough to make them run, not running free though, running through fear. Fear of United. Fear that United, once beaten so heavily, that they would fight for ever more. And all of this because of the boxing day defeat.

Quite poetic and I can feel the pain of those older blades when they sing it alongside the rest of us

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

I think the song writers inspiration came from the boxing day defeat, looking deep into his inner soul he found the pain and hurt raging following that humiliation. As he battled these feelings he found that United fans were also lost, like himself, not knowing such pain, they came together and became a force to be reckoned with - because of the defeat, we became more United.

As a result the reference 'hark now hear, United sing' demonstrates the defiance shown by blades. 'The Wednesday ran away' could imply fear amongst wednesday fans, knowing that there would be retribution for beating us so heavily, the fear felt by Wednesday fans when we sing was enough to make them run, not running free though, running through fear. Fear of United. Fear that United, once beaten so heavily, that they would fight for ever more. And all of this because of the boxing day defeat.

Quite poetic and I can feel the pain of those older blades when they sing it alongside the rest of us

Without doubt the most painful defeat I've ever witnessed... first derby for 9.5 years... scoreline..... had to work behind the bar in Handsworth Working Mens club that night and have it rubbed in my face all night by dickheads that hadn't been to Owlerton for 20 years.... the gloating and sneering was much worse than after that game in April 93... and it lasted months... worse than any game that saw us relegated...

 

[Maidenhead]

Obviously a steal from Newcastle ...........

Oh mi lads, you should have seen em running
we were there in red and white, and they were all in ruins
all the lads and lasses there and all the smiling faces
going down to Bramall Lane to see the United aces

also,

we had joy we had fun, we had Wednesday on the run
but the joy did not last cos the bastards ran too fast

and liked we are the Shoreham end boys to the tune of Hot Love by T Rex

 

[bornablade]

Definitely worse than 1993. Felt totally humiliated. At the time I would see our goalkeeper Derek Richardson at work and before the game would always have a chat. After the BDM I could n't even look at the guy never mind talking to him. Unprofessional but felt thousands of Blades had been let down like never before or since.

 

[blade too long]

 

[Pierre's PC]

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This looks Shopped, I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time

 

[blade too long]

nah just add text , keep it simple

 

[Kenilworth]

I guess 'jack charlton is dead, and the pig fans have fled...' Is original??

Very original and it doesn't really make sense to anybody apart from Blades
Pigs dont have anything like our songs, we are pretty good at singing original songs and have quite a few of them

It doesn't make sense to me and never has done. Without doubt that's my least favourite Blades song. So much so that I never sing it.
Jack is still very much alive and is no where near the most hated Wendy individual - Curran takes that particular crown in my book (first grade TWAT)
Also, it's not fucking 1889 is it?

 

[Dkc]

Who can forget the old classic "We had joy, we had fun We had Wednesday on the run"

However, I've always wondered which is the correct version. Is it the "joy did not last cos the bastards ran too fast" or "the hills that we climbed was the shit they left behind"?

 

[sitwell]

Cheer up David Pleat
Oh what can it mean
to a kerb crawling bastard
and a shit football team.

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

A favourite from the mid-70s


Aye Aye Aye Aye
Shoreham Republican Army
Where ever we go
we fear no foe
cos we are the SRA....


which was kind of ironic because during that mid-70s period we never really went anywhere and if we did, we usually got a kickin'!

 

[COME BACK CHED]

Na Na Na Na hes a Blade and hes a Blade , surely no one else acts like we do on seeing a fellow Blade , miles away from Sheffield in the middle of June .

 

[COME BACK CHED]

A favourite from the mid-70s


Aye Aye Aye Aye
Shoreham Republican Army
Where ever we go
we fear no foe
cos we are the SRA....


which was kind of ironic because during that mid-70s period we never really went anywhere and if we did, we usually got a kickin'!

What happened was in the early seventies we topped the Hoolie arrest league table [ yes the Sun printed one ] , meaning we had no one left to defend our Manor

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

What happened was in the early seventies we topped the Hoolie arrest league table [ yes the Sun printed one ] , meaning we had no one left to defend our Manor

I think the number of arrests at Bramall Lane will have reflected the fact that Sheffield was geographically convenient for a lot of clubs with a good following, and in the 70s was seen as a good location for a ruck with easy meat..... Man Utd/City, Leeds, Liverpool/Everton, Leicester, Newcastle always brought big numbers and there were always lots of arrests because there was always something kicking off. So many of the arrests will have been visitors, not just locals. West Ham always came with small numbers but still attempted to run the kop every year...always felt like half of them were arrested or kicked out the ground before the game started.

I remember the day Liverpool turned up in 74/75 at about 1:30 when the gates opened and occupied the kop till about 02:30 when everyone had got in the ground. Their "joy" was short lived as they were chased relentlessly for the next hour all over the ground, with continuous arrests. The parallel white fences were put in up the kop after that game because of the way innocents were simply trampled, crushed and smacked around by those charging across the kop in big numbers running for their lives or trying to catch 'em. My Dad and I had season tickets in John Street on the Kop side and I wasn't confident I was safe that day.

 

[HillmortonBlade]

Today, sadly, I was driving a delivery van about and relying on 5 Live for my footballing updates, and when they had an update from The Hawthorns, clear as a bell, the Spurs fans singing the song they appropriated from us. Bless them.

 

[super_pig]

My favourite Blades song is "I'm a rambler, I'm a gambler" but I've never, ever heard it sung at a game. To be fair, it's probably a bit long to get going as a chant.

the best song is 'no pig fans in town' it is totally original to us

 

[Hamburg Blade]

The problem a lot of other clubs have is they've now got drums, you can't sing a proper footy song whilst some knob is bashing on his toy drum. Who thinks "I know what our football club needs - me, banging on a drum."?

 

[HillmortonBlade]

Thanks as always for a great report. I listened on the radio. 2/10 for Higdon sounds a bit harsh when he was clearly targeted by the Swindon players all through the first half, who were cynically trying to get him red carded.

OK we won but I still found our starting 11 baffling to say the least, with 4 of our best players on the bench. Credit to clough for starting with Adams though. But Freeman Coutts, Wallace, Davis and Higdon all in the starting 11? I can only assume that others were knackered after Wednesday. However, it could have all ended differently, and we could have been two down at the break. I wonder what the fans' reaction would have been if were were in the bottom half of the table this evening.

The problem a lot of other clubs have is they've now got drums, you can't sing a proper footy song whilst some knob is bashing on his toy drum. Who thinks "I know what our football club needs - me, banging on a drum."?

Or a trombone, or a trumpet. Vocal chords and beer, that is enough.

 

[Cyprus Blade]

I vaguely remember one to the tune of Pick a Bale ofCotton - "jump down, turn around kick em in the bollocks, jump down turn around kick em in the head, oh lordie kick em in the bollocks, oh lordie kick em in the head" and one for the scousers ( to the tune of in my liverpool home) " In the liverpool slums, in the liverpool slums, they look in a dustbin for something to eat, they find a dead rat and they think its a treat, in the liverpool slums"