The "Pigs"

[BushBlade]

There was no social media (thank God) then so these types of things might be regionalised to a very small community of Blades.
It’s like the Greasy Chip butty song, I personally first heard it sang by 100’s of away fans in 1985.
But I suppose it’s possible a small group were singing it earlier but I never heard it.
Also there’s the rumour that a few Rotherham fans started singing the GCB song in the early 80’s but it obviously never caught on at Milmoor.

Possible? I've posted many times that I heard it in 1984 after Rotherham away. I'm not senile and I'm not lying. It happened.

 

[Blade56]

There was no local media so these types of things might be regionalised to a very small community of Blades.
It’s like the Greasy Chip butty song, I personally first heard it sang by 100’s of away fans in 1985.
But I suppose it’s possible a small group were singing it earlier but I never heard it.
Also there’s the rumour that a few Rotherham fans started singing the GCB song in the early 80’s but it obviously never caught on there.

When I was a kopite we used to sing "I'm forever blowing bubbles" as one of our regular chants. Not many younger Blades and wet spammers will recall or believe that one. We also sang you'll never walk alone, maybe Liverpool stole that one of us

 

[Blade56]

I'm not senile and I'm not lying. It happened.

No one said you're lying or that it didn't happen, it's the first bit we all question

 

[mosbolad]

When I was a kopite we used to sing "I'm forever blowing bubbles" as one of our regular chants. Not many younger Blades and wet spammers will recall or believe that one.

I believe you, I've sung it!

Then like the Wensdy they'll fade and die,
Tottenham's always running,
..............(Arsenal?) running too,
................always running,
running after you,
UNITED - UNITED - UNITED (repeat till fade).

Help me fill in the blanks Blade56

 

[Grappler]

I believe you, I've sung it!

Then like the Wensdy they'll fade and die,
Tottenham's always running,
..............(Arsenal?) running too,
................always running,
running after you,
UNITED - UNITED - UNITED (repeat till fade).

Help me fill in the blanks Blade56

The last bit was "United's always running, running after you, UNITED (clap, clap, clap), etc.

 

[Grappler]

When I was a kopite we used to sing "I'm forever blowing bubbles" as one of our regular chants. Not many younger Blades and wet spammers will recall or believe that one. We also sang you'll never walk alone, maybe Liverpool stole that one of us

As a lad, I remember us altering that at the Lane, and we sang (to the opposition fans)

"Walk on, walk on, with hope, in your arse, and you'll never walk again, you'll never walk again"

 

[pommpey]

As a lad, I remember us altering that at the Lane, and we sang (to the opposition fans)

"Walk on, walk on, with hope, in your arse, and you'll never walk again, you'll never walk again"

Which is exactly why my dad and sisters wouldn't relay the lyrics to me!

Then there was:

"Walk on!" (clap-clap)
"Walk on!" (clap-clap)
"With hope!" (clap-clap)
"In your arse!" (clap-clap)
"And you'll ne-!" (clap-clap)
"-ver walk!" (clap-clap)
"Alone!" (clap-clap)
"You'll ne-!" (clap-clap)
"-ver walk!" (clap-clap)
"Alone!" (clap-clap)

Sounded ace!

pommpey

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Still maintain it was all around the time of Wednesday's new badge and the Save our Fowls campaign that we started to use the term,

I completely agree with you and this is how I remember drawing their badge in the mid 70's:

 

[ElephantBlade]

Wednesday fans take on this impossible to ever win argument. Some nice juicy lies on here

https://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/266746-when-did-owls-become-pigs/

Imagine being enough of a knob head to not eat bacon because of a footy team. LOOOOOOL.

 

[SteveBlade]

Other fans must think Sheffield football fans are mentally deficient.

 

[BLADES1988]

I once made, I mean found this to show my piggy friends

 

[Grappler]

Which is exactly why my dad and sisters wouldn't relay the lyrics to me!

Then there was:

"Walk on!" (clap-clap)
"Walk on!" (clap-clap)
"With hope!" (clap-clap)
"In your arse!" (clap-clap)
"And you'll ne-!" (clap-clap)
"-ver walk!" (clap-clap)
"Alone!" (clap-clap)
"You'll ne-!" (clap-clap)
"-ver walk!" (clap-clap)
"Alone!" (clap-clap)

Sounded ace!

pommpey

Yep, that's the pace it was sang at, and you need to change "Alone" to "Again", meaning that the Shoreham Republican Army were going to break your legs.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Imagine being enough of a knob head to not eat bacon because of a footy team. LOOOOOOL.

Bacon is good......

 

[GrayBlade]

Porktalk give this version: http://www.owlstalk.co.uk/forums/topic/157264-why-do-the-blades-call-us-pigs-seriously/
Sheffield Forum this (albit Pig, sorry Wednesday bias!): http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=220235
And our very own S24SU forum gave us this debate way back: http://www.s24su.com/forum/index.php?threads/the-original-pigs.18486/

And there's more

Maybe the best thing we can to is show him/her how to do a 'quick search online'?

 

[Silent Blade]

 

[BerksBlade]

I believe you, I've sung it!

Then like the Wensdy they'll fade and die,
Tottenham's always running,
..............(Arsenal?) running too,
................always running,
running after you,
UNITED - UNITED - UNITED (repeat till fade).

Help me fill in the blanks Blade56

Tottenham''s always running
Arsenal's running too
And when you come to Shoreham
We'll be after you!

 

[Isaw Joeshaw]

I completely agree with you and this is how I remember drawing their badge in the mid 70's:
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It started well before that.

In the late 60's I met Mrs. Joe ( for better or for worse ) and through her, some new friends who were all Blades.

As a result, I gave up my usual place on the kop and joined them on the John Street terrace.

I clearly remember that a youngish guy who stood near us used to wear a smart looking cap with a badge on it which read :-

" If pigs could fly , Hillsborough would be an airport "

 

[S64 Blade]

Imagine being enough of a knob head to not eat bacon because of a footy team. LOOOOOOL.

Being a knob is where herein lies the problem.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Tottenham''s always running
Arsenal's running too
And when you come to Shoreham
We'll be after you!

Last line was "you'll be running too".

 

[Sheffsteel]

I completely agree with you and this is how I remember drawing their badge in the mid 70's:
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That’s exactly how I remembered it too.
Also in the late 70’s and early you’d see the Owls badge graffitied on a wall, then a Blade would draw the snout, pigs ears and curly tail on their badge.

Would also see “OWLS” grafittid on walls and some Blade would draw in a “F” to make “FOWLS”.

 

[Sean Thornton]

Looks like his bloodline runs through the fan base right up to today. They all look like that.

 

[Sheffsteel]

Possible? I've posted many times that I heard it in 1984 after Rotherham away. I'm not senile and I'm not lying. It happened.

I believe you, although I was at the Rotherham match in 84, on the away end near the corner flag close to the toilets and I never heard it.

Although when a new song is composed, it can take months or even years before it becomes main stream.
Who ever composed that song didn’t hand out song sheets and there was no internet.
So it makes sense that it was sang by small groups well before it became our anthem sang en masses by all Blades.

 

[R&WStripedBlood]

I completely agree with you and this is how I remember drawing their badge in the mid 70's:
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This- When that badge came out a pig sprayed it on the John Street entrance to the kop and it got that make over.

 

[SW12 to S12 to S18]

I completely agree with you and this is how I remember drawing their badge in the mid 70's:
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Remember seeing that somewhere with Ozzie pig sprayed below it.

 

[GV Blade]

Ive always thought they were just called 'The Pigs' because the terminology suited them perfectly.