The best chant I’ve ever heard was for Andy Goram in the 90’s. We all know the “there’s only one Messi/Ronaldo/whoever”. But then came Andy Goram who was diagnosed with schizophrenia so of course along came “there’s only 2 Andy Goram’s”
Do they have capo’s in England who either hits a drum a certain way or shouts the first line through a megaphone or whatever really. We have them here in the Netherlands
Most likely due to the UK tradition of gently rubbing the son's and daughters to get them to have a thicker skin so that they can cope with the daily ribbing we all had and generations will always have As the saying goes Stick and stone can break your bones but words can never hurt you.
was spurs away at liverpool, we rarely ever beat them, probably like 3 maybe 4 times in the last 10 years, we play them a minimum of 2 times a season. that specific game that chant was sung we were losing 4-0
Its a pretty common 1 for any team's fans when playing away from home and are losing without scoring a goal. Makes the sometimes very long trips a little bit better than going home after losing 4-0 away
my favourite chant is to this tune when my team is on a run of defeats then we take the lead in an away game "how s**t must you be? we're winning away!"
I was watching Sheffield Wednesday at Barnsley one year - the Wednesday goalie had just divorced his wife. The Barnsley fans started sing "Did she take it up the a***?" and the Wednesday goalie nodded and gave them a thumbs up.
I remember a match between Germany and Holland a few years ago and the Dutch sang, “Bring back the bicycle of my grandmother.” This refers to German soldiers in WW2 who stole the bicycles when they invaded Holland.
A common German counter to a well-known rock song:"There comes a time...wohoo...when the levels rise again" referencing the devastating floods decades ago.
Towards the end of last season I was in the away end at Gillingham with Leyton Orient. It was a midweek evening match, so floodlit. Towards the end of the second half the power went out. We sang "You can't pay your bill, you can't pay your bill, you pikey bastards, you can't pay your bill" and "you need a quid for the meter, you need a quid for the meter, quid for the meter". Totally spontaneous because you can't prepare for things like that. Another favourite was Walsall fans when a player from Forest Green Rovers, known for having the only completely vegan stadium in tbe world, fell face first on the putch and tbe Walsall fans sang "He's eating our grass, he's eating our grass, that vegan bastard, he's eating our grass".
Excellent stuff. When you go to away games up in Yorkshire do you ever sing that "in your Northern slums" song (the version of which I first heard had several different verses)? Or "Compo* was your father"? *from Last of the Summer Wine
@@dangerousbeans8067 No real Brit would touch any of the tasteless American piss. What I found funny about the whole Bud Light thing was that the drop in sales was a self-own as we now know what these self-absorbed, self-proclaimed, "tough guys" and alpha males drink. 😂
Man U fans had a memorable one about Ji-Sung Park when he was playing for them: "Park, Park, wherever you may be, you eat dogs in your own country, but it could be worse, you could be scouse, eating rats in your council house"
Heard Gary Neville tell a story once about when he was warming up and a bunch of away fans starting singing "If the Neville's can play for England, so can I!", at which point Paul Scholes, Neville's team mate started singing along as well.... 😂😂😂
@@Primaate Yes well aware you Aussie didn't fall very far from the tree remember the mother land rejected U..... You criminals Ur never be welcomed back without a prison escorts
Banter.... an excuse for being thick and ignorant and offensive. And when you are, pass it off as banter to make the other person feel stupid. Yeah the english way alright.
European football fans always have great chants and the English are easily the best at it. British banter in general is just amazing, everyone loves british humor here in Sweden 😂
I'm English and these aren't average English sports fans. Football fans are quite common and thuggish. If you went to see tennis or cricket you wouldn't hear anything like this as the fans are better educated.
Adam Johnson, a former Sunderland and Manchester City player. He was convicted for sexual conduct with a minor (I think the one in question was 15 at that time). In the clips it is supporters of Newcastle that sing. Newcastle and Sunderland are archrivals and Johnson was Sunderland's best player and biggest star. Jimmy Savil was UK's Bill Cosby both in celeberty ratings and what he did. Just that his conducts was far, far worse. After his death his victims started to come forth and it turned out he had been sexual abusing kids, teenagers and young women for decades. This happened while people with power where protecting him. Savil is genuinely one of the most vile and evil people ever lived.
Saville wasn't "outed" until after he died. Enough people knew and it's basically known that he made it clear that he knew who most of the other celebrity perverts were and he would take them all down with him in a scandal that the entertainment industry would never recover from.
Tomorrow afternoon I'll be at Kenilworth Road watching Luton play Man U. It's a certainty that someone, somewhere in the home crowd, will start "You'll never sing that, you'll never say that, Conference Champions, you'll never sing that", referring to the Hatters' progression from non-league to the Prem.
Growing up in the UK you completely brutalise each other with insults constantly but it basically means someone likes you if you know them well and they do this. The Goalkeeper who they were calling fatty the fans will respect him for being a good sport and giving them a clap at the end!
I was logging in, in an American sports bar in Belgium, when I heard a scouse accent "fakin ell someone died in here or what?" ( it stunk like an explosion in a thunderbox before I got there). I flushed and came out of the cubicle "Yeah sorry bout that lads" "wheeey here he is the dirty cnut". I can honestly say I never felt more proud to be British than being insulted by a stranger in a pub toilet.
I am English and was laughing so loud, been to hundreds of football matches and what you see is accepted and lauded, you pay to get in, and you have a 100% right to state your opinion and us brits have a very good sense of humour, and use it every time, great video.
Not if the fa have owt to say, they want us to become American and spend 40 mins chanting defense. They put ished leeds fans for responding to brighton fans "you're doing down with the palace" by chanting "you're going down on your boyfriends". Free speech at football may not be around much longer
@@kiwoo69Yeah, but even we have a ranking system. Londoners can't insult anyone, Northerners are pretty good, the Welsh have their moments... But the fucking Scots... They take it to another level. 😂
Societal norms are left at the turnstile at football. It's like connecting to a hive mind intent on being a bit of a dick, and it's brilliant. The amount of dads on the way out at the end telling their kids "Don't tell your mum we were calling them c***s"
one of my exs kids played for bristol city youth team went to a match once an everyone started chanting whos the wank*r in the black (the ref) he joined then looked at me thinkin i was gunna tell him off all i said was dont say it at home lol
IM an American...born and raised, but I worked in England few a couple years. Thats when I was introduced to "chants". Their spirits are AMAZING and seem to be so united with each other. They chant in the bars, chant walking to the next bar...Its just a wonderful feeling to be around. ...and they do make them up on the spot, but some of the chants are preserved and stay the same. Also each neighborhood and futball team has their very own chant
British humour is brutal. To the point that if someone you know, even family, is nice to you for longer than a minute, you start to get suspicious 😂😂😂😂
We are the same way in some places in the US. Growing up in a farming town it's the same. The guys greet each other with insults and/or punching.@@cheekynandos5056
Many years ago my hubby went to an away game and then waited on the railway platform with fellow fans for their train home. On the opposite platform was a man in a long Macintosh coat. All the fans sung "Who's the flasher in the mac?" at him until he'd had enough and went into the waiting room. When he came back out they started doing it again! Poor bloke! 😂😂😂😂😂
I was at a match where a fan proposed to his girlfriend at half time and the whole crowd were singing '"You don't know what you're doing" It's a chant usually reserved for the match officials when they make a dodgy decision.
I love the spontaneity of our chanting and the piss taking. We don't need drums, someone with a mic or another form of coordination, we just need our passion for our team coupled with our brilliant sense of humour.
I love English football, I've been to two games while in England and the atmosphere and passion is unmatched here in the states. It's a very addictive experience.
Adam Johnson was a footballer who got sent to jail for messing with little kiddies. I’m so proud to be an English football fan, watching you enjoying our chants. 😂😂 Great video man. A lot of lower league clubs featured.
@davidbeeson9408 NOT QUITE u bellcheese!! He was convicted of kissing and touching a 15 year old girl who he thought was 18. Still got done for it though. Served 3 years of a 6 year sentence and put on the sex offenders register. The absolute lies and bollox of the statement above is a real worry. Is he messing around with a teenage girl who was only 1 year below the legal limit and acting like she was 18, YES!. Is he a pedo who was messing around with children, NO.
You're kind of right with the Sky TV chant. They're the TV company with the broadcast rights for the league. So in this case they're interviewing people after the game. The reason people are chanting at them is because they're ridiculously overpriced and they move kick off dates and times often at short notice which means some fans, especially travelling away fans can't get to games.
If you get heckled for your weight when you're here, as an English man I can confirm, the best course of action is whip out a pint can of beer....stronger the better, down it in one and cheer like you've won the world cup. .... Acceptance will then be yours.
Stopped me in my tracks... your laughter was spontaneously attractive 😂😂😂 chuckling at your comments. The lads will try to explain some of the lyrics, hilarious lyrics. 😂 😂😂😂
This is what it was like going to an English comprehensive school in the 70s/80s and 90s.😂 you develop a thick skin and a sense of humour very very quickly 😂
The keeper getting the piss taken out of him, then turns around and gives them a wave... followed by appreciation by the crowd. Its all meant in jest so footy fans appreciate when they laugh along too. Its part of the culture here. Theres also a great story about the Navy Seals and SAS in Iraq together for context of British humour. Outside the Seals barracks they put up a sign which read something like "second to no-one", so the SAS got a piece of cardboard and wrote "no-one" on it and put it above their barracks. Funny little micky taking things is something that seems to just be part of our way of life here, but its meant in a friendly, inclusive manner.
on a slightly more serious note - but it relates and shows the brits ironic humour, in WW2 a group of american soldiers were coming in behind the english who were pinned down due to machine gun nests pointing right at them, the americans radio'd through to see if they needed help, the brits being in the usual ironic humourous way, replied "no its fine, no problems here" the americans left them stuck there for a few hours before they realised, they completely missed the irony in the brits humour... irony, none do it as well as the brits! lol
@@jakewright4394 Pretty sure the story is from the Korean War and the British said they were "in a bit of a sitcky" or something like that. So Americans did understand that they were going through something but thought that it was a relatively minor thing the Brits could handle, while they were actually being overran by Chinese.
It was a SAS/SEALS training exercise... The SEALS got to the finishing camp first, and placed a sign saying "Second to none" SAS arrived later while Americans were asleep and placed their sign saying "None" P.s SAS actually won, because the SEALS missed several check points in the exercise, thinking because they were first across the finishing line they were Victorious... thay infact failed 😎
This is a uk centric thing. It’s a badge of honour He’s blonde, he’s quick, his names a porno flick…. Emmanuelle… Still one of the best chants I’ve ever heard
The chants often follow the same patterns. Everyone learns these songs and patterns over years of going to watch your team. So when someone throws and new name into the same old structure, everyone can easily adapt what they know to follow the new suggestions. Often started by one loud voice in the crowd
There was a chant against a Fulham striker, Bobby Zamora- to the tune of 'Thats amora'' by Dean Martin. " When you're sat in row zed, and the ball hits your head, that's Zamora". And in 1986, two players by the name of Gary Stevens played for England. To the tune of "Guantanamera"- ""Two Gary Stevens! There's only two Gary Stevens!" etc
Thats English football for you, especially at lower levels when the away fans are 3/4 metre away giving you shit but notice how he clapped at end and the fans clapped him also, he took alot of shit but didn't lose it and the away fans respect him for that
I was once in a dark alley with 10 or so drunk footie fans coming the other way. I guess they noticed my discomfort and I was treated to an unexpected chorus of: “and we’ll all go up the Swindon with our willies hanging out” I fell about 😂
That was literally the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages, and I’m from the UK 🇬🇧 😂😂😂 Just for reference, Jimmy Saville was a well known childrens TV presenter who died in 2011. After his death, it came to light that he was in fact the biggest peadophile the country had ever known, hundreds of people came forward and said they had been abused by him, the figure being somewhere around 500. There were so many victims that came forward, that the police had to launch a special investigation. Truly shocking and he never got justice served on him 🙁
**alleged biggest paedophile... Nothing was ever actually proven and all allegations were made postmortem, where no trial could take place, no evidence be looked at and all allegations were one-sided and defenceless. That being said, he was a paedo 😆
The first one was about a footballer who met a 15-year-old girl in a nightclub and was caught texting her. Does anyone else know if there was anything else he done?
A lot of people in UK know these chants because they've been chanted for so long, the tunes are common, one time in our restaurant some teenagers left sex toys in the restaurant in an Ann Summers bag, the girls were too embarrassed to come back for them so their boyfriends came in for them, and when they left, we chanted "We want our dick back", it was a quiet day and nothing else was going on. Was an amusing memory for the ages.
I never released just how different the culture was when it came to sports in the UK and USA. Until earlier this year I went to NYC and saw an ice hockey game. I couldn’t believe with such an awesome sport and an iconic venue the crowd was so dead! Apart from bei by prompted to chant “let’s go rangers 👏 👏 👏 “ was embarrassing 😂
Me and my daughter went to MSG and there were people litterally on their phones or talking the whole game....Next stop Philly,she hates my team but she had no choice but to applaud the Flers fans for the atmosphere, it was totally different.
hundreds of chants have made me laugh over the years but the silliest ones win... when 6 foot 7 Peter crouch signed for red shirted Liverpool the chants were 'he's big, he's red, his feet stick out the bed'
As a Latino living in the UK for almost 14 years, all I can say is that these people's rock and pop culture is incredibly vast because they've, well, essentially created it. So if there's a song that topped the charts for 1 week in 1986, they know it. There's also TONS of musicians here and it's not strange to bump into one who's had a hit. I live in Dundee, Scotland and I bumped a few months ago into Gary Clark from the band Danny Wilson. You might ask who the fk is that dude? Well, search "Mary's Prayer" and bobs yer uncle. Bro has a 80s number one hit and hits the same boozers as yours truly XD
One of the most used tunes for football chants is Guantanamera. Old hymn tunes from church, old pop songs, whatever has a good hook for singing along to.
@@patrickholt2270 oh yeah, and kids songs too. Ive only come to realise this cos my 3 year old toddler comes from nursery singing tunes that I heard before at Loftus Road haha (I'm a QPR fan, from the days I lived in London).
You should look up the tale of the very sordid Jimmy Saville it’s quite shocking as such an evil man was in entertainment “ high society” here for many years.
You laughing had me laughing haha. Our chants over here are not intended as hate or to bring a player down, it's just fun banter and the players know it and sometimes give it back. Sometimes the opposing fans applaud and shout out respects. It's all good natured for anyone new to this and feeling offended. The "fatty" chants to Goalies are shouted to all goalies too, it's like a law amongst fans haha. Great vid, loved your reactions 😂
The "you fat bastard" usually comes from the "who ate all the pies?" chant. Re: the steward with the Boris barnet,one of our regular stewards who used to have to stand at the front of the crowd and take it was an extremely hirsute ginger young man. The crowd decided looked like a werewolf,so used to do all this howling whenever we plodded past. There was another one who looked rather advanced in years,so they used to chant "old git,old git,give us a wave!" (which he often did) and "there's only one old git,walking in an old git wonderland."
I love going to football matches, there's no woke bollocks at footy matches, it's hilarious, we in the UK just take the piss out of each other, no hurt feelings, we just see which fans can come up with the most insulting/funny chants. 😂
As an American with many British Friends I love these chants , The Jimmy Saville he's fingered your mum , came at a bad time i was having a sip of my coffee and it went all over the TV , i cant laugh and drink the same time , i was laughing whole time i was cleaning my mess . Big fan of British Comedy and TV , Monty Python (of course ) , Are you Being Served , The Blackadder , The Young Ones , Allo Allo! a few of my favorites . Keep it up British friends .
I strongly recommend The Fast Show, sir 😉 IT Crowd, Harry Enfield, Reeves and Mortimer, League of Gentlemen and Peep Show too. Get back to me when you've watched them for more 😁
I'm old so I remember old things. Euro 96, Wembley. The proper Wembley. Scotland vs England. Full British crowd. Pre-match but live TV. Jimmy Hill walks around the touchline on his way to the commentary box. Crowd spots him. 10s of thousands of people sing "Jimmy Hill's a wanker" and many people near to him shout various unkind allegations about his parentage. All perfectly audible to those of us watching on TV. Jimmy Hill gets to the studio and is asked if he enjoyed his walk and he just laughs about it, couldn't care less, thought it was funny. Perfect.
I'm a brit but I don't follow football (I know sacrilege) but I found those chants hilarious. I wouldn't even mind being on the receiving end. Totally normal British banter. Having a stadium full of British people roast you is probably one of the best complements you can get.
@@daylightdies7194 I used to be a half decent player as a kid. We had a field directly outside my front door where we'd play whenever possible, but I hated football boots (and besides, didn't have any) and for games lessons at school, we HAD to play in football boots. So I'd bunk off instead. I was never interested in watching it though. As luck would have it, the only match I ever watched was England V Germany in the 1966 world cup final and England won pretty convincingly (something like 4-2). IIRC one of our guys (Geoff Hurst?) even scored a hat trick. Since then I've never been interested enough to watch another game.
I've had it before at an Arsenal U21-Coventry EFL Trophy game. I was the only one chanting and they chanted "There's only one of you singing" at me. Of course, I took it in good humour and responded with "Your ground's too big for you" and "This is a rugby ground" (as Wasps owned it). At the end, one of their fans sought me out and we shook hands because the banter was fun and not nasty.
Football here is very tribal. Mixed with the dark sarcastic British sense of humour, match day is incredible. If you get to the UK make sure you go to a game. Nothing like it! Great vid had me laughing all the way
The thing to note about these chants is that almost all of them are from smaller, lower division teams. The big boys, for example Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and the two Manchester teams have long been blanded out by corporatism, and this kind of spontaneous exuberance has mostly died out there.
Im from the U.K. and had girlfriends from other parts of the world and they say the male British humour is the most brutal and completely don’t understand it. We really don’t hold back, but so much of the time it’s completely nonsensical and totally meaningless. Especially towards close friends, but again to some degree it shows mutual respect and a kind of affection towards your brothers. That said, being into football as well. I have heard some football chats that could get you fully sent to prison 😂 It’s weird to me how matter of fact other cultures are when it comes to humour. Over here the more obscure, strange, down right bizarre the better.
The ONLY country that had singing fans was the UK , in Europe all their fans sang was stupid songs like "I believe we will win " until the clubs asked their fans to sing like the British fans. When England played America in the world cup the American fans were all dressed up like warriors and sang to the English fans " I believe that we will win , I believe that we will win" , to which the England fans replied " what the fuck , what the fucking hell was that " again and again while shaking their fists at them , most of the Arabs at the match laughed at the Americans Sadly for some reason the Americans didn't sing again at the match !!!n
@@DrunkTexanSays , got to admit that it was funny and I dare say that you have seen the videos comparing the American chanting to the UK or Europe chants. No one can think American fans chanting " we want our dick back " let alone taking it there 😂😂😂
Why did it take me, a english 37 year old woman, to watch a american dude to truly appreciate the art of the english football fans ability to be hilarious.
Lifelong Liverpool FC fan here. There's a ton of great songs in football too (not just chants) but yes, a lot of stuff is banter between rival clubs' fans. Some of the best have been left out in this video. One of my favourites I ever heard live, was when Liverpool FC were playing in Merseyside Derby with their closest city rival Everton. They were having the typical bad season (relegation zone), and we were having an unusually bad one and it was one of those rare occasions we were in the bottom half of the table with them, and the threat of relegation for us too, seemingly quite possible. Everton fans decided to banter us with a chant of "going down, going down, going down." And without missing a beat the Liverpool fans responded with "so are we, so are we, so are we." That shut them up lol
Jimmy Saville was a DJ and BBC presenter, friends with the Royal family and a famous celebrity. When he died 100s of women spoke up about him going into their schools and abusing them when they were children! He would do tonnes of charity work for a children's hospital too and was going around abusing sick children. Because he was so famous, he got to free roam where ever he wanted. His bosses knew what he was up to but looked the other way.
My fav. Shortly after Rooney's wife kicke him out...he was taking a free kick and the crowd was singing " no woman no kai*.." to bob Marley's no woman no cry. * His sons name OOF and OOOF
My favourite chant I saw many years back was when I attended a Berwick Rangers v perennial strugglers East Stirling match & at about the 4-0 mark the Berwick fans turned to the Shire fans & sang to the tune of Adam & the Ants Prince Charming 'East Stirling, Oh Oh East Stirling, oh oh ridicule is nothing to be scared of' while doing the crossed arm motions and step towards them as in the pop video. Classic spontaneous moment.
@9:20 Our football chants have been handed down from generation to generation, they are also adaptations of nursery rhymes or pop music so everyone knows the tune, the lyrics change with the culture at the time.… hope that helps ❤ Oh and there is no better feeling than starting a good football chant and then 15,000 people continue - it’s great fun
👍 this has to be the best of these kinds of videos I’ve seen! Seeing your disbelief and shock is so funny... when you said ‘they’re just trying to play soccer’ I got major cheek ache! I needed a good laugh - thanks 🏴
@@elizabethsellors9046no lmao but there will be a crowd due to people around the area getting on the train who are all fans and the crowding usually gets rowdy and loud which leads to shouting and someone just starting a chant randomly
@@chaoticmoron-zl6nvHow are they supposed to know someone that looks like Boris Johnson will be stewarding the game? They literally learn it on the spot to old chants. Its not hard.
@@chaoticmoron-zl6nvright just to clarify we don’t “rehearse” or “choreograph routines”. You learn them when you go to the games and hear other people singing them, lots of chants are quite old so everyone knows them and new ones get sung by a group of people which then spreads around the ground. Nowadays new chants also get spread around on social media
As someone who is from the UK, growing up watching your team, following them to every match you learn the songs and chants very quickly and they stay with you forever lol
The best chant I’ve ever heard was for Andy Goram in the 90’s. We all know the “there’s only one Messi/Ronaldo/whoever”. But then came Andy Goram who was diagnosed with schizophrenia so of course along came “there’s only 2 Andy Goram’s”
😂😂😂
thats Gold wow
Legendary 😂
Fuck that’s funny
You're all going to Hell (and so am I) 😂😂😂😂😂
An English football crowd is a living organism all of its own , with a very dark , no limits , sense of humour. We love it.
It used to be but. now we can't call Liverpool a bunch of murders
Do they have capo’s in England who either hits a drum a certain way or shouts the first line through a megaphone or whatever really. We have them here in the Netherlands
@@roykdeboythere are drummers but no megaphones
Most likely due to the UK tradition of gently rubbing the son's and daughters to get them to have a thicker skin so that they can cope with the daily ribbing we all had and generations will always have
As the saying goes
Stick and stone can break your bones but words can never hurt you.
@@petergilmartin2906that sounds like freedom of expression to me perfectly protected in the UK
Singing to the arsenal players “who’s going to drive you home” when half the team had been done for drink driving was one of my favourites.
During the Tony Adams days pre-Wenger, by any chance?
I liked the one about Özil.
@@Danlows1 sure is.
@@Danlows1 parlour, Merson, Adams and another few were off the road.
Proud of them all. Adams, Parlour, Merson etc
My favourite is when a team was losing bad, so their fans sung "lets pretend we scored a goal!" And then cheered, absolutely vicious
That's brilliant - can't beat self effacing crowd humour!
was spurs away at liverpool, we rarely ever beat them, probably like 3 maybe 4 times in the last 10 years, we play them a minimum of 2 times a season. that specific game that chant was sung we were losing 4-0
A French club's crowd also did it, though I don't remember which one.
Its a pretty common 1 for any team's fans when playing away from home and are losing without scoring a goal. Makes the sometimes very long trips a little bit better than going home after losing 4-0 away
As a Brit, I never realised just how funny football chants were until I watched an American reacting to them. It's just so normal for us 😂
Only takes one. Some stick, some don't. We all know the melody's, just need the words :)
nah literally btw 🤣
Been shouting "You fat Bastard" since primary
I feel the same way
Shit chants
One of my favourite chants 'you're nothing special we lose every week'
😂😂😂
that was West Ham at Manchester City in the vid.
@@CIMAmotor I never realised that and I have seen that clip 10 times...
Must follow a shit team if that's your favourite 😂
@@Isleofskye I was there, that's the only reason i know
my favourite chant is to this tune when my team is on a run of defeats then we take the lead in an away game
"how s**t must you be? we're winning away!"
UK kids spent years communally singing hymns in school assemblies. We’re genetically programmed to sing communally. It’s comes naturally 😂
So yrue
@alta8029 I never thought of it that way but it definitely makes sense, that’s interesting!
Someone only has to pass wind and we’ll get a tune out of it!
They don't do that any more I'm told,it's pathetic.
And spontaneously improvising rude lyrics to overwrite the hymnbook ones.
I was watching Sheffield Wednesday at Barnsley one year - the Wednesday goalie had just divorced his wife. The Barnsley fans started sing "Did she take it up the a***?" and the Wednesday goalie nodded and gave them a thumbs up.
We are trained as toddlers in the fine art of taking the piss 😂
Yes go girl !!!
Life wouldn't be worth living without piss taking.
Please I was trained before I was born to take the piss at games 😂 I’m certain I’m 95% sarcastic and 5% water meat and bones
Yes we are. We are unrivaled!
Us from Yorkshire are born with it
“Luis Suerez, his teeth are offside”.
Best footy chant I’ve heard.
That's quality
Mesut Ozil, his eyes are offside is a great variation on that
Keown is a Gargoyle was a great one I heard.
El Vampirii
😂
"It wasn't Saville, it was Gary Neville" Oh lord, where do we even start to explain this to Americans!? 😅
I love Man Utd and I know exactly what this chant is about.
well,as long as they get the idea that gn is a twat...
One of them played for BBC FC
please explain! hahaha send a link! what did gary do?
hahahahahahahaaaaa....donr mate, dont.
I remember a match between Germany and Holland a few years ago and the Dutch sang, “Bring back the bicycle of my grandmother.” This refers to German soldiers in WW2 who stole the bicycles when they invaded Holland.
A common German counter to a well-known rock song:"There comes a time...wohoo...when the levels rise again" referencing the devastating floods decades ago.
Towards the end of last season I was in the away end at Gillingham with Leyton Orient. It was a midweek evening match, so floodlit. Towards the end of the second half the power went out. We sang "You can't pay your bill, you can't pay your bill, you pikey bastards, you can't pay your bill" and "you need a quid for the meter, you need a quid for the meter, quid for the meter". Totally spontaneous because you can't prepare for things like that.
Another favourite was Walsall fans when a player from Forest Green Rovers, known for having the only completely vegan stadium in tbe world, fell face first on the putch and tbe Walsall fans sang "He's eating our grass, he's eating our grass, that vegan bastard, he's eating our grass".
I am crying 🤣🤣🤣
Hilarious
Excellent stuff. When you go to away games up in Yorkshire do you ever sing that "in your Northern slums" song (the version of which I first heard had several different verses)? Or "Compo* was your father"?
*from Last of the Summer Wine
Me too! OMG!
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lol that's good.
"Let's pretend we've scored a goal" followed by wild celebrations is my favourite
First saw Cardiff fans do that against us, we were like wtf? So funny.
My favourite is "he's got a plant pot on his head!"
not mine I,m singing it a lot lately with my rubbish team aaaarrrgggh
@@iamjimb"what a waste of council tax!"
“He’s eating a pie “ was funny too..
I can safely say they don't drink bud light!!!
Trust me that's beer you won't find any brit drinking even before the Dlyan thing ....let's go Brandon lol
Jd and coke... and coke. 🤣
if Carlsberg did football chants lol
still baffles me how it took all this time for americans to realise it's a shit beer, all it took was a little satanic panic
@@dangerousbeans8067 No real Brit would touch any of the tasteless American piss. What I found funny about the whole Bud Light thing was that the drop in sales was a self-own as we now know what these self-absorbed, self-proclaimed, "tough guys" and alpha males drink. 😂
I didn’t want that to end! Not laughed like that in awhile 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 strangely proud to be British 🇬🇧 😆😂🤣
Same was v funny
Strangely???
WE ARE BRITISH AND WE ARE PROUD!!! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Watching this American laugh along wholeheartedly without a clue what's happening, or why, is adorable. So innocent.
Yep, he has no idea who Jimmy Saville was, or any of the others.
Imagine if he had a clue.
Man U fans had a memorable one about Ji-Sung Park when he was playing for them:
"Park, Park, wherever you may be,
you eat dogs in your own country,
but it could be worse, you could be scouse,
eating rats in your council house"
🤣😅😂 I take it that it's sung to the tune of "Lord Of The Dance" 😂
There's the one about kagawa
My fave too
Man Utd have more songs about Liverpool than there own club.. no wonder they're so sh1t
You mean the one they stole from Wigan for Pascal Chimbonda?
Heard Gary Neville tell a story once about when he was warming up and a bunch of away fans starting singing "If the Neville's can play for England, so can I!", at which point Paul Scholes, Neville's team mate started singing along as well.... 😂😂😂
The Gary Neville song was Fulham fans at Craven Cottage
Thats banter at its finest when ur own guys are singing it 😂😂😂
As Gary says it... Bastard
It was my lot Fulham fan here at the cottage
Taking the piss out of each other and banter , a fine English art that is drummed into us from a very young age😂
Aussies do the same, understandably, but make sure complete humility ensured for life 🇦🇺
Aussies do the same, understandably, but make sure complete humility ensured for life 🇦🇺
@@Primaate Yes well aware you Aussie didn't fall very far from the tree remember the mother land rejected U..... You criminals Ur never be welcomed back without a prison escorts
Banter.... an excuse for being thick and ignorant and offensive. And when you are, pass it off as banter to make the other person feel stupid. Yeah the english way alright.
Being thick, ignorant and offensive and passing if off as banter when the other person calls you on it. Hmmmm, sounds about right for ye.
For the Americans who thought all English people are posh and polite - I’m glad we’ve cleared up that little misunderstanding.
Same 😂😂
They see London as posh 😂
Brits don't. Ghetto slum more like @@mbradfield53
@@mbradfield53haha Milllll
@@mbradfield53 LOL - take 'em to Millwall ;-)
European football fans always have great chants and the English are easily the best at it. British banter in general is just amazing, everyone loves british humor here in Sweden 😂
Remember the English fans signing about Swedish women at a world cup haha?
@@ilikelampshades6 Yes! That was hilarious 😂
I'm English and these aren't average English sports fans. Football fans are quite common and thuggish. If you went to see tennis or cricket you wouldn't hear anything like this as the fans are better educated.
@@AllieB-11.11 Obviously lol. You won't see hooligan brawls at any tennis match anywhere in the world bro 💀
@@Greksallad i dont think she knows that a lot of the casuals moved to watching cricket a few years ago . Not as bad i grant you that .... 🙏🫂🥷
Adam Johnson, a former Sunderland and Manchester City player. He was convicted for sexual conduct with a minor (I think the one in question was 15 at that time).
In the clips it is supporters of Newcastle that sing. Newcastle and Sunderland are archrivals and Johnson was Sunderland's best player and biggest star.
Jimmy Savil was UK's Bill Cosby both in celeberty ratings and what he did. Just that his conducts was far, far worse. After his death his victims started to come forth and it turned out he had been sexual abusing kids, teenagers and young women for decades. This happened while people with power where protecting him. Savil is genuinely one of the most vile and evil people ever lived.
Just to further add to the vileness, he also 'interfered' (to put it politely) with dead bodies in hospital morgues.
In the end Jim got Fixed!
Until Selenskiy arrived
Remember going to Sunderland matches and just being embarrassed of being there cause of Johnson
Saville wasn't "outed" until after he died. Enough people knew and it's basically known that he made it clear that he knew who most of the other celebrity perverts were and he would take them all down with him in a scandal that the entertainment industry would never recover from.
Forever proving why we don’t need something called a “cheerleader” to get the crowd excited
"You're nothing special, we lose every week!" has to be the BEST chant ever!
Sounds like Millwall on a Saturday... 😂🤣
Tomorrow afternoon I'll be at Kenilworth Road watching Luton play Man U. It's a certainty that someone, somewhere in the home crowd, will start "You'll never sing that, you'll never say that, Conference Champions, you'll never sing that", referring to the Hatters' progression from non-league to the Prem.
I liked the chant about the Korean guy "He'll shoot, He'll score, He'll eat your Labrador, Yp Lee, yp Lee"
There's an Arsenal chant about one rough player: "He's french, he's free, he'll break your fokin' knee - Flamini!"
🤣🤣🤣
Growing up in the UK you completely brutalise each other with insults constantly but it basically means someone likes you if you know them well and they do this. The Goalkeeper who they were calling fatty the fans will respect him for being a good sport and giving them a clap at the end!
I been doing it for years lol.i even told my manager that a vampire is more active in the day than he was.
@@robbiesmith2525I told my manager he looked like Dracula without the makeup and he laughed.
@@thesuperintendent4290 lol
I was logging in, in an American sports bar in Belgium, when I heard a scouse accent "fakin ell someone died in here or what?" ( it stunk like an explosion in a thunderbox before I got there). I flushed and came out of the cubicle "Yeah sorry bout that lads" "wheeey here he is the dirty cnut". I can honestly say I never felt more proud to be British than being insulted by a stranger in a pub toilet.
This is how we show emotion up north!
This is beyond fantastic.
Brutal.
Savage.
And silly and funny.
I loved all of these chants.
Love from Belgrade, Serbia.
I am English and was laughing so loud, been to hundreds of football matches and what you see is accepted and lauded, you pay to get in, and you have a 100% right to state your opinion and us brits have a very good sense of humour, and use it every time, great video.
But for how much longer?
@@Goady1000true.
Not if the fa have owt to say, they want us to become American and spend 40 mins chanting defense. They put ished leeds fans for responding to brighton fans "you're doing down with the palace" by chanting "you're going down on your boyfriends".
Free speech at football may not be around much longer
No-one in the world can insult like the British, national talent at its finest :D
@@kiwoo69Yeah, but even we have a ranking system. Londoners can't insult anyone, Northerners are pretty good, the Welsh have their moments... But the fucking Scots... They take it to another level. 😂
Societal norms are left at the turnstile at football. It's like connecting to a hive mind intent on being a bit of a dick, and it's brilliant. The amount of dads on the way out at the end telling their kids "Don't tell your mum we were calling them c***s"
one of my exs kids played for bristol city youth team went to a match once an everyone started chanting whos the wank*r in the black (the ref) he joined then looked at me thinkin i was gunna tell him off all i said was dont say it at home lol
Me and my dad go to games and I have to tell him "don't tell the kids I was swearing. I told them bum was a swear word"😂
My favourite was "His eyes are offside" for Mesut Ozil (who has bulging eyes). So cruel yet so funny 😂
Fantastic.
For me Ed Woodward chant and Kiddy family only good ones. Btw Dinamo Zagreb hools!
Your killing me!! 🤣😂🤣😂
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Also the Suarez one _"His teeth are offside"_ which was particularly funny because he had bitten a few players by then.
IM an American...born and raised, but I worked in England few a couple years. Thats when I was introduced to "chants". Their spirits are AMAZING and seem to be so united with each other. They chant in the bars, chant walking to the next bar...Its just a wonderful feeling to be around. ...and they do make them up on the spot, but some of the chants are preserved and stay the same. Also each neighborhood and futball team has their very own chant
As an Englishman who was probably a part of a couple of these chants... I'm immensely proud. We are unrivalled 😂
Ghey
@@iainjones7241Shut up you slag.
Go to an argentinian stadium
must keep it going. I’ve heard there are decent chants elsewhere too 🏆
Unrivalled - how? the breadth of the chants perhaps but lots of other nations fans sing along. Just not as entertaining and 'all mouth no.....'
'He's not even fat!' And therein lies the essence of terrace football humour 🤣
British humour is brutal. To the point that if someone you know, even family, is nice to you for longer than a minute, you start to get suspicious 😂😂😂😂
true !
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Difficult for Americans to comprehend but if you are being mercilessly roasted by a British person it normally means they like you.
@@cheekynandos5056 Exactly! 😁
We are the same way in some places in the US. Growing up in a farming town it's the same. The guys greet each other with insults and/or punching.@@cheekynandos5056
Many years ago my hubby went to an away game and then waited on the railway platform with fellow fans for their train home. On the opposite platform was a man in a long Macintosh coat. All the fans sung "Who's the flasher in the mac?" at him until he'd had enough and went into the waiting room. When he came back out they started doing it again! Poor bloke! 😂😂😂😂😂
As a Brit this was an absolute pleasure to watch. Glad you enjoyed it, it’s great fun.
I was at a match where a fan proposed to his girlfriend at half time and the whole crowd were singing '"You don't know what you're doing" It's a chant usually reserved for the match officials when they make a dodgy decision.
Was she a bit of a heffer?
@@behemothfan1990 Actually, no, she was a bit of alright as I remember.
I love the spontaneity of our chanting and the piss taking. We don't need drums, someone with a mic or another form of coordination, we just need our passion for our team coupled with our brilliant sense of humour.
Don't forget an enormous and way too irresponsible amount of alcohol....
@@elpipesape well it helps but not a requirement. 🤣
I'll show you my passion
Yeah, you're musical geniuses up there with Mozart, Bach, Hendrix and Easy muthafarkin E
I love English football, I've been to two games while in England and the atmosphere and passion is unmatched here in the states. It's a very addictive experience.
Adam Johnson was a footballer who got sent to jail for messing with little kiddies.
I’m so proud to be an English football fan, watching you enjoying our chants. 😂😂
Great video man. A lot of lower league clubs featured.
@davidbeeson9408 NOT QUITE u bellcheese!! He was convicted of kissing and touching a 15 year old girl who he thought was 18. Still got done for it though. Served 3 years of a 6 year sentence and put on the sex offenders register. The absolute lies and bollox of the statement above is a real worry. Is he messing around with a teenage girl who was only 1 year below the legal limit and acting like she was 18, YES!. Is he a pedo who was messing around with children, NO.
Yeah he finger blasted a 15 year old
You're kind of right with the Sky TV chant. They're the TV company with the broadcast rights for the league. So in this case they're interviewing people after the game. The reason people are chanting at them is because they're ridiculously overpriced and they move kick off dates and times often at short notice which means some fans, especially travelling away fans can't get to games.
Also Sky = Fox in the US
Not overpriced at all
@@headred76 sky is the limit...
@headred76 yes it is
@headred76 yes it very much is.
He genuinely has no idea how dark and hilarious these chants are 😂
If you get heckled for your weight when you're here, as an English man I can confirm, the best course of action is whip out a pint can of beer....stronger the better, down it in one and cheer like you've won the world cup. .... Acceptance will then be yours.
Goalkeepers always get the most stick, and if they turn around after their 45mins and give you a round of applause, they always get a huge cheer.
Our sense of humour is very dark. Great reaction video you had me laughing all the way through ✌️❤️From England
Stopped me in my tracks... your laughter was spontaneously attractive 😂😂😂 chuckling at your comments.
The lads will try to explain some of the lyrics, hilarious lyrics. 😂 😂😂😂
Lol us English are a different breed when it comes to dark humour
@@acmilangirl8202 definitely, we communicate through banter lol. Here in the North the sense of humour is brutal.
Adam johnson is an ex footballer that is currently in prison for being a nonce
Yep, Jimmy Saville fingered your Mum. But you have to hand it to blind prostitutes.
This is what it was like going to an English comprehensive school in the 70s/80s and 90s.😂 you develop a thick skin and a sense of humour very very quickly 😂
Too right! Very little education but a great schooling in bullying and practising 'divided we fall' for the British establishment.
@@louisewilliams7492 speak for yourself, i have a masters.
@@lionessrising7101 yeah, I was talking in relative terms. I wasn't saying that no one could access higher or post graduate education per se.
Can you imagine doing that these days? lol
Truth! ❤
The craziest thing about this is ..... They are so spontaneous and they sing it collectively. The Togetherness is just Mind-boggling
we the people of Britain are wild.
THE best one I’ve heard was British fans at the World Cup singing to Swedish fans after a loss “You’re shit, but your birds are fit”
And the reply, "Go home, to your ugly wives".
The keeper getting the piss taken out of him, then turns around and gives them a wave... followed by appreciation by the crowd. Its all meant in jest so footy fans appreciate when they laugh along too. Its part of the culture here. Theres also a great story about the Navy Seals and SAS in Iraq together for context of British humour. Outside the Seals barracks they put up a sign which read something like "second to no-one", so the SAS got a piece of cardboard and wrote "no-one" on it and put it above their barracks. Funny little micky taking things is something that seems to just be part of our way of life here, but its meant in a friendly, inclusive manner.
I wonder how Americans would react going for a drink with English lads. We destroy each other and love it! My mates and I are vile to each other!
on a slightly more serious note - but it relates and shows the brits ironic humour, in WW2 a group of american soldiers were coming in behind the english who were pinned down due to machine gun nests pointing right at them, the americans radio'd through to see if they needed help, the brits being in the usual ironic humourous way, replied "no its fine, no problems here" the americans left them stuck there for a few hours before they realised, they completely missed the irony in the brits humour...
irony, none do it as well as the brits! lol
@@jakewright4394 Pretty sure the story is from the Korean War and the British said they were "in a bit of a sitcky" or something like that. So Americans did understand that they were going through something but thought that it was a relatively minor thing the Brits could handle, while they were actually being overran by Chinese.
It was a SAS/SEALS training exercise... The SEALS got to the finishing camp first, and placed a sign saying "Second to none"
SAS arrived later while Americans were asleep and placed their sign saying "None"
P.s SAS actually won, because the SEALS missed several check points in the exercise, thinking because they were first across the finishing line they were Victorious... thay infact failed 😎
This is a uk centric thing. It’s a badge of honour
He’s blonde, he’s quick, his names a porno flick…. Emmanuelle…
Still one of the best chants I’ve ever heard
Us Brits not only are the kings of sarcasm, but we are the kings of comedy as well.
This is the kind of high-class cultural exchange the internet was meant for 😀
The chants often follow the same patterns. Everyone learns these songs and patterns over years of going to watch your team. So when someone throws and new name into the same old structure, everyone can easily adapt what they know to follow the new suggestions. Often started by one loud voice in the crowd
A lot of the tunes are from music hall, folk, even hymns and go back well over a hundred years. This truly is the essence of British culture.
I don't know why these videos of American's reacting to these chants bring me such joy, but I really loved your reaction - you have a great chuckle!!
Haha thanks!!
There was a chant against a Fulham striker, Bobby Zamora- to the tune of 'Thats amora'' by Dean Martin. " When you're sat in row zed, and the ball hits your head, that's Zamora". And in 1986, two players by the name of Gary Stevens played for England. To the tune of "Guantanamera"- ""Two Gary Stevens! There's only two Gary Stevens!" etc
Thats English football for you, especially at lower levels when the away fans are 3/4 metre away giving you shit but notice how he clapped at end and the fans clapped him also, he took alot of shit but didn't lose it and the away fans respect him for that
I was once in a dark alley with 10 or so drunk footie fans coming the other way.
I guess they noticed my discomfort and I was treated to an unexpected chorus of:
“and we’ll all go up the Swindon with our willies hanging out”
I fell about 😂
That's hilarious. Did you know which team?
It so was! Oxford Utd have a long rivalry with ‘the Swindon’
That was literally the funniest thing I’ve seen in ages, and I’m from the UK 🇬🇧 😂😂😂
Just for reference, Jimmy Saville was a well known childrens TV presenter who died in 2011. After his death, it came to light that he was in fact the biggest peadophile the country had ever known, hundreds of people came forward and said they had been abused by him, the figure being somewhere around 500. There were so many victims that came forward, that the police had to launch a special investigation. Truly shocking and he never got justice served on him 🙁
**alleged biggest paedophile... Nothing was ever actually proven and all allegations were made postmortem, where no trial could take place, no evidence be looked at and all allegations were one-sided and defenceless. That being said, he was a paedo 😆
The first one was about a footballer who met a 15-year-old girl in a nightclub and was caught texting her. Does anyone else know if there was anything else he done?
Adam Johnston did more than text and involved sexual acts and went to jail for it.
@@yodanksy yeah was gonna say.. he was sent to prison for 3 years, but has now been released.
@@ryanwebb5082 Only a bit of harmless fingering 😂
It's simply a tradition to call the goalie a fat bastatd. Started off 100 odd years ago with "who ate all the pies?" and got worse from there.
As a proud English football fan, I can honestly say the chants are my favourite part of the match when it’s going shit for us 😂
A lot of people in UK know these chants because they've been chanted for so long, the tunes are common, one time in our restaurant some teenagers left sex toys in the restaurant in an Ann Summers bag, the girls were too embarrassed to come back for them so their boyfriends came in for them, and when they left, we chanted "We want our dick back", it was a quiet day and nothing else was going on. Was an amusing memory for the ages.
I never released just how different the culture was when it came to sports in the UK and USA. Until earlier this year I went to NYC and saw an ice hockey game. I couldn’t believe with such an awesome sport and an iconic venue the crowd was so dead! Apart from bei by prompted to chant “let’s go rangers 👏 👏 👏 “ was embarrassing 😂
Camp Nou and The Bernabeau are also dead unless its an El Classico or semi final of Champs league.
Me and my daughter went to MSG and there were people litterally on their phones or talking the whole game....Next stop Philly,she hates my team but she had no choice but to applaud the Flers fans for the atmosphere, it was totally different.
😮@@nog5321
I just subbed for the single reason that your laughter is contagious, man... these days, we can all take something from that example. Cheers!
As an American, I’m in fucking tears at these chants
Come to a game. Just watch what side you're on ;)
We are playing Spain tonight I'm the European finals
hundreds of chants have made me laugh over the years but the silliest ones win... when 6 foot 7 Peter crouch signed for red shirted Liverpool the chants were 'he's big, he's red, his feet stick out the bed'
As a Latino living in the UK for almost 14 years, all I can say is that these people's rock and pop culture is incredibly vast because they've, well, essentially created it. So if there's a song that topped the charts for 1 week in 1986, they know it. There's also TONS of musicians here and it's not strange to bump into one who's had a hit. I live in Dundee, Scotland and I bumped a few months ago into Gary Clark from the band Danny Wilson. You might ask who the fk is that dude? Well, search "Mary's Prayer" and bobs yer uncle. Bro has a 80s number one hit and hits the same boozers as yours truly XD
One of the most used tunes for football chants is Guantanamera. Old hymn tunes from church, old pop songs, whatever has a good hook for singing along to.
@@patrickholt2270 oh yeah, and kids songs too. Ive only come to realise this cos my 3 year old toddler comes from nursery singing tunes that I heard before at Loftus Road haha (I'm a QPR fan, from the days I lived in London).
if i'm not mistaken Gary Clark's son is a huge star now!
@@quintinhoughtby1814 have no idea who he is mate. Guess another musician that might be around us in bars without being recognised lel
You should look up the tale of the very sordid Jimmy Saville it’s quite shocking as such an evil man was in entertainment “ high society” here for many years.
Finally, one of the most creative art forms is being recognised and celebrated - take a bow.
NZer here - I *LOVE* the British sense of humour! The football chants are awesome!
I'm on a journey of watching Americans react to British things. This is the best one. 😂
You laughing had me laughing haha. Our chants over here are not intended as hate or to bring a player down, it's just fun banter and the players know it and sometimes give it back. Sometimes the opposing fans applaud and shout out respects. It's all good natured for anyone new to this and feeling offended.
The "fatty" chants to Goalies are shouted to all goalies too, it's like a law amongst fans haha.
Great vid, loved your reactions 😂
The Blyth Spartans fans are some of the hardest on Goalies in the country.
@@CS-zn6ppBlyth spartans man, wasn't expecting to see that😂😂😂
@@CS-zn6pp haha how so? Gotta check that out 😀
The "you fat bastard" usually comes from the "who ate all the pies?" chant. Re: the steward with the Boris barnet,one of our regular stewards who used to have to stand at the front of the crowd and take it was an extremely hirsute ginger young man. The crowd decided looked like a werewolf,so used to do all this howling whenever we plodded past. There was another one who looked rather advanced in years,so they used to chant "old git,old git,give us a wave!" (which he often did) and "there's only one old git,walking in an old git wonderland."
I love going to football matches, there's no woke bollocks at footy matches, it's hilarious, we in the UK just take the piss out of each other, no hurt feelings, we just see which fans can come up with the most insulting/funny chants. 😂
As an American with many British Friends I love these chants , The Jimmy Saville he's fingered your mum , came at a bad time i was having a sip of my coffee and it went all over the TV , i cant laugh and drink the same time , i was laughing whole time i was cleaning my mess . Big fan of British Comedy and TV , Monty Python (of course ) , Are you Being Served , The Blackadder , The Young Ones , Allo Allo! a few of my favorites . Keep it up British friends .
I strongly recommend The Fast Show, sir 😉
IT Crowd, Harry Enfield, Reeves and Mortimer, League of Gentlemen and Peep Show too.
Get back to me when you've watched them for more 😁
Partridge…
All belters, apart from L.O.G. which is too creepy for me!
@@offshoretomorrow3346
British man here, I love all of the shows you mentioned too!
A Bit of Fry and Laurie is my favourite, followed by Black Books.
@@Der.Soldat I remember Are you being served from my childhood , goodtimes man one of my favs.
Primary school prepare us for football chants. They all are based of assembly tunes 😂 so we all know the tunes.
They are based on anything from contemporary
etro pop to Italian opera and beyond.Some of the tunes are even American.
This is why the fans in British sport are often called the 12th man, as they can influence a game as much as the players on the pitch.
I'm old so I remember old things. Euro 96, Wembley. The proper Wembley. Scotland vs England. Full British crowd. Pre-match but live TV. Jimmy Hill walks around the touchline on his way to the commentary box. Crowd spots him. 10s of thousands of people sing "Jimmy Hill's a wanker" and many people near to him shout various unkind allegations about his parentage. All perfectly audible to those of us watching on TV. Jimmy Hill gets to the studio and is asked if he enjoyed his walk and he just laughs about it, couldn't care less, thought it was funny. Perfect.
I'm from the UK and you had me laughing along with you to this 😀
Don't ever underestimate the British ability to be ruthless in sports chants
or anything else.
A lot of 19th century British sea shantys come from a similar collective psyche. Especially war chants. It really does get yer blood going.
Dude thanks for making this video and please make more like this. Your laughter and joy is so damn contagious!
The English sense of humour is second to none. Great banter 👍🏻
Thanks, Sly. My name is None.
I'm a brit but I don't follow football (I know sacrilege) but I found those chants hilarious. I wouldn't even mind being on the receiving end. Totally normal British banter. Having a stadium full of British people roast you is probably one of the best complements you can get.
Not sacrilege at all mate I’m British as well and because I was forced to play as a kid it’s a sport I avoid
@@daylightdies7194 I used to be a half decent player as a kid. We had a field directly outside my front door where we'd play whenever possible, but I hated football boots (and besides, didn't have any) and for games lessons at school, we HAD to play in football boots. So I'd bunk off instead.
I was never interested in watching it though. As luck would have it, the only match I ever watched was England V Germany in the 1966 world cup final and England won pretty convincingly (something like 4-2). IIRC one of our guys (Geoff Hurst?) even scored a hat trick.
Since then I've never been interested enough to watch another game.
I've had it before at an Arsenal U21-Coventry EFL Trophy game. I was the only one chanting and they chanted "There's only one of you singing" at me. Of course, I took it in good humour and responded with "Your ground's too big for you" and "This is a rugby ground" (as Wasps owned it). At the end, one of their fans sought me out and we shook hands because the banter was fun and not nasty.
Football here is very tribal. Mixed with the dark sarcastic British sense of humour, match day is incredible. If you get to the UK make sure you go to a game. Nothing like it!
Great vid had me laughing all the way
The thing to note about these chants is that almost all of them are from smaller, lower division teams. The big boys, for example Liverpool, Chelsea, Arsenal and the two Manchester teams have long been blanded out by corporatism, and this kind of spontaneous exuberance has mostly died out there.
Im from the U.K. and had girlfriends from other parts of the world and they say the male British humour is the most brutal and completely don’t understand it. We really don’t hold back, but so much of the time it’s completely nonsensical and totally meaningless. Especially towards close friends, but again to some degree it shows mutual respect and a kind of affection towards your brothers.
That said, being into football as well. I have heard some football chats that could get you fully sent to prison 😂
It’s weird to me how matter of fact other cultures are when it comes to humour. Over here the more obscure, strange, down right bizarre the better.
Listen to the American, "he's not even overweight". lol
The ONLY country that had singing fans was the UK , in Europe all their fans sang was stupid songs like "I believe we will win " until the clubs asked their fans to sing like the British fans.
When England played America in the world cup the American fans were all dressed up like warriors and sang to the English fans " I believe that we will win , I believe that we will win" , to which the England fans replied " what the fuck , what the fucking hell was that " again and again while shaking their fists at them , most of the Arabs at the match laughed at the Americans
Sadly for some reason the Americans didn't sing again at the match !!!n
Hahaha sounds about right
@@DrunkTexanSays , got to admit that it was funny and I dare say that you have seen the videos comparing the American chanting to the UK or Europe chants. No one can think American fans chanting " we want our dick back " let alone taking it there 😂😂😂
There was also “you’re avin a laugh,soppy yanks,you’re avin a laugh,soppy yanks”
The look of utter bewilderment on their faces was priceless.
Why did it take me, a english 37 year old woman, to watch a american dude to truly appreciate the art of the english football fans ability to be hilarious.
Same as,
53 from London,
The genius beauty of the TUBE
We take it for granted
Lifelong Liverpool FC fan here. There's a ton of great songs in football too (not just chants) but yes, a lot of stuff is banter between rival clubs' fans. Some of the best have been left out in this video.
One of my favourites I ever heard live, was when Liverpool FC were playing in Merseyside Derby with their closest city rival Everton. They were having the typical bad season (relegation zone), and we were having an unusually bad one and it was one of those rare occasions we were in the bottom half of the table with them, and the threat of relegation for us too, seemingly quite possible. Everton fans decided to banter us with a chant of "going down, going down, going down." And without missing a beat the Liverpool fans responded with "so are we, so are we, so are we." That shut them up lol
Been a Liverpool fan since I was a young un.
" you'll never walk alone "
that's the only UA-cam comment I have ever read that made me laugh out loud
Oh go Ed, what season was that Jenni?
Do u know the jonjo shelvey happy potter one
Liverpool FC 😅 lies lies lies never happend
I hope you make more of these British football reaction videos. You truly are a very entertaining man to watch
Well thank you!!
@DrunkTexanSays I agree. Was impressed
BEST reaction ever. Great video yank 👌
Jimmy Saville was a DJ and BBC presenter, friends with the Royal family and a famous celebrity. When he died 100s of women spoke up about him going into their schools and abusing them when they were children! He would do tonnes of charity work for a children's hospital too and was going around abusing sick children. Because he was so famous, he got to free roam where ever he wanted. His bosses knew what he was up to but looked the other way.
I think hes' also accused of having 'fun' with dead kids in morgues. Personally i find using his name out of order due to his depravity
His family removed his headstone when it was discovered what he had been up to. He now has a unmarked grave.
@@matthewdearsley123 Yes they use the name to shock people.
There should be a fine every time someone utters his name!! Grrrr!!! 🇬🇧
@@Paul-hl8yg Yes lets add more things you can get fined for in the UK.
My fav.
Shortly after Rooney's wife kicke him out...he was taking a free kick and the crowd was singing " no woman no kai*.." to bob Marley's no woman no cry.
* His sons name
OOF and OOOF
It's worse than filming a promo, they are live talking about the match that just finished and people at home watching on their TVs can hear it 😂
My favourite chant I saw many years back was when I attended a Berwick Rangers v perennial strugglers East Stirling match & at about the 4-0 mark the Berwick fans turned to the Shire fans & sang to the tune of Adam & the Ants Prince Charming 'East Stirling, Oh Oh East Stirling, oh oh ridicule is nothing to be scared of' while doing the crossed arm motions and step towards them as in the pop video. Classic spontaneous moment.
@9:20 Our football chants have been handed down from generation to generation, they are also adaptations of nursery rhymes or pop music so everyone knows the tune, the lyrics change with the culture at the time.… hope that helps ❤
Oh and there is no better feeling than starting a good football chant and then 15,000 people continue - it’s great fun
👍 this has to be the best of these kinds of videos I’ve seen! Seeing your disbelief and shock is so funny... when you said ‘they’re just trying to play soccer’ I got major cheek ache! I needed a good laugh - thanks 🏴
The British people spontaneously break into choreographed song due to a sub-space quantum anomaly.
From what I know they rehearse on the trains and by the point they reach the stadium and start these Chants everyone else kinda falls in to tune
@@chaoticmoron-zl6nvseriously all English fans are on one train?
@@elizabethsellors9046no lmao but there will be a crowd due to people around the area getting on the train who are all fans and the crowding usually gets rowdy and loud which leads to shouting and someone just starting a chant randomly
@@chaoticmoron-zl6nvHow are they supposed to know someone that looks like Boris Johnson will be stewarding the game? They literally learn it on the spot to old chants. Its not hard.
@@chaoticmoron-zl6nvright just to clarify we don’t “rehearse” or “choreograph routines”. You learn them when you go to the games and hear other people singing them, lots of chants are quite old so everyone knows them and new ones get sung by a group of people which then spreads around the ground. Nowadays new chants also get spread around on social media
One of the best clips I've seen. Thanks for this.
As someone who is from the UK, growing up watching your team, following them to every match you learn the songs and chants very quickly and they stay with you forever lol