Ban this song!

[Sothall_Blade]

'We' re not going to Wembley, but we don't give a fuck cos the Blades are going up '
And how exactly can we go up without going to Wembley then?!

Agree but then we’re not “the greatest football team” either. Neither were “Ally’s Army” who sang the original version so it’s always been factually challenged.

 

[Jon Bon II]

This thread is a prime example of why the atmosphere is shit at the Lane.

Paper clappers anyone?

 

[Keef Chedwyn]

The song guys just stick with the first draft most of the time and it's very rare it makes any sense.

 

[Guesty]

And it was fucking AFTERNOON!

Early afternoon, no less.

 

[tomtheblade]

If only we could sing songs at a pace slower than that of an ADD-afflicted kid on speed, i'd be satisfied.

 

[Rusty view]

Not the hugest fan of the song, away from home at least it makes sense. Seems a little odd to sing it at home...of course we're here, it's a home game.

And if your not but are a ST holder you still get counted as if you were here.

 

[Maidenhead]

good job your precious ears were not there in the 70s
Just accept that it is how it is, always has been emotive and always will be.

Every board has it's dinosaurs.

I guess we'll just have to accept it.

 

[super_pig]

I was gonna post the same thing. And there's another song I have an issue with...
The Duffy song, Oh What a Night.
Why can't people just sing to the tune instead of shouting "OH WHAT A NIGHT" when it loops round again. It completely fucks it up and nobody can pick the tune back up. Fucking kids!

because noone knows the words??

 

[super_pig]

I won’t be going to Wembley.

yeah i say that every year mate

 

[super_pig]

'We' re not going to Wembley, but we don't give a fuck cos the Blades are going up '
And how exactly can we go up without going to Wembley then?!

isn't it 'we're not going to win the league'?
edit: heh. then read highfields post

 

[AlanWrightsShinyHead]

It does infuriate me that 90% of our songs seemingly must contain the word "F***" or similar.

I'd like to teach my 6 year old a few other than "United, United" or "We Love United We Do"

It even has to feature in the O'Connell one. I've convinced him that the words are "he will head it back" but he'll no doubt soon discover otherwise.

Appreciate you can't avoid things like the "wanker" chants at the ref (which fortunately sounds like a "Blackman" to a 6 year old!) but is it so difficult to come up with a family friendly chant that everyone can join in with?

Seems to be only over the last 4 or 5 years that it's got worse

 

[1973Blade]

It does infuriate me that 90% of our songs seemingly must contain the word "F***" or similar.

I'd like to teach my 6 year old a few other than "United, United" or "We Love United We Do"

It even has to feature in the O'Connell one. I've convinced him that the words are "he will head it back" but he'll no doubt soon discover otherwise.

Appreciate you can't avoid things like the "wanker" chants at the ref (which fortunately sounds like a "Blackman" to a 6 year old!) but is it so difficult to come up with a family friendly chant that everyone can join in with?

Seems to be only over the last 4 or 5 years that it's got worse

I used to like the 'We Are Bladesmen' chant to the tune of 'Sailing'.

 

[Ricky]

Let's just change literally every one of our chants to suit women and kids.

#ForgedInCourtesy

 

[SwissBlade]

yeah i say that every year mate

I hadn’t realised it but I’ve booked a race in Austria the following day, so thankfully like against Huddersfield I won’t be bothering

 

[super_pig]

I hadn’t realised it but I’ve booked a race in Austria the following day, so thankfully like against Huddersfield I won’t be bothering

ye of little faith. where in Austria??

 

[georgebernardshaw]

Let's just change literally every one of our chants to suit women and kids.

#ForgedInCourtesy

#transgendermaggots

 

[GuangzhouBlade]

Let's just change literally every one of our chants to suit women and kids.

#ForgedInCourtesy

Exactly, just because kids hear certain things doesn't mean they should or will repeat them. You can't shield them from bad language and other nasties forever but what you can do is make it clear what actions are appropriate and when its acceptable to use words and when its not. My dad made it clear from the off when I was 7/8 that if he heard me using certain words which I heard at the lane a fate worse than death would ensue. Yes I don't like to hear people drop the C bomb or effing this or effing that but shouting you fat bastard or wanker is hardly crime of the century its British football humour in so many ways. Fawlty Towers now has a warning at the beginning in case people become offended by "old style language". For those that haven't seen Ricky Gervais' Humanity on Netflix its brilliant and really puts this everyone being "offended" into context.

 

[FlamingLip]

A. Our fans are shit, don't ever sing, atmosphere is now dead
B. Songs aren't coherent / accurate
C. Our chants cause offense to parents
D. We chant too fast

At least we're consistent at whinging

 

[stringer]

His second name isn't 'Couttsy' either, or am I being too pedantic now?

Very true! And he wasn’t on a free from Derby. That song is the biggest lie of them all!

 

[Sean Thornton]

Let's just change literally every one of our chants to suit women and kids.

#ForgedInCourtesy

Outside of Bramall Lane and away ends we visit, the world is full of wickle bunny wabbits and kittens, sunshine lollipops and rainbows and no child ever gets punched in the kidneys or hears a naughty world.

Some of you have clearly never hung around an infant school playground. Err, like err, some people do, err, not that I know anyone like that you understand.

These kids are going to grow up moaning about leg room etc. That's no life for them.

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

I have to laugh at the indignation towards swearing in front of kids.

I guarantee that they are using profane language when their parents aren't in earshot. Yes, even little angelic Timmy.

Kids in our school were smoking and finger-banging by age 12, and that was 20 years ago.

 

[Sean Thornton]

I have to laugh at the indignation towards swearing in front of kids.

I guarantee that they are using profane language when their parents aren't in earshot. Yes, even little angelic Timmy.

Kids in our school were smoking and finger-banging by age 12, and that was 20 years ago.

If that's HH, add another 30.

 

[AlanWrightsShinyHead]

Let's just change literally every one of our chants to suit women and kids.

#ForgedInCourtesy

Exactly, just because kids hear certain things doesn't mean they should or will repeat them. You can't shield them from bad language and other nasties forever but what you can do is make it clear what actions are appropriate and when its acceptable to use words and when its not. My dad made it clear from the off when I was 7/8 that if he heard me using certain words which I heard at the lane a fate worse than death would ensue. Yes I don't like to hear people drop the C bomb or effing this or effing that but shouting you fat bastard or wanker is hardly crime of the century its British football humour in so many ways. Fawlty Towers now has a warning at the beginning in case people become offended by "old style language". For those that haven't seen Ricky Gervais' Humanity on Netflix its brilliant and really puts this everyone being "offended" into context.

Outside of Bramall Lane and away ends we visit, the world is full of wickle bunny wabbits and kittens, sunshine lollipops and rainbows and no child ever gets punched in the kidneys or hears a naughty world.

Some of you have clearly never hung around an infant school playground. Err, like err, some people do, err, not that I know anyone like that you understand.

These kids are going to grow up moaning about leg room etc. That's no life for them.

You've all missed my point completely.

It's nothing to do with people "now being offended by old style language" as it rarely featured in any of the chants that we're sung when I first started going to the lane in the late 90s.

I'm not naive enough to expect to be able to protect my child from these kind of things as he'll inevitably pick it all up as he gets older, but does that mean I should just encourage him to sing songs about him not giving a fuck? That John Fleck is hard as fuck? That Duffy scored and they were fucking shite? Because he'll hear it anyway?

I'm not saying the songs should be banned. But how often do you hear classic chants such as "We are bladesmen" or "No pig fans in town" or "hark now hear" or "falling in love with you" during a match these days? It's like they've been struck off because they're not aggressive enough and don't paint our fans in a dark enough light

 

[Working Class Hero]

While we're on the subject can I have a whinge at every moron who thinks its cool to shout "as you fckin well should do!", stopping every attempt at getting 'swinging a pig' going, dead in it's tracks?

That really really does my head in, it used to be a great song when it kept going over and over.

 

[Bashar Al Asaba]

If that's HH, add another 30.

Hinde House: The original "University of Life"

 

[FlamingLip]

You've all missed my point completely.

It's nothing to do with people "now being offended by old style language" as it rarely featured in any of the chants that we're sung when I first started going to the lane in the late 90s.

I'm not naive enough to expect to be able to protect my child from these kind of things as he'll inevitably pick it all up as he gets older, but does that mean I should just encourage him to sing songs about him not giving a fuck? That John Fleck is hard as fuck? That Duffy scored and they were fucking shite? Because he'll hear it anyway?

I'm not saying the songs should be banned. But how often do you hear classic chants such as "We are bladesmen" or "No pig fans in town" or "hark now hear" or "falling in love with you" during a match these days? It's like they've been struck off because they're not aggressive enough and don't paint our fans in a dark enough light

Start the preferable chants off then?

 

[Ricky]

I'm not saying the songs should be banned. But how often do you hear classic chants such as "We are bladesmen" or "No pig fans in town" or "hark now hear" or "falling in love with you" during a match these days? It's like they've been struck off because they're not aggressive enough and don't paint our fans in a dark enough light

I certainly see where you're coming from with that.

We have more than enough decent chants that are 'clean' that don't get sung anywhere near enough.

 

[Sean Thornton]

You've all missed my point completely.

It's nothing to do with people "now being offended by old style language" as it rarely featured in any of the chants that we're sung when I first started going to the lane in the late 90s.

I'm not naive enough to expect to be able to protect my child from these kind of things as he'll inevitably pick it all up as he gets older, but does that mean I should just encourage him to sing songs about him not giving a fuck? That John Fleck is hard as fuck? That Duffy scored and they were fucking shite? Because he'll hear it anyway?

I'm not saying the songs should be banned. But how often do you hear classic chants such as "We are bladesmen" or "No pig fans in town" or "hark now hear" or "falling in love with you" during a match these days? It's like they've been struck off because they're not aggressive enough and don't paint our fans in a dark enough light

I think the point we made was about them hearing it anyway, and probably using bad language themselves when no adults are around. Is anyone saying encourage them? I think the reality is most children sing along and miss out or at worst mime, the swear words.

 

[FlamingLip]

While we're on the subject can I have a whinge at every moron who thinks its cool to shout "as you fckin well should do!", stopping every attempt at getting 'swinging a pig' going, dead in it's tracks?

That really really does my head in, it used to be a great song when it kept going over and over.

That bit is added at the end of the song, can't ever remember it being sung on loop

 

[Sean Thornton]

Hinde House: The original "University of Life"

Life Polytechnic