'Memries' Weird, Wonderful and Bizarre

[Jon Bon II]

'Tracksuit from Matalan', sung at the Palace keeper who always wore those jogging bottoms, absolutely cracked me up as well.

 

[BushBlade]

Loftus Road, few years ago. QPR are playing towards their kop. Their keeper, Lee Camp is in front of the away end. This bloke near me keeps shouting “Lee, Lee”, like he knew him. Eventually Lee turns round to see who’s shouting him. Bloke goes “fuck off”.

 

[Isar]

In the 70s on the Kop singing Allez Rouge and waving small Union Jack flags, not sure what that was about.

 

[Rooks]

Another Grimsby moment, five fat jellyfish sitting on a rock and one fell off. Ohhhhhh on and on ad infinitum.
Perhaps you had to be there.

I can remember everybody singing this in Rosies Bar at Brighton at the last game of the season in 1984 or 1985 ?

Although the jelly fish were blind, not fat.

The last one got back on again !!!!!!!!! Jelly Fish Jelly Fish Jelly Fish.

 

[Pollingtonblade]

"Hearrrrrtttttbeat"

 

[Vikkster]

Loonies. Loonies.

you lone colony you

 

[Ted Danson]

Flinders licks windows, he licks them all day...

 

[Basing Blade]

"Bring on the dustbin" Repeat. For when an opposition player is down.

 

[Edgar Allan Poo]

you lone colony you

It's not fair, combination of big thumbs and keyboard with a mind of it's own makes me go all Officer Crabtree.

 

[Northyorksblade]

I can remember everybody singing this in Rosies Bar at Brighton at the last game of the season in 1984 or 1985 ?

Although the jelly fish were blind, not fat.

The last one got back on again !!!!!!!!! Jelly Fish Jelly Fish Jelly Fish.

Knew I'd got it wrong, but it was a long time ago.

 

[Eyeball]

Great thread,but mekkin me feel owd.................

 

[Boxer Blade]

If I recall, and I would only be about 12-13 years old, it was the Old McDonald Had a Farm song referencing the pigs ......... E I E I O.

Then there was the Harry Roberts song ....... another dig at our boys in blue.

Harry Roberts is our friend is our friend....

 

[Boxer Blade]

A copper pulled me on the Shoreham and asked me what that song meant

Hope he was pretty

 

[Boxer Blade]

Wolves playing pigs on a Tuesday night, pigs singing I'm Wednesday till I die, I'm Wednesday till I die, wolves fans responded with, it's Wednesday tomorrow its Wednesday tomorrow

 

[Cheesebored]

We'll take more care of you, Porterfield, Porterfield , to British Airways fly the flag advert.

 

[Blade.com]

Early 70s. Ipswich away. Think it was a 2-1 win. Bill Dearden winner?.
Went on SUT Tours away bus maybe 2 coaches. Got to their ground Police pointed us to the kop said"Get in there". By kick off maybe 60/70 of us surrounded by police and their fans. We spent the whole match singing: "Beans on Toast" or "Dipswitch" . There must be someone who remembers this surely. Daftest one hit wonder of a chant ever.

 

[DaveBassettsgoneonholiday]

I might have already told a version of this on here but it goes in the "wonderful" (for me anyway) catagory.

Late 80's early 90's at The Lane.....
Kop (singing): "David Bassett's Red & White Army" ...... and repeat, and repeat, and repeat etc.
Dad (sat with me and little sis on John Street): ....laughing to himself
Sis: "What's Dad laughing at?"
Me: "No idea, try and ignore him"
Sis: "No really, he won't stop and no one else is laughing at anything"
Me: "What you laughing at Dad ?"
Dad: (in fits of laughter now) "He hasn't you know"
Me: "Eh ? Hasn't what ? And who ?"
Dad: "He hasn't. I can see him sat over there (in the South Stand)" .... and still laughing.
Me :"Who is ? What the bloody hell you on about"
Dad: "Bassett, he's sat half way up the seats in the South Stand. I can see him"
Me: "And ?"
Dad: "Well, The Kop are all singing 'David Bassett's gone on holiday' and he hasn't he's over there"
Me: (turning to sister) "Just pretend we're not with him and mention to Mum that his hearing's going when you get home"

 

[SheepdipBlade]

'Tracksuit from Matalan', sung at the Palace keeper who always wore those jogging bottoms, absolutely cracked me up as well.

If I remember rightly, that one was down to our very own Brownie. It even had the coppers at the back of the Kop joining in though they didn't join in with the follow up "Manager from Chester Zoo" to the famously handsome Iain Dowie. Keeper was Gabor Kirali, the Hungarian national keeps.

Brownie was also responsible for the "Shoes off for Robson out" in the car park. By the time I'd got my Alpinestar bike boots off, every other bugger had stopped singing!

 

[cahill]

Following on from the rather splendidly surreal new manager song thread. What are the weird, strange, bizarre and just downright crazy things you've heard from the stands during your time following The Blades. I'm talking chants, songs, ditties rather than stuff shouted by lone loonies.

Anyone remember, from the early 70s, the kop to and fro chant, "Celtic, Rangers!"? Never understood the what and why with that one. And I know he was lone wolf, but the "Tarzan" cry just before kick-off was a bizarre but quite funny one.

The " Celtic, Rangers", thing was a decade later surely, early 80s ?

 

[cahill]

To the tune of " Death of a Clown" by the Kinks.

" So let's all drink to the death of Alan Brown, ten thousand Wednesdayites, dead on the floor, they won't come on Shoreham street Kop any more "

 

[frechyblade]

What about ‘ooh it’s a corner, ooh it’s a corner, av a go’
Most ridiculous chant as we’ve always been poor at them.

 

[Jon Bon II]

When we went to Luton in the late 70's, the main stand to our left was divided into sections of different coloured seats. Cue the chant from the early arrived Blades; 'Swap Stand - der der, der-der-der der...' etc (rinse and repeat) to the theme tune of Multi-Coloured Swap Shop.

Also, during an FA Cup replay at Saltergate in the late 70's/early 80's, the Chesterfield goalkeeper had a nervous tick, which was quickly noticed and pounced upon by the massed Blades behind him in the away end, serenading him with the song 'Twitchy, Twitchy, give us a twitch, Twitchy, give us a twitch.' And every twitch and shudder thereafter was met with a huge cheer and raucous laughter. Not very nice, I know but that's the cruel terrace humour of football I'm afraid.

 

[georgethecat]

Lee Baxter, Burnley away.

 

[cahill]

To the tune of " Exerpt from a Teenage Opera" ( 1967)

" Alan Brown Alan Brown, is it true what Ritchie says, his iron lung, has broken down"

Iron Lungs were all the rage in those days. If no one else remembers this I'm living in an alternative Universe

 

[georgebernardshaw]

“I beg your pardon”...

 

[cahill]

Bertie Mee said to Don Revie have you heard of the North Bank Highbury, he said no, I don't think so, but I've heard of the Shoreham...agro !....Na nà NA na na na, na.....etc

 

[Bert]

Cup game away at Newcastle, United fans in two blocks, opposite corners of the ground.

Singing to Newcastle fans "You're surrounded, you're surrounded, you're surrounded."

 

[cahill]

" Tip toe through the Spion Kop, with your boots on, get your head kicked in, come tip toe through the Spion Kop, with me"

kudos to anyone who can remember the song this was taken from and the name of the American cult artist who sang it ?

I'm on a roll here.

 

[Silent Blade]

Early 70s. Ipswich away. Think it was a 2-1 win. Bill Dearden winner?.
Went on SUT Tours away bus maybe 2 coaches. Got to their ground Police pointed us to the kop said"Get in there". By kick off maybe 60/70 of us surrounded by police and their fans. We spent the whole match singing: "Beans on Toast" or "Dipswitch" . There must be someone who remembers this surely. Daftest one hit wonder of a chant ever.

Dearden never scored for us at Ipswich. He missed a penalty in the 0-0 draw in April 1972. Our next three league matches at Poertman Road were 1-1, 1-0 and 1-0. Woody scored in all three matches

 

[BushBlade]

" Tip toe through the Spion Kop, with your boots on, get your head kicked in, come tip toe through the Spion Kop, with me"

kudos to anyone who can remember the song this was taken from and the name of the American cult artist who sang it ?

I'm on a roll here.

Tiptoe Through the Tulips. Nick Lucas. He also recorded an early version of Singing in the Rain.