"We're all blades aren't we"???

[Old Skool]

If it winds our piggy bretheren up then I am all in favour of its usage !!!!

 

[blade too long]

Does anyone know what words Burton use for Greasy Chip Butty

You fill up my senses
like a half of Marstons
Like an electronic cigarette
like a custard puff
Like a night out in Lichfield
Like a nice prawn salad wrap
you fill up my sensesI wish we were good

 

[Bob Socks]

The term "pigs" is one that originated with Blades fans in 79-80 as a reference to "Piggy Jack Charlton".... a "pig-fan" was someone that was a fan of Jack Charlton (so a wendy fan by connection) - it was nothing to do with the clubs or the general supporter base at all when it started.

This is now one that is shared with both sets claiming it as their own - with some extremely contrived back-stories. But it was never a term used before that season and was certainly not used in respect of fans calling each other pigs - they simply never did.

"Red and White Wizards" was one that started thanks to a couple of blokes on the John Street Terrace East - next to the old players tunnel. They were the resident "wits" on there with a script of comments that would spew forth predictably when incidents happened.... like a handball... "Come on ref, he's had the lace out twice".... and the old woman with them that used to shout "Edwards you dozy dog" all the time (even when he wasn't playing)... eventually those around them started joining in the last part of the "...wizards..." as the players came out, which gave rise to the popular use of it.

You're a few years out pal, i first heard the term 'Pigs' on October 8th 1973.

 

[blade too long]

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[LoughboroBlade]

Interesting. What are the lyrics?

You fill up my senses
Like a small glass of expensive Aass lager
Like a packet of Kjøttboller
Like a good pinch of snus
Like a night out in Gulskogen
Like a greasy pickled herring butty
Like Strømsgodset
Come fill me again
Na na na na na na na...Flo!

 

[Sothall_Blade]

You fill up my senses
Like a bottle of Carlsberg
Like a drive in a Volvo
Like a song by Aha
Like a beautiful blonde girl
Like a night out with Santa
Like FC Strømsgodset
Come fill me again

(Yes, I know I'm lumping all my Scandinavian stereotypes in together)

 

[Woodwardfan]

Does anyone know what words Burton use for Greasy Chip Butty

As far as I could hear just the same apart from " a night out in Burton" and " like Burton Albion".

 

[wizadry]

As far as I could hear just the same apart from " a night out in Burton" and " like Burton Albion".

Do they say Maggots or Magnet though, that's the key question

 

[Woodwardfan]

Do they say Maggots or Magnet though, that's the key question

Can never tell

 

[Grappler]

I remember "all Blades aren't we" back in the late 70's, where the word "Blades" basically replaced the word "mates". So for example, walking back from the bar, someone stumbles and spills a few of the pints he is carrying, all his mates groan and he shrugs and says "all Blades aren't we?", so in other words it doesn't matter as we are all mates, or all family.

S6 added the "we're" to make it WAWAW, which of course, when you say that out loud, sounds like this.....

 

[wizadry]

It's a Wendy slogan.......and they can fucking keep it. Imagine being so dumb that you have to remind yourselves which team you support.

I cringe whenever I hear Blades say it, it makes me sick.

So yeah, I'm not a fan.

We're all Blades aren't we

 

[BushBlade]

I remember "all Blades aren't we" back in the late 70's, where the word "Blades" basically replaced the word "mates". So for example, walking back from the bar, someone stumbles and spills a few of the pints he is carrying, all his mates groan and he shrugs and says "all Blades aren't we?", so in other words it doesn't matter as we are all mates, or all family.

S6 added the "we're" to make it WAWAW, which of course, when you say that out loud, sounds like this.....

I thought WAWAW was the noise they made when they went down in 1990.

 

[Bergen Blade]

Interesting. What are the lyrics?

Du fyller mine sanser - same
som et glass med St. Hallvard - Norwegian liqueur
som en pris under leppa - snus, the Scandinavian version of snuff
som ei halv ei med Aass - local beer
som en natt ut i Drammen - their town
som en pølse på Dalen - a local sausage
som Strømsgodset IF
så fyll meg igjen.

Lalalalalala – OH!

 

[blade too long]

Du fyller mine sanser - same
som et glass med St. Hallvard - Norwegian liqueur
som en pris under leppa - snus, the Scandinavian version of snuff
som ei halv ei med Aass - local beer
som en natt ut i Drammen - their town
som en pølse på Dalen - a local sausage
som Strømsgodset IF
så fyll meg igjen.

Lalalalalala – OH!

no mention of herring ?

 

[Sean Thornton]

You're a few years out pal, i first heard the term 'Pigs' on October 8th 1973.

Yep I'd go for much earlier than 79/80. First time I heard pigs really use it was after the Boxing Day game.

 

[GRUMPY BLADE]

Interesting. What are the lyrics?

He'll never spell it.

 

[WhiteHawk]

It's a Wednesday thing, and I fucking hate it when I hear anyone say "We're all Blades aren't we?"

Wednesday having it stitched into the back of their shirts is just embarrassing.

 

[Bladeloyal]

The term "pigs" is one that originated with Blades fans in 79-80 as a reference to "Piggy Jack Charlton".... a "pig-fan" was someone that was a fan of Jack Charlton (so a wendy fan by connection) - it was nothing to do with the clubs or the general supporter base at all when it started.

This is now one that is shared with both sets claiming it as their own - with some extremely contrived back-stories. But it was never a term used before that season and was certainly not used in respect of fans calling each other pigs - they simply never did.

"Red and White Wizards" was one that started thanks to a couple of blokes on the John Street Terrace East - next to the old players tunnel. They were the resident "wits" on there with a script of comments that would spew forth predictably when incidents happened.... like a handball... "Come on ref, he's had the lace out twice".... and the old woman with them that used to shout "Edwards you dozy dog" all the time (even when he wasn't playing)... eventually those around them started joining in the last part of the "...wizards..." as the players came out, which gave rise to the popular use of it.

B that is how it was and how it is any other convoluted story is just well convoluted.not that a swine will admit it

 

[Sean Thornton]

Charlton became manager at the Sty in 1977. Unlikely anyone would wait two plus years to think that up. Used well before 1979 as has been said. Blades older than me were always using it.

 

[WhiteHawk]

Re the Charlton discussion, why do we sing the line "Jack Charlton is dead, and the Pig fans have fled"?

 

[penthouseblade]

I thought it was because they used Hogg Travel (or a name to that effect) for away games in the 70's??

 

[Pedro Verde]

why do we sing the line "Jack Charlton is dead, and the Pig fans have fled"?

Because we can
It makes no real sense but thats why its such an original song

 

[rotweissler]

I always thought that the endearing term "Pigs" came when someone added a snout & ears to the Fowl logo

 

[DifferentClass]

I thought WAWAW was the noise they made when they went down in 1990.

I thought it stood for "We're all wankers, aren't we?"

 

[borbokis]

Fucking WAWAWAWA is possibly THE most embarrassing thing about Sheffield Wednesday football club and that's fucking saying something. Please fellow blades, please please please don't use this sorry excuse for a catchphrase

 

[Dnblade]

The term "pigs" is one that originated with Blades fans in 79-80 as a reference to "Piggy Jack Charlton".... a "pig-fan" was someone that was a fan of Jack Charlton (so a wendy fan by connection) - it was nothing to do with the clubs or the general supporter base at all when it started.

This is now one that is shared with both sets claiming it as their own - with some extremely contrived back-stories. But it was never a term used before that season and was certainly not used in respect of fans calling each other pigs - they simply never did.

"Red and White Wizards" was one that started thanks to a couple of blokes on the John Street Terrace East - next to the old players tunnel. They were the resident "wits" on there with a script of comments that would spew forth predictably when incidents happened.... like a handball... "Come on ref, he's had the lace out twice".... and the old woman with them that used to shout "Edwards you dozy dog" all the time (even when he wasn't playing)... eventually those around them started joining in the last part of the "...wizards..." as the players came out, which gave rise to the popular use of it.

I can remember the COYRAWW shout from the Kop MPF,certainly early 70's..maybe before.It was shouted from a bloke stood in one of the openings at the back of the old Kop,who's voice sounded like he'd been eating gravel laced with glass,and a skin full of ale.Maybe it was the same bloke on John Street or just someone who also shouted it...wasn't there someone who did the Tarzan cry from John Street aswell.
Also..the WABAW was used a lot by Blades back in the day,but seems to have died out...not saying Wendy didn't use their version aswell,but definately used by Blades at one time.

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

Charlton became manager at the Sty in 1977. Unlikely anyone would wait two plus years to think that up. Used well before 1979 as has been said. Blades older than me were always using it.

Perhaps it was necessary to explicitly refer to common usage rather than "thought up". I'm sure some individuals will have cursed the S6 lot as pigs once or twice in 1968, maybe 4 times in 1971, maybe twice in 1951 and three times while having a painful shit in the Brook school bogs after too many eggs in 1972, after all it's an obvious kind of insult to make to anyone - I've called my own sister a pig when behaving like a petulant child at the age of 5... No doubt lots of other epithets for them were used too.

But it didn't enter common and established use until that 79/80 season when we were both in the third division and evolved from references to Charlton, not to the club or fans originally.

As for it's progenation... Like most terrace culture long before the t'interweb, it no doubt took time for any reference to Charlton to become embedded into common use... maybe the guy (or gal) that first gave birth to the term did it within 23 seconds or less of Charlton being appointed their manager, maybe it took a bit longer because other terms of abuse for Charlton were used before that... after all, Charlton didn't exactly look like a pig did he, so it isn't a natural extrapolation of his features to come up with a pig reference instantly he was seen at Hillsborough. So it's actually more than likely that it took some time to arise rather than as soon as Charlton landed in S6.

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

I can remember the COYRAWW shout from the Kop MPF,certainly early 70's..maybe before.It was shouted from a bloke stood in one of the openings at the back of the old Kop,who's voice sounded like he'd been eating gravel laced with glass,and a skin full of ale.Maybe it was the same bloke on John Street or just someone who also shouted it...wasn't there someone who did the Tarzan cry from John Street aswell.
Also..the WABAW was used a lot by Blades back in the day,but seems to have died out...not saying Wendy didn't use their version aswell,but definately used by Blades at one time.

sounds like the same voice to me.....

My memory of hearing "We're all Blades aren't we?" was always when the shit was about to hit the fan, usually when a transit-van-full of us would find ourselves surrounded by a firm seeking to do us (the Handsworth Blades at the time were drinkers primarily, but one or two with armed services/NI experience added a bit of "confidence" to our group for such situations). It was a sort of "make sure we're all together" type of call and used in the hope of intimidating our would-be attackers. Rochdale, in the 4th with a bunch of bored Man City fans was one such situation that sticks in the mind... and it worked well.

 

[bricktop]

I eagerly await the next set of drivel those mentally deficient retards come up with next.

They seem to be fully conversant with the WAWAW crap, and managed to drag out a full 4 years of the Agent nonsense, so I'm waiting to see what half-witted doggerel is next.

Mind you given the poor average IQ of those lot, it may take them a long time to think of something new, and programme it in to their tiny, infantile minds.

 

[Mustela Putorius Furo]

I always thought that the endearing term "Pigs" came when someone added a snout & ears to the Fowl logo

During the 80/81 season on the way down to the 4th there was a fashion for easily made, self-printed badges... large white ones with whatever graphic you wanted on them or some sort of phrase.

One that stuck in the mind was: "John Matthews lays on more long balls than Joan Collins".

It was on those I first saw the pig's head replacing the owl's face with flying pig references. May well have been earlier though in line with the other pig references emerging as mentioned before.

I also remember the following season in the 4th - at Crewe Alex (legendary game)... I saw a kid had bought a proper wednesday jumper, but his G/F or mother had re-stitched the Owl's face to be a pigs head graphic. Looked great.