Greasy Chip Butty

[Tony Currie]

Went to Millmoor quite a bit in the 80's, never heard it sung once.

Not that it matters - the song is now in the DNA of Sheffield United and is part of culture we expect everyone at the club to buy into. The likes of Chris, Billy and the staff personify this, it is an integral part of the teams identity and recent success.

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

Much like Liverpool fans didn’t write the lyrics to You’ll Never Walk Alone, we didn’t write the lyrics to Greasy Chip Butty.

Name those two anthems to anyone in football though and who do they think of?

It’s a proper football anthem and one of the best, if not THE best!

..and it’s our anthem, everyone sees it as our anthem and it will always be our anthem.

Some lesser clubs don’t have one, and it kills them.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

Who, where and when is interesting but irrelevant imo. The song was a catalyst it needed a collective pashun, history and a big fan base to give it traction to become modern day folk law.
The Greasy Chip Butty will forever be associated with our club. Unlike You’ll never Walk Alone (shared with Celtic), Hi Ho Silver Lining, I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles et al which were all pop songs adopted by fans not bespoke lyrics depicting a class and culture revolving around a community and football club.

I must admit I do like all those cheesy old songs specially written for a club and sung by the players/fans etc. Whisper this quietly but Blue is the colour and Marching on together are easily two of the best.

 

[bornablade]

Huddersfield was the worst one, capped it off, all those no-shows.

The Hull game, despite losing, was the first one I can remember when we actually turned up. Felt like a big moment as even though we lost, we didn’t disgrace ourselves.

We were pretty decent in 2003 against Arsenal. Still had to contend with the Gooners having a 12th man.

Poll in 2003 has been replaced by VAR in 2020.

 

[Booker4]

As others have said, if Terry Moran is annoyed a lot that we sing it, why didn't it catch on at Millmoor, and I can't imagine many people were amazed by a night out in Masborough either, but I may be doing Masborough a disservice there!

Well, sorry, Terry, ne'er mind, thanks for the song, we still like Rotherham and share a dislike of Wednesday and you play in a much better ground than Millmoor so its not all bad is it! Besides, had Rotherham sang the Greasy Chip Butty no one would know about it outside of Rotherham till this present day.

 

[YorkBlade]

If anyone missed it earlier:

BBC Radio Sheffield - BBC Radio Sheffield Special, Like a Greasy Chip Butty

Simon Thake looks at how a John Denver classic became the anthem for Sheffield United.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[pommpey]

Being honest, I have never seen Simmo's penalty. I was working overseas when the play off final game was on, and I was inbetween meetings so I only got updates as it went on. I knew we were winning that penalty shoot out and then had to disappear again, until 2 hours later when I finally found out the result. Gutted is an understatement as I had convinced myself that we had it in the bag. Amateur mistake after watching United all those years.

I was in a foul mood the rest of the day and could have cost my company a lot of money in hindsight despite trying to remain calm and professional at work. I was trying so hard not to tell everyone to 'go fuck themselves'.

So after getting home the match was quickly deleted from my Sky planner. I have had no intention ever since to watch those 'glorious' highlights and Simmo's penalty in my mind just gets higher and higher into the stratosphere every time I hear about that penalty kick! If I had looked out of the office window (I was in the far east) I probably could have seen it flying past ala Haley's comet.

Mate, as soon as it left Simmo's foot, I turned to my wife and granddaughter and said, 'Let's go.'

I didn't even see it clear the crossbar.

pommpey

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

Whilst I fully understand the humour to be gained from Simmo's outrageous miss , the reality is that others were far more culpable than him in respect of our failure to win the shootout .

He did his job by saving two of the first three penalties (the other going wide) but this massive advantage was frittered away by a powder puff effort from Matt Lowton and a failure to even hit the target by Lee Williamson and Andy Taylor .

They were the real culprits in one of the most sickening experiences I've had as a Blades fan and it goes without saying , there have been a few of those .

 

[tyke1889]

It appears that Dulwich Hamlet have adopted the GCB, dodgy lyrics mind

 

[biggiesablade]

It appears that Dulwich Hamlet have adopted the GCB, dodgy lyrics mind View attachment 145809

Iv just been sick a little in my mouth

 

[tyke1889]

My partner's daughter who's a Miller, but follows DH as she lives in London, refuses to sing it.

 

[Panini]

Incredible how many think the last line is "thrill".

The clue is in the first line FFS!

 

[tyke1889]

Incredible how many think the last line is "thrill".

The clue is in the first line FFS!

Exactly what I told her, her answer was - Don't care cos I refuse to sing it anyway