Pinching other clubs songs

[Thuck ma Baws]

Since seeing them on the box a few times recently I can't get this Palace song out of my head and I think its boss https://www.flickr.com/photos/paulwrightuk/12293334156/

I'm not saying we should, but if we did what oppo songs would you pinch?

 

[Diogenes the Cynic]

YNWA

 

[Muzumbu]

that alley alley alley oh song that Hibs sing

 

[Thuck ma Baws]

YNWA

To be fair, and I hate saying it, it's a really good footy anthem for a club. The fact that that lot use it to define everything they say and do and then when push comes to shove and a player asks to leave they can't get on TV burning his shirt fast enough just shows what complete thumbheads they are, but as a footy song it's pretty good.

 

[MJ1]

Most clubs songs are proper wool songs.

 

[Shipped]

To be fair, and I hate saying it, it's a really good footy anthem for a club.

I think YNWA and IAGOT accurately reflect the character of the two clubs in a way. YNWA is emotional and anthemic, I'll give it that. It's iconic and cinematic but it also feels overwrought, like an awful power ballad or an X-Factor montage. It's vibe is to try to wring every last bit of try-hard emotion out of a situation. IAGOT is more restrained and low key. It's traditional, civilized, rootsy. Sounds a bit out of date, a bit of a relic. Like an old working man's folk song from 70 years ago that seems a bit of an oddity when heard today in a different world.

 

[toffee matt]

Both liverpool anthems were originally celtic songs, celtic also sing grand old team

 

[ijjysmith]

The Sheffield United 'Annie's Song' one. But with the lyrics changed to suit us.

 

[allen]

I cannot see anything redeeming about You'll Never Walk Alone. It's an awful bore.

 

[degsy]

We don't sing that many of our own so why pinch anybody elses

 

[ste d' indica]

To be fair, and I hate saying it, it's a really good footy anthem for a club. The fact that that lot use it to define everything they say and do and then when push comes to shove and a player asks to leave they can't get on TV burning his shirt fast enough just shows what complete thumbheads they are, but as a footy song it's pretty good.

Song itself is a decent enough tune I suppose, don't like it myself. But as a club song it's dreadful. I know it's seen as an uplifting anthem but I think its dreary, solemn, reverential. I go the footie to enjoy myself, that's why I love GOT, right jolly little tune that unites club and fans in it's opening line, acknowledges why we're all there and then farts on yer rivals. YAWN says nowt about togger to me and its miserable as root canal. The fact that its sung by a "choir" says it all, quasi-religious cobblers sung by conformists desperate for a life beyond their own.

Edit: sorry, went off on one a bit there.

 

[ijjysmith]

We don't sing that many of our own so why pinch anybody elses

Well you've sort of answered yourself there.

 

[Jxg]

I cannot see anything redeeming about You'll Never Walk Alone. It's an awful bore.

But it's so romantic and makes you want to cheer Liverpool on if you're a neutral!


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No?

 

[bluesteak]

To be fair, and I hate saying it, it's a really good footy anthem for a club. The fact that that lot use it to define everything they say and do and then when push comes to shove and a player asks to leave they can't get on TV burning his shirt fast enough just shows what complete thumbheads they are, but as a footy song it's pretty good.

Just for your info lids,YNWA was first sung by the mancs after the Munich air disaster,the [Poor language removed] stole it from them.

 

[Khalekan]

Both liverpool anthems were originally celtic songs, celtic also sing grand old team

Spurs sing it too for some reason.

The song was originally sung by the now defunct Belfast Celtic in the 1920s.