Like a night out in Rotherham

[coaxingstar71]

Porktalk has now picked up on it. And we're the 2nd team in Sheffield. View attachment 90111

How desperate are they? Clinging onto anything now.

 

[coaxingstar71]

So what, Leeds nicked 'Ooh Aah' (Bob Book-Aah) from us for Eric Cantona and claimed it as their own.

 

[CarlMcBlade]

But surely “ a night out in Rotherham“ is a derogatory term?

 

[BanderSerge]

Whist I agree with the overall sentiment , that's probably the worst comparison you could possibly have made .

Most people with even a smattering of musical appreciation were familiar with the beautiful and moving ballad ' I will always love you ' long before Whitney Houston came along , screamed her way through it and ripped the heart and soul out of it .

Dolly Parton’s version is better than Whitney’s? Really? Screamed her way through it and ripped the heart and soul out of it?!!!! Wow. That’s some statement.

 

[wizadry]

Whatever it's origins , the GCB song is now irrevocably associated with the mighty Blades and always will be .

It is the envy of football fans across the country and beyond and rightly so . The other songs mentioned in the article don't bear comparison with it , since they are merely word for word renditions of old songs whose lyrics have no relevance to the culture or traditions of the cities in which they are sung .

GCB has both of these in spades and is by some measure the most creative and uplifting anthem in football , and will continue to be so for a very long time .

Not only that but there’s nowhere in the land that could make it sound as good as we do even if they tried, the silly twats!

 

[bornablade]

Dolly Parton’s version is better than Whitney’s? Really? Screamed her way through it and ripped the heart and soul out of it?!!!! Wow. That’s some statement.

To keep it relevant to the thread - Dolly Parton has links to Rotherham with her Imagination Library scheme.

 

[Sheffsteel]

I’m in my mid 50’s and went to loads of games in the 80’s.

I clearly remember the time I first heard the Greasy Chip butty song. It was the first game of the season away at Stoke (Victoria Ground) in the 84-85 season....we won 3-1 and their best player was the winger Chamberlain...the dad of Oxlade-Chamberlain.

I even remember thinking....good song....but it’ll never catch on because it’s too long and too many words to remember.
The song caught on that season and has been sung every game since.

It was ”gallon of magnet” and “come fill me again” in the mid 80’s
first heard it being called “gallon of maggots” in the late 80’s....think I saw a promotion T shirt with that line
and “come thrill me again”? Does anyone actually sing that?

I suppose it’s possible it was sang earlier but I never heard it...so it was never sang en masse before the mid 80’s.

 

[wizadry]

AlanLee , whilst you’re on here can you tell you’re scummy lot who our fans donated quite a chunk of money too to be a bit more appreciative in future. It’s not “your” song and your fans were a set of twats regarding comments in our game at home the other season, stay on the pig forum, I reckon you’ll be at home on there.

 

[Alf Tuppers Shorts]

Well I still stick to my original and first hearing of it April 1982 Bournemouth at home , it was group of lads at the back of the Kop and they where just coming up with different lines and I can remember it being Maggots , at the time I thought who sings about maggots at football matches. Don’t know why It sticks in my memory but it does. April 1982.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Well I still stick to my original and first hearing of it April 1982 Bournemouth at home , it was group of lads at the back of the Kop and they where just coming up with different lines and I can remember it being Maggots , at the time I thought who sings about maggots at football matches. Don’t know why It sticks in my memory but it does. April 1982.

I hardly ever went on the Kop...I was always stood on the terrace bit near the away end (St Johns corner)
So unless it was a few 1000 singing I wouldn’t have heard the song sang by the Kop.
and I didn’t start going to away matches regularly until 84.

So its very possible it was sung earlier but I never noticed.

We played Rotherham away...remember the last minute Bob Adkins goal...think it was 84.
The Rotherham fans certainly weren’t singing it then.

 

[Bearlie]

Great story

 

[Alf Tuppers Shorts]

I hardly ever went on the Kop...I was always stood on the terrace bit near the away end (St Johns corner)
So unless it was a few 1000 singing I wouldn’t have heard the song sang by the Kop.
and I didn’t start going to away matches regularly until 84.

So its very possible it was sung earlier but I never noticed.

We played Rotherham away...remember the last minute Bob Adkins goal...think it was 84.
The Rotherham fans certainly weren’t singing it then.

Sorry back of the kop was meant to be the concourse not inside. Don’t think anyone else in the kop started singing it so don’t know exactly when it actually took off. But definitely that was when the first seed was planted.

 

[AlanLee]

I love how your lot have been singing "gallon of maggots" Why the hell would a gallon of maggots fill up your senses?

Anyway, it's obviously touched a nerve for a few of you learning that we were singing this on the Tivoli years before SU.

Just don't try nicking our rendition of Cliff Richard's "Batchelor Boy" either. UTM

 

[Roygbiv]

I don't know if Rotherham sang it first or not but I do like that it's been confirmed now because one bloke said he wrote it. That's it. Case closed.

 

[Roygbiv]

Porktalk has now picked up on it. And we're the 2nd team in Sheffield. View attachment 90111

I hope they use that as their new thread title about us. It will be them posting about us being in a league above them in a thread called "Sheffield's 2nd team"

 

[FATTYFOULKE]

I love how your lot have been singing "gallon of maggots" Why the hell would a gallon of maggots fill up your senses?

Anyway, it's obviously touched a nerve for a few of you learning that we were singing this on the Tivoli years before SU.

Just don't try nicking our rendition of Cliff Richard's "Batchelor Boy" either. UTM

Can’t speak for everybody but everyone I know sings gallon of magnet.

Singing it on the Tivoli?? All that article says is that someone claims to have penned the words in a Rotherham pub. No-ones ever heard you lot sing it, certainly not before we made it is what it is today.

End of the day like it or not the whole football world sees it as Sheffield United’s anthem. No-one gives a toss how it originated.

 

[The Crab]

How desperate are they? Clinging onto anything now.

Including their grip on reality

 

[YouFUMS]

I associate first hearing this sang, with the game that Keith Edwards scored that peach of a goal at the kop end. The one where he did the Pele step-over to send the goalie the wrong way. Might have been against Port vale, but not sure. I used to stand on the JS terrace with my mates, goading the away fans. Got to be around 83/84

 

[S64 Blade]

My dad (a Rotherham Blade) says he first heard it from Rotherham fans too. As others have said, we 'copied' it and made it our own and now we are the only club who sings it (at least en-masse).

 

[Dublinblade]

we are the only club who sings it (at least en-masse).

I stand to be corrected on this but dont Grimbsy sing a version too regularly ?

 

[CrookesBlade]

I thought it was a good listen. Generally steered the right side of being twee/cringeworthy. It played out like a true crime podcast tracking the origins back to a pub in Rotherham.

Probably a few exaggerations/embellishments along the way but a bit of fun nonetheless. We don't mind it was sung by a small group of Millers first (probably), they don't mind. The song has followed the path of many Blades youngsters loaned out to Rotherham for some first team experience. The only people who do mind are internet pig fans who've been starved of anything to enjoy since precisely May 2016.

A couple of observations:

• Gary Sinclair sounds unrecognisable when he's not doing the Ray-Von persona.
• St Helens "like a good sniff of glue" is superior to 'good pinch of snuff'.
• Other than at the start of each half its not often heard during games as much any more, home or away. Almost like its 'too obvious'.

 

[S64 Blade]

I stand to be corrected on this but dont Grimbsy sing a version too regularly ?

Not sure if they sing it regularly - I thought it was similar to Rotherham. I've no idea though to be honest!

 

[Sheffsteel]

Not sure if they sing it regularly - I thought it was similar to Rotherham. I've no idea though to be honest!

Rotherham stopped singing it decades about....the what the Millers call the “gallon of magnet“ song never caught on properly at Millmoor.
whereas a few years ago a Grimsby fan told me they still occasionslly sing it at Blundell Park.

 

[Bert]

Rotherham stopped singing it decades about....the what the Millers call the “gallon of magnet“ song never caught on properly at Millmoor.
whereas a few years ago a Grimsby fan told me they still occasionslly sing it at Blundell Park.

The also sing it at Boston United.

Bert thinks it's a crap dirge anyway.

 

[Silent Blade]

I associate first hearing this sang, with the game that Keith Edwards scored that peach of a goal at the kop end. The one where he did the Pele step-over to send the goalie the wrong way. Might have been against Port vale, but not sure. I used to stand on the JS terrace with my mates, goading the away fans. Got to be around 83/84

Bristol Rovers in April 1984

 

[Woodys Thunderbolt]

Robbie Williams nicked ‘Angels’ off a bloke in Ireland, didn’t do him any harm did it.

 

[YouFUMS]

Bristol Rovers in April 1984

Cheers Silent...What a goal that was. If anyone can find video of it, I'd love to see it again.
So...in April 1984, Blades were singing the GCB song

 

[BettingBlade]

Robbie Williams nicked ‘Angels’ off a bloke in Ireland, didn’t do him any harm did it.

Apparently not true, he said that they just paid him off out of court to shut him up.

 

[Silent Blade]

Cheers Silent...What a goal that was. If anyone can find video of it, I'd love to see it again.
So...in April 1984, Blades were singing the GCB song

Unfortunately the match wasnt televised

 

[sitwell]

It's what we've been saying for years but you never believed us.
So some perspective from a Rotherham fan who's favourite song used to be this before you murdered it.
I'm sure older fans than me will add to the history but my teenage years were through the nineties and I had a season ticket on the Tivoli from 94. We'd changed the lyrics already slightly by then from the original song penned on the wall of the Mail Coach.

It was sang throughout every match and did take off, albeit we never had the help of a booming tannoy system. The lyrics we sang in the 90s and 00s were...

You damage my senses
Like a gallon of Magnet
Like a night out

Did you sing it at Don valley ? All 3 of you ,bet that went down a storm.
Fucking toytown.
Only good thing to come out of Rotherham were drunken clapped up dee dars after a 15 quid drink all you can night at the Tivoli.