Story behind GCB song ?

[Jehovah]

I sit on the south stand, so I've never heard it.

 

[Bladebri]

http://theballisround.co.uk/2014/01/28/best-song-ever/

Good read

 

[MobileBlade]

It was sung well before 1985. In the late 70’s early 80’s the Rotherham (Parkgate) Blades used to travel with us, sometimes they’d have a full coach and meet up with us. It was deffo them who started it., the original line was,

“Like a night out in Bournemouth.” We played Bournemouth in 1981, and I don’t think we’d played them in years, I thought it was earlier, but it must have been after 81, if it was our song, I’ve got a feeling the Rotherham Blades ‘Borrowed’ it.

That was in the old 4th Division on 28th November and we drew 0-0. First time we have ever played them. I was at that game and cannot remember that much about it or it being sung!

*Uninteresting fact about Bournemouth is that both games that season finished 0-0. We were both promoted and when we played them again in Sept 82 at their place that also finished 0-0.

 

[Bob Socks]

That was in the old 4th Division on 28th November and we drew 0-0. First time we have ever played them. I was at that game and cannot remember that much about it or it being sung!

*Uninteresting fact about Bournemouth is that both games that season finished 0-0. We were both promoted and when we played them again in Sept 82 at their place that also finished 0-0.

If it was our song then, the night out in Bournemouth must have been after the match, unless it was the Friday night.

 

[Diamondlife]

"A night out in Rotherham" £15 buys you a plastic cup that you re-fill all night with copious amounts of alcohol in the Tivoli Club , you were guaranteed a shag with a 40+ year old women who looked 60 +, who had wrongly spelt tattoos (before they were fashionable), none of her own teeth and the place had a carpet that you walked on like you were walking on the moon, the toilets had passed out people for a floor covering and there were always people scrapping. Good nights actually but not sure it does the song justice

 

[Robby Blade]

"A night out in Rotherham" £15 buys you a plastic cup that you re-fill all night with copious amounts of alcohol in the Tivoli Club , you were guaranteed a shag with a 40+ year old women who looked 60 +, who had wrongly spelt tattoos (before they were fashionable), none of her own teeth and the place had a carpet that you walked on like you were walking on the moon, the toilets had passed out people for a floor covering and there were always people scrapping. Good nights actually but not sure it does the song justice

Ah, happy days.

 

[SwissBlade]

I sit on the south stand, so I've never heard it.

Sing up south stand!

 

[The_Green_Man]

The "night out in Rotherham" might have appeared somewhere along the line however the song didn't originate there.

The song actually came about on the train to an away game around the time mentioned above. A group of mainly Norfolk Park / East Bank blades began to put together some song lyrics with the help of some others and so it began. I know this because a bloke up on the Norfolk Park called Alan told me he played a part in it which I rubbished and since talking to others the second it has true.

 

[SUFC Guy]

I’ve got a T shirt at home which I bought from the bloke on the corner of Bramall Lane and John Street to commemorate the 2-0 “Sunday pig roast” on November 17th 1992, I bought it at the very next home game after the win. On the back it has the lyrics to the GCB (with Maggots not Magnet)

So the song undoubtedly goes back further than 1992.

Wish i still had my T-shirt I can remember as a passenger on the M1 with a work mate, a car full of wendies over took us but not before we caught them up and my t-shirt was off my back and pressed nicely against the window and a very friendly one fingered salute accompanied it

A great era to be a blade!

 

[zablade]

First time I really remember it was during the end of the Billy Mcewan era, so would be around 87 / 88.

Especially remember it being sung really loud a in a relegation decider under Bassett at Huddersfield in 1988 which we won to "secure" a place in the relegation play offs. We then proceeded to lose the play off, naturally.

 

[Sheffsteel]

I was a regular at virtually every home game in the 80's and many away games too.

I have a weirdly excellent memory and remember clearly the 1st time I heard it sang.

It was our first match of the season away to Stoke, think it was 1984 when we'd just got promoted from Div 3 to Div 2.

Remember thinking there was too many words to remember and it would never catch on but we sang it at every away game I attended that season and it gradually became common at home too.

We've sang it virtually every match since that 1984-85 season.

Some say we sang it before but if we did it was only a small group and I can't ever remember us singing it en masse before August 1984.

 

[BladeFisher]

The provenance of the song is unknown but its origin is often claimed by Sheffield Unitedsupporters.[1] It has been claimed it was first sung by the Blades during Sheffield United's first match of the 1985-86 season in Division 2. This was a Blades 3-1 away win at Stoke City's Victoria Ground on 17 August 1985. Fans of Rotherham United F.C. have also claimed that the song originated with them.[2]

Wikipedia.

I was there. Lovely summers day and we drove HQ branch over with National Travel East whose depot was on Charlotte Road ex SUT I believe.

 

[BladeFisher]

I first heard GCB chant at Oldham early part of 84/85 season (2-2 if memory serves near riot when Cockerill and Bolton got sent off... George Tyson might have been ref). I have heard Blades say they heard it in at least the season before!

Yep another one I was at. Drove down from Durham for that one in my mini 25. Amazing game. There was a near riot. Tyson was an arse.