What I love about football chants is that - if you can think of a witty rhyme that works with a well-known tune, you can start a chant right then yourself out of nowhere and people will latch onto it.
You need to remember, if a player from another club has been in the news for 'whatever' reason, then they become a target (much like your mates do when they get a nickname based upon some drunken error) It's always tongue in cheek.
But it's the obscurity of the melody, Guys rovers reserve team goalkeeper is being done for fraud, I've got a 16 line song to the theme of Mr Mistofoles off we go!
a detailed breakdown on the chants and how it happens so the tunes are melody that everyone knows, either nursery rhymes, songs we sang in primary school, iconic british songs or pop culture jingles like the Adams family or even just a tune from an advert that we all know and sometimes clubs will choose a song to play at a game and the fans pick it up and run with it or use another teams anthem against them changing the lyrics on the fly. At a game usually chants come up because of something in the news that's associated with the club or a player, (adam johnson) or a manager (fergie=alex ferguson), or jimmy saville who wasn't a player or a manager just someone we all collectively hate and use to express our displeasure for someone or something, so our chants can either praise a good thing/player or condemn a bad thing/player ect. so for chants made up on the spot they usually come out of nowhere started by one or two creative people in a crowd that starts chanting to a tune we all know like i said before, and because we know it people hear it and instantly understand the melody were running with, then the next bit is what's being said, if the things being said are relevant to what's happening on the news or in general or in the moment, then its just putting it together which happens almost instantly like a hive mind. when were all on board the noise builds up then its instantly clear and people can join in right away, ( its so well timed because most of us sang hymns in school and had to learn to be on time with everyone else and that ability never left us it just evolved) but honestly its just instant, our brains do it without much thought and usually the chant is something were all thinking anyway, so we all join in because we agree, chanting is truly the voice of our people and our viewpoint on things, if it was offhanded or out of place it wouldn't catch on and the person shouting would look stupid were british we hate looking stupid when prides involved, but if we agree then this is what happens
Adam Johnson did do the things that those fans were accusing him of. The reason that he was still playing was because he basically said that all of the allegations were complete fabrications - and his club, Sunderland, foolishly decided to believe him and allowed him to carry on playing for them between his arrest and his trial - where he was found guilty and prompted fired and has never played football since.
Adam Johnson had sex with a 15 year old girl who claimed to be 18. The responsibility it seems is on the man to "ID" everyone he has sex with. (He was in no way in the same league as Jimmy Saville.)
The TV ones are funny because you can hear the chanting on TV. Sky TV charge pubs a fortune to play the matches on the screen in there. It’s a big thing to go to the pub or a ‘sports bar’ to watch a match and pubs are struggling enough as it is with the smoking ban, people drinking at home, rising rent, tax on alcohol and massive energy costs.
@@BlinkyMet I was born in 1995. I can understand why the ban made a big difference at the time it was introduced but smoking numbers have drastically reduced since then. I would assume that allowing smoking indoors would reduce customer numbers nowadays. However, maybe I'm wrong and only think that because I personally wouldn't go into a pub where people smoke indoors.
@@lolsaXx mind you apparently 22 percent of teenagers are vaping i just think the pint isnt competitive on price in many places and the drinking pub in the the towns and villages has been in long term decline for all these reasons. To add in the early 90s i could walk from pub to pub in a small town on a friday night and it would virtually always be busy.
The Sky TV chant/song is sung because the fans know that they're broadcasting live, and they know that whatever they sing will be heard live on TV across the country. The louder they are then the better it will be, from their point of view. They can try to reduce the sound from mic's around the ground, but when it's picked up on mic's used by presenters and guests on postmatch interviews then they know there's zero possibility of it being muted. All they can do is apologise for it being "beyond their control"
Songs mainly get started with one man which then just spreads. Sometimes there's a particular supporter who comes up with the chants regularly. The vast majority of songs created use the same handful of melodies from real songs, which makes it easy for everyone to quickly understand and join in.
@@reactingtomyroots A lot of them are spontaneous in the stadium as fans just react to what is happening around them, but often times songs are also born in pubs before/after games.
You have to remember that in football games the opposing fans are separated so both set of fans will chant at each other, the opposing players etc. And fans will definitely go after anything that they may consider to be a weakness to put players off of their games. In the UK, Europe and South America this will be pretty standard though most players expect it and quickly learn to block it all out. It all adds to the atmosphere and the passion of the fans can actually help teams especially at home.
It's *nearly* all in good fun. That goalie, despite having loads of chants about him, clapped the opposing side and they clapped him at the end. It's like a test. You have to take the insults and if you do with a smile on your face, you passed and get a clap back.
Hey guys...Adam Johnson was an ex England international footballer that played at the highest club level. He was a multi millionaire who was in a long term relationship with his girlfriend until he was charged with grooming a minor. He was bailed and I believe played football for his club at the time Sunderland which lead to the chants from rival fans. He was found guilty and sentenced to 6 years in jail. The Leeds Utd football team fans did shout some 'interesting' chants about Saville. Leeds was were Saville was born and where he had a home until his death. The banter at football can seem harsh to many but it's part of the game.
Interesting is not a word I would use. The word would be vile for the case of Jimmy Saville. He abused vulnerable people across the country and his victims could be in the stadium and hearing some fans glorifying Jimmy Saville is vile and people should educate fellow fans that this is 100% sick. Imagine American sports fans glorifying Epstein, Crosby, Weinstein or other well known abusers just because they support the same team.
You've not lived until you've felt the passion, banter and chants of football games and the fans, the atmosphere is electric and when you get chants going like this which are very often started off the cuff to a memorable tune, it's a day to remember and you know you've had a good time even if your team loses.
That was my favorite too - definitely an interesting way to rally and try to make the opposing fans quiet down, it's a great way to try shift the fan momentum - people don't know how to get around self deprecation like that.
The atmosphere and noise level at a game is epic especially if the football ground is full. Passionate doesn’t cover it. Back in the 1960’s there was a player, (later a manager) called Bill Shankly. He got it perfectly correct when he was Quoted as saying “Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”. Some of the chants are used at every game and others are created there and then. A supporter will think of one, start singing it and the good ones cause a ripple effect as other fans pick up on it so it gets bigger and louder as it spreads out. The whole idea is that it’s all meant in fun but your insulting your opponent to get the crowd going.
Bill Shankly ( and his brothers who also played professional football) were from a small Ayrshire mining town up on the hills and moors near the edge of the Lanarkshire border. It had a maximum population of c1700 yet produced something like 50 professional footballers. It was the only way to escape the drudgery and danger of the coal mines.
@@helenwood8482 You get a bit of both, but they are separate things. For example, the sexist and racist chants are typically frowned upon nowadays and will often see stadium bans given out. But there is still a lot of passion for the clubs with both male and female fans.
Religion...no no no.....we don't send anyone to eternal damnation, we don't cut off anyone's heads, we don't torture you if you disagree..... most importantly, we don't take ourselves too seriously. But...football is serious, no religion can come close!
I'm so proud that we are so creative Hahahha. There is normally one stand that has the loudest fans and the away fans do get roasted if they're not loud enough for there own team!
I was a bit worried when I saw you were reacting to this as you are such a nice couple, I was afraid you would be offended! Glad to see you get the very bawdy humour and banter.
15:37 the goalies however have the advantage that the teams "change ends" at half time so they swap goals over - this evens out any imperfections or slopes in the pitch etc as each team has played one half "uphill". It also means the goalies spend half of the match at the end with the opposition fans, and half at the end with their own fans (since fans sit by team so there's less opportunity for them to fight each other inside the stadium)
People don’t practise a lot of the off-the-cuff chants, but there are a lot of very well known melodies that can use any words to become a chant. Once one guy established the words, it can catch on very quickly and because everyone knows the tune it sounds like everyone knows the song
The reason why we're into it so much is because in the UK after you're born you get taught to walk and talk etc, but the most important thing you get taught (normally through family lineage) what team you support for the entirety of you life. We get a birth certificate and a club, then we're set for life. I changed my name so when I die I'm not dying as the name on my birth certificate, birth certificates aren't certain, but one thing that is, when I die I'll die as a supporter and fan of the my club, that can't and never can be changed.
@@carolinecrollick6305 Sometimes that's how it is, My grandad, uncle and aunt supported Manchester United. My mum, my Nan and all my other aunts supported Liverpool. It certainly makes things interesting doesn't it. 😂
@@wolverine9787 my cousin and brother and nephews support Leeds and I support Forest. We call it a family result. Mind you when Leeds play Derby sheep I cheer for Leeds
I am very fortunate (or unfortunate) blue blood runs through all of our veins! Everton is inherited, we are born not manufactured, we do not choose, we are chosen.
one of the big cultural things playing out here you might be missing is that british schools (at least up till i left school like a decade ago, idk these days) very often do songs and shit in assemblies. think of it like our version of you guys doing the pledge at the start of class. assemblies is the whole school gathering often weekly for like a little presentation, and at least in primary school you all do songs during them. and its always the same songs, often with very recognisable patterns and lyrical cues. most of these chants you see in footie stem from those. nursery rhymes and common church hymns and things, these crowds take the same patterns that everyone remembers from school days. and often one dude will start off so everyone can get the words and then everyone knows how to join in. you can probably recognise most of them in this video - most of them follow the same rhythmic pattern and theres usually a few guys louder than others. its basically call and response using patterns everyone knows as the base to parody from. mix that with drunk footie fans who love taking the piss out of players, which is also a cultural pastime, and a heavy heaping off sarcasm and you get shit like this lol
Anyone planning to use public transport during a "match day", you may experience some of the fans and their culture. Makes for a very different journey. Depending on whether they are travelling to or from a match. Might be worth knowing if they won or lost the game, too. From Yorkshire
A lot of these chants are regularly re used apart from they just change names/a few words. However normally it is a small section of fans that start a chant, however once it’s started you’ll have the whole set of fans singing it. That’s the magic of it, all it takes is one person to get the whole lot of fans singing along
Never Walk Alone is iconic, same with Forever Blowing Bubbles. Keep Right On is one I love too. When a team has a unique anthem that is just part of the fabric of the club, it's amazing to hear it sang by tens of thousands of people.
Jimmy Saville was a local of my city Leeds (unfortunately), so when any away teams come play at my team, Leeds united (American owned) they always chant about Jimmy Saville.. a lot of the chants on this video are replies from the Leeds fans 😂
You have to bear in mind it isn't an accident that the teams are named after towns and boroughs etc. These aren't franchises that can be moved around they are rooted in communities and most of them date back to the 19C....as do the rivalries with their other local teams. Add to that a layer of "hatred" built up over 130/150 years of competition between them.... Almost all of these were from the lower tiers of the football pyramid.... Don't forget we have about six tiers of either professional or semi professional teams and below that many more layers of amateur but no less passionate clubs.
You have a similar sort of thing with the NHL, MLB and NFL, though the teams are often a lot younger than British football teams. You couldn't move most of those teams from their hometown - though some have relocated and actually done better in their new city (Dallas Stars come to mind in particular - they have an extremely dedicated fanbase in Dallas, which is amazing, love that for them!). I can't really say much on the NFL and MLB, I never got into those, but I did get into watching ice hockey, however I don't think it unlikely teams in those leagues have moved to new cities and built stronger fanbases by doing so.
Adam Johnson was guilty of sexual activity with a child, the offences happening whilst his partner was pregnant with or had just given birth to his child.
Jimmy Saville was accused by many many people of sexual assault when they were kids just after he died - this led to a massive police operation (Operation Yewtree) which uncovered other celebrities who had done similar things, and really opened people's eyes to what the culture around this kind of abuse was in the 1970s/80s. Saville was a children's TV presenter and through this had unrestricted access to a number of children whom he abused in several settings, such as hospitals, care homes, orphanages etc as well as inside TV studios and dressing rooms etc. People at the time knew about what he and others like him were doing but they either couldn't do anything about it as he was a famous star and they wouldn't be listened to, or they chose to ignore it.
You two are great! I love your curiosity and your reactions to our sometimes weird culture. You reply to people who answer your questions. Not many reaction vloggers do that. ❤
Definitely gets colourful at the football 😂😂 haven't been to a match for years but was plenty of songs going back and forth lol was at Stamford bridge Chelsea v Leicester in league cup and a 4-3 result😊
Most of us brits grow up singing the same hymns/songs over and over again in assembly in the mornings at school, so a lot of the group singing comes from that. Some of the chants are to tunes of popular songs but a lot are to to the tune of the hymns we used to sing as kids.
This is tame. A lot of the teams in this video are lower league teams with smaller crowds. The players have thick skin, and so has the ref. They receive worse than this on match days. I, personally, love it. You can't beat watching your team play and having a few beers and singsong/chant with your fellow fans.
In terms of how we know the words, there are only a handful of tunes and they are very repetitive, so when someone starts a chant it can be picked up very easily.
Have you listened to the songs associated with football teams in the UK? West Ham has ‘I’m forever blowing bubbles’. Liverpool has ‘You’ll never walk alone” but it used to be ‘She loves You’ at the height of Beatlemania. Hearts (Heart of Midlothian from Edinburgh) has ‘Hearts, Hearts, glorious Hearts’ And their city rivals Hibs, (Hibernian) have ‘Sunshine on Leith’ by The Proclaimers. And when they ring the lyrics The Chief, they are referencing GOD.
you two are such an awesome couple to watch and very very funny too Loved your reaction to the videos 😂😂😂 Best American youtubers I've seen soo far well you both are 😃👍😍
‘Fergie’ is Sir Alexander Ferguson CBE - Scottish former football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time and has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football.
The chant is about Alex Ferguson's son Darren who was accused of assaulting his wife. The chant "your dad's a c*nt and so are you" was also aimed at Darren (and Alex) Ferguson.
I am a huge football fan. My Gooner grandad took me to Highbury when I was 6 years old and I've loved it since. The crowds definitely add to the atmosphere. Also the personal ones mostly have nuggets of a truth.
At 7:28 It actually turned into a verse from "Glad all over" by 'Dave Clark Five'. All off the cuff improvisation. If one guy starts a good one, everybody else will naturally join in and with a 90 minute match, you gotta keep it fresh or mix it up, or it's gonna get old.
Back in the day we all had to sing together every morning in school assembly up and down these islands. It was the same on the terraces. Some witty sod will come up with a few relevant lyrics and it will spread. We are used to it and a lot of the tunes are already known. Loved seeing your reaction
They are mainly organic. Anyone can be a target, players, managers, referees, stewards or just an unfortunate member of the crowd. And if you can chuck a few swear words in there then so much the better.
Football was hardly ever watched in our house. None of us were really interested. My brothers and dad preferred motorbikes, cars, aeroplanes and fishing. 🙂
Definitely not unexpected + Brit humour, if someone like a player, manager or linked to the club misbehaves/gets in the news, the other team's supporters are definitely going to chant about it. I know a few other channels have done it, but Welcome to Wrexham about the Welsh team that got bought by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McIlheney is a) a pretty decent intro to football b) pretty heartwarming and a really decent look into a town that's had a hard time economically. Most teams that have played against Wrexham have some kind of chant about Reynolds and not complimentary 😂
3:25 a lot of the songs are spontaneous but you'll notice throughout the video that a lot of them contain the following elements: 1. A recognisable "tune" which everyone knows already (like "When Johnny comes marching home" or "Kumbyah" etc) 2. Repetetive lines which are easy to remember 3. Words which fit the beat A significant proportion of chants are well known though and will feature heavily - some of them hang around a player for their entire career, some of them stay for a few weeks, some have been going on for years and years.
The thing that I imagine will shock you guys from the US even more is the reason we can all sing along to a lot of these chants is because a lot of them are based on hymns we sung in school lmao.
A few buses? The home stand behind a goal would hold an aversge of 6000 fans, my team has a stadium capzcity of zbout 25,000 of which 2,500 tickets are allocsted to away supporters. Most chants are made to well known tunes, most indultz are topical. Many teams have passionate song which you should check out. Such as Liverpool F.C. Kop simging 'You'l never walk alone', West Bromwich Albion fans singing 'The Lords my shepherd , or Bristol Rovers singing 'Goodnight Eileen'. It's all part of the identity of a club.
@@carefreescot sorry Goodnight Irene was what I intended to put, memories of some happy yimes st Eastville watching the Gas, also watchinv Bristol Bulkfogs Speedway back in the day.
@@RobertLloyd-f3p I wondered at first if you'd got confused with Dexys song, thinking of the bib & brace fashion. I went in the old Tote End a few times back in the 70's, also visited City and Swindon as I lived in the Cotswolds for a while, but my heart has always been with a current Premier League club.
You gotta admit it’s funny. Watching your reaction had me in stitches. Look up Jimmy saville though. In England we take the piss out of each other a lot so it’s all fun, mostly. At least it used to be
"Do they rehearse it beforehand?" As an English football fan I can attest that any kid who likes football learns to join in a chant by the age of 8. Just takes one guy to come up with a good / funny chant and he'll shout it out, 5 or 6 people around him will pick it up and shout it too. Then 20 - 40 people will pick it up and it escalates like that, before long thousands will be chanting.
"The Kiddy Family" (sung to the tune of "The Addams Family") is _my favourite_ chant, but I do know most of the tunes they sing, and the words are easily picked up!! And, I dont even watch football or have a specific team I follow - despite Cyrstal Palace probably being my nearest team...just a bus ride away! 🤭
as a 58 year old scouser and follower of LFC all me life i can sum up British Football like this a boss day out following the reds begins the night before, getting your match clobber on. Up early LFC v THFC 440 mile round trip on a coach. All getting more and more pissed 90 minutes and hopefully a win and then off home. all the time singing funny and abusive Ill leave you with this in football, you don’t have to be fat to be called fat bastard. we just know it hurts 😂
Ohhhhh no, the whole crowd gets going on some of these lol... would love to take you guys to a Villa game, most of our chants get taken and sang all over the place
Regarding the effect chants have on players, Nottingham forest had a fairly good striker and his career fell off a cliff because fans chanting about his hair got under his skin so much. It even spread to tv comics making fun of him.
Great reaction here guys. With regards to the expression 'noncing' from the first chant (re Adam Johnson) Im not sure if it's been mentioned already in the comments but the term 'nonce' which is used to refer to a paedophile or someone who convicted for harming children, is originally a prison acronym in the UK, standing for 'Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise'. This is because people have convicted of such crimes are the ones more likely to be attacked by other inmates while in jail.
Your point about getting involved when attending live sports is so true. Whether I'm at a racecourse or a motor racing track, cheering my sons or grandsons at lacrosse, swim meets, football, CFL, rugby, or even athletics or hockey, it's easy to become hyped by the atmosphere. The only exception for me is basketball, which I find too repetitive. I get hyped watching eventing and taikwando meets too, but there it is more restrained.
The Adam johnoson reference, is true, it was i think a 15 year old, he played for my team sunderland, the fans singing, are our arch rivals newcastle, he did go to prison
@@allanmanaged5285 yes was a typo, the number 5 sticks on my keyboard, its old lap top, i have a new lap top, but still like my old one, , corrected typo, thanks
Best part about football is winding up football fans, i have my home team that i follow but i couldnt careless but i can use my limited knowledge to wind people up 😂
Great channel and lovely couple. A touch of direction for future viewing. There were 4 massive stories to come out of England and are a 'must watch' to know some of Britains dark side... Jimmy Saville Dr Harold Shipman The moors murders Peter Sutcliffe The ripper No heroes here but had a huge impact on life in England..... Keep the good work up guys 👏👏👏😎
7:20 They aren't "being mean". This is British humour, banter. You break each other down for fun. All is fun and games but you dig the knife in and twist it. But they all stand for the National team in the end.
The chants are crazy. My son is a huge football fan ( Arsenal) He even runs a successful ig page. He often makes up chants and they actually get used at the games. I will point out they aren’t quite like the ones in this video 😮 They are actually positive ones to popular song tunes
Watching Americans react to our football chants is one of my guiltiest pleasures.
FYI, Adam Johnson = bad, Jimmy Saville = much, much worse
Up here in Scotland we had a whole team who made them both look like choirboys.
Celtic FC paedophile scandal.
Omg fr
I love how most of the chants are leeds united no wonder my misses is a mad leeds fan 😂
@@Simply_lily.2 Jimmy Saville was a famous TV show host in the 70s from Leeds, who once he died it turned out he was a notorious Paedophile
no need to edit sweraring ,just after ad revenue
What I love about football chants is that - if you can think of a witty rhyme that works with a well-known tune, you can start a chant right then yourself out of nowhere and people will latch onto it.
Best start to a chant reaction video ever- "it makes you feel like a part of the community" immediately followed by "so fuck off Adam Johnson" 😂
You need to remember, if a player from another club has been in the news for 'whatever' reason, then they become a target (much like your mates do when they get a nickname based upon some drunken error) It's always tongue in cheek.
Yeah, great point!
It’s not tongue in cheek when it comes to people like Adam Johnson, he went to jail, sometimes it’s serious.
But it's the obscurity of the melody,
Guys rovers reserve team goalkeeper is being done for fraud, I've got a 16 line song to the theme of Mr Mistofoles off we go!
To defend the Geordies Adam Johnson was convicted of sexual assault of a 15 year old girl, so he was a nonce
When you in the UK let me know, I'll take you to a game
a detailed breakdown on the chants and how it happens
so the tunes are melody that everyone knows, either nursery rhymes, songs we sang in primary school, iconic british songs or pop culture jingles like the Adams family or even just a tune from an advert that we all know and sometimes clubs will choose a song to play at a game and the fans pick it up and run with it or use another teams anthem against them changing the lyrics on the fly.
At a game usually chants come up because of something in the news that's associated with the club or a player, (adam johnson) or a manager (fergie=alex ferguson), or jimmy saville who wasn't a player or a manager just someone we all collectively hate and use to express our displeasure for someone or something, so our chants can either praise a good thing/player or condemn a bad thing/player ect.
so for chants made up on the spot they usually come out of nowhere started by one or two creative people in a crowd that starts chanting to a tune we all know like i said before, and because we know it people hear it and instantly understand the melody were running with, then the next bit is what's being said, if the things being said are relevant to what's happening on the news or in general or in the moment, then its just putting it together which happens almost instantly like a hive mind. when were all on board the noise builds up then its instantly clear and people can join in right away, ( its so well timed because most of us sang hymns in school and had to learn to be on time with everyone else and that ability never left us it just evolved)
but honestly its just instant, our brains do it without much thought and usually the chant is something were all thinking anyway, so we all join in because we agree, chanting is truly the voice of our people and our viewpoint on things, if it was offhanded or out of place it wouldn't catch on and the person shouting would look stupid were british we hate looking stupid when prides involved, but if we agree then this is what happens
Love it! Thanks for explaining :)
Adam Johnson did do the things that those fans were accusing him of. The reason that he was still playing was because he basically said that all of the allegations were complete fabrications - and his club, Sunderland, foolishly decided to believe him and allowed him to carry on playing for them between his arrest and his trial - where he was found guilty and prompted fired and has never played football since.
Thanks for explaining!
@@reactingtomyrootschucked it all away fir a 15 year old the nonce lol
@VillaFanDan92 totally agree with jimmy saville, no justice for the monster he was.
I mean, being civilized and believing in in doubt for the accused isn't foolish.^
Adam Johnson had sex with a 15 year old girl who claimed to be 18. The responsibility it seems is on the man to "ID" everyone he has sex with. (He was in no way in the same league as Jimmy Saville.)
The TV ones are funny because you can hear the chanting on TV. Sky TV charge pubs a fortune to play the matches on the screen in there. It’s a big thing to go to the pub or a ‘sports bar’ to watch a match and pubs are struggling enough as it is with the smoking ban, people drinking at home, rising rent, tax on alcohol and massive energy costs.
I find it difficult to believe that the "smoking ban" is contributing to the struggles nowadays.. the rest is on point though.
Ah, that was the context we needed 😂
@@lolsaXxI assume you are under 28? (Guessing the age but the ban made a huge difference)
@@BlinkyMet I was born in 1995. I can understand why the ban made a big difference at the time it was introduced but smoking numbers have drastically reduced since then. I would assume that allowing smoking indoors would reduce customer numbers nowadays. However, maybe I'm wrong and only think that because I personally wouldn't go into a pub where people smoke indoors.
@@lolsaXx mind you apparently 22 percent of teenagers are vaping i just think the pint isnt competitive on price in many places and the drinking pub in the the towns and villages has been in long term decline for all these reasons. To add in the early 90s i could walk from pub to pub in a small town on a friday night and it would virtually always be busy.
The Sky TV chant/song is sung because the fans know that they're broadcasting live, and they know that whatever they sing will be heard live on TV across the country. The louder they are then the better it will be, from their point of view. They can try to reduce the sound from mic's around the ground, but when it's picked up on mic's used by presenters and guests on postmatch interviews then they know there's zero possibility of it being muted. All they can do is apologise for it being "beyond their control"
Songs mainly get started with one man which then just spreads. Sometimes there's a particular supporter who comes up with the chants regularly. The vast majority of songs created use the same handful of melodies from real songs, which makes it easy for everyone to quickly understand and join in.
That's cool!
@@reactingtomyroots A lot of them are spontaneous in the stadium as fans just react to what is happening around them, but often times songs are also born in pubs before/after games.
Some are chants sung around England's club but the names or insults are interchangeable.
You have to remember that in football games the opposing fans are separated so both set of fans will chant at each other, the opposing players etc. And fans will definitely go after anything that they may consider to be a weakness to put players off of their games. In the UK, Europe and South America this will be pretty standard though most players expect it and quickly learn to block it all out. It all adds to the atmosphere and the passion of the fans can actually help teams especially at home.
It's *nearly* all in good fun. That goalie, despite having loads of chants about him, clapped the opposing side and they clapped him at the end. It's like a test. You have to take the insults and if you do with a smile on your face, you passed and get a clap back.
Jimmy Saville. I remember when he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded😂
did he show you his magic trick. you sit on his lap and would say "can you feel my finger up your bum" then "ta-da ... look no hands" lol
Pure gold
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Groomers even have a better trick
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Hey guys...Adam Johnson was an ex England international footballer that played at the highest club level. He was a multi millionaire who was in a long term relationship with his girlfriend until he was charged with grooming a minor. He was bailed and I believe played football for his club at the time Sunderland which lead to the chants from rival fans. He was found guilty and sentenced to 6 years in jail.
The Leeds Utd football team fans did shout some 'interesting' chants about Saville. Leeds was were Saville was born and where he had a home until his death.
The banter at football can seem harsh to many but it's part of the game.
Yeah, that makes sense. Appreciate you filling in the blanks for us :)
He was only in jail for 3 years though
@@NxthsaneAye, it’s called “released on licence” or more commonly “paroled”
Interesting is not a word I would use. The word would be vile for the case of Jimmy Saville. He abused vulnerable people across the country and his victims could be in the stadium and hearing some fans glorifying Jimmy Saville is vile and people should educate fellow fans that this is 100% sick. Imagine American sports fans glorifying Epstein, Crosby, Weinstein or other well known abusers just because they support the same team.
You've not lived until you've felt the passion, banter and chants of football games and the fans, the atmosphere is electric and when you get chants going like this which are very often started off the cuff to a memorable tune, it's a day to remember and you know you've had a good time even if your team loses.
My favourite chant has to be “ We lose every week, we lose every week, you’re nothing special, we lose every week”
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That was my favorite too - definitely an interesting way to rally and try to make the opposing fans quiet down, it's a great way to try shift the fan momentum - people don't know how to get around self deprecation like that.
Mine too. My other favorite is "let's pretend we scored a goal"
Yeah, that one's great!
That one killed me😂😂😂😂😂😂
The atmosphere and noise level at a game is epic especially if the football ground is full. Passionate doesn’t cover it.
Back in the 1960’s there was a player, (later a manager) called Bill Shankly. He got it perfectly correct when he was Quoted as saying
“Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that.”.
Some of the chants are used at every game and others are created there and then. A supporter will think of one, start singing it and the good ones cause a ripple effect as other fans pick up on it so it gets bigger and louder as it spreads out. The whole idea is that it’s all meant in fun but your insulting your opponent to get the crowd going.
Bill Shankly ( and his brothers who also played professional football) were from a small Ayrshire mining town up on the hills and moors near the edge of the Lanarkshire border. It had a maximum population of c1700 yet produced something like 50 professional footballers. It was the only way to escape the drudgery and danger of the coal mines.
You should react to the video about the football crowd singing "You'll Never Walk Alone" and "I'm forever Blowing Bubbles" They'll make you cry. 🙂
Scousers and Cockneys always make me cry! 😂
Your reactions to this were absolutely priceless! We’re a bit savage here…😂🏴
Football is a religion, your stadium is where you worship.... No sport in the US compares in anyway to the passion of a football fan
That's not passion, it's drunken inadequacy.
@@helenwood8482 You get a bit of both, but they are separate things. For example, the sexist and racist chants are typically frowned upon nowadays and will often see stadium bans given out. But there is still a lot of passion for the clubs with both male and female fans.
@@helenwood8482I’m a diehard football fan and I’ve never touched alcohol. You don’t know what you’re talking about
Religion...no no no.....we don't send anyone to eternal damnation, we don't cut off anyone's heads, we don't torture you if you disagree..... most importantly, we don't take ourselves too seriously. But...football is serious, no religion can come close!
Context for the 'Kiddy family' one, the other team is from Kidderminster
And is sung in a few matches, usually local derbies. Seen a few sing it towards Barnsley fans in the past xD
@@WickerrmanIt can be used anywhere---- but there's only one 'Kiddy'!!!
It started in Ipswich(Suffolk) and was aimed at East Anglian rivals Norwich(Norfolk). East Anglians are reckoned by many to be inbred.
"Gosh, the Brits seems so stoic, I wonder why?"
Now you know.
I'm so proud that we are so creative Hahahha. There is normally one stand that has the loudest fans and the away fans do get roasted if they're not loud enough for there own team!
I was a bit worried when I saw you were reacting to this as you are such a nice couple, I was afraid you would be offended! Glad to see you get the very bawdy humour and banter.
One player did literally fight back. Eric Cantona flying karate kicked a fan back in the mid 90s after one made a personal insult.
Yes but he was French.
15:37 the goalies however have the advantage that the teams "change ends" at half time so they swap goals over - this evens out any imperfections or slopes in the pitch etc as each team has played one half "uphill". It also means the goalies spend half of the match at the end with the opposition fans, and half at the end with their own fans (since fans sit by team so there's less opportunity for them to fight each other inside the stadium)
People don’t practise a lot of the off-the-cuff chants, but there are a lot of very well known melodies that can use any words to become a chant. Once one guy established the words, it can catch on very quickly and because everyone knows the tune it sounds like everyone knows the song
With football they’ll have a drum to start a chant up, to get the fans fired up. Which is what the chant about eating the drum is about.
I spent my childhood going to matches listening to this, gives tiu a think skin and its light hearted and no one is offended
That was back in the old days. Now you can be arrested for anything. Another 'benefit' of 'multiculturalism'.
I remember a fan filming a sky camera man singing along with the Sky TV is f*cking shit chant, and to be fair they're not wrong🤣🤣🤣
Sky TV and the Premier League have ruined the English game.
The reason why we're into it so much is because in the UK after you're born you get taught to walk and talk etc, but the most important thing you get taught (normally through family lineage) what team you support for the entirety of you life. We get a birth certificate and a club, then we're set for life. I changed my name so when I die I'm not dying as the name on my birth certificate, birth certificates aren't certain, but one thing that is, when I die I'll die as a supporter and fan of the my club, that can't and never can be changed.
My brother taught me a song but I am of a different club to my family
@@carolinecrollick6305 Sometimes that's how it is, My grandad, uncle and aunt supported Manchester United. My mum, my Nan and all my other aunts supported Liverpool. It certainly makes things interesting doesn't it. 😂
@@wolverine9787 my cousin and brother and nephews support Leeds and I support Forest. We call it a family result. Mind you when Leeds play Derby sheep I cheer for Leeds
I am very fortunate (or unfortunate) blue blood runs through all of our veins! Everton is inherited, we are born not manufactured, we do not choose, we are chosen.
@@wolverine9787I'm a Burnley fan and my best mate supports Blackburn - derby matches are the weekends we don't go to the pub together 😂
one of the big cultural things playing out here you might be missing is that british schools (at least up till i left school like a decade ago, idk these days) very often do songs and shit in assemblies. think of it like our version of you guys doing the pledge at the start of class. assemblies is the whole school gathering often weekly for like a little presentation, and at least in primary school you all do songs during them. and its always the same songs, often with very recognisable patterns and lyrical cues. most of these chants you see in footie stem from those. nursery rhymes and common church hymns and things, these crowds take the same patterns that everyone remembers from school days. and often one dude will start off so everyone can get the words and then everyone knows how to join in. you can probably recognise most of them in this video - most of them follow the same rhythmic pattern and theres usually a few guys louder than others. its basically call and response using patterns everyone knows as the base to parody from. mix that with drunk footie fans who love taking the piss out of players, which is also a cultural pastime, and a heavy heaping off sarcasm and you get shit like this lol
Anyone planning to use public transport during a "match day", you may experience some of the fans and their culture. Makes for a very different journey. Depending on whether they are travelling to or from a match. Might be worth knowing if they won or lost the game, too. From Yorkshire
A lot of these chants are regularly re used apart from they just change names/a few words. However normally it is a small section of fans that start a chant, however once it’s started you’ll have the whole set of fans singing it. That’s the magic of it, all it takes is one person to get the whole lot of fans singing along
Never walk alone... part of any Liverpool FC game
Never Walk Alone is iconic, same with Forever Blowing Bubbles. Keep Right On is one I love too. When a team has a unique anthem that is just part of the fabric of the club, it's amazing to hear it sang by tens of thousands of people.
Jimmy Saville was a local of my city Leeds (unfortunately), so when any away teams come play at my team, Leeds united (American owned) they always chant about Jimmy Saville.. a lot of the chants on this video are replies from the Leeds fans 😂
haha, okay. Appreciate the context! :)
The chants are pretty much organic and adaptive of older chants to whatever the player has been in the news behaving badly for in his personal life
You have to bear in mind it isn't an accident that the teams are named after towns and boroughs etc. These aren't franchises that can be moved around they are rooted in communities and most of them date back to the 19C....as do the rivalries with their other local teams. Add to that a layer of "hatred" built up over 130/150 years of competition between them.... Almost all of these were from the lower tiers of the football pyramid.... Don't forget we have about six tiers of either professional or semi professional teams and below that many more layers of amateur but no less passionate clubs.
You have a similar sort of thing with the NHL, MLB and NFL, though the teams are often a lot younger than British football teams. You couldn't move most of those teams from their hometown - though some have relocated and actually done better in their new city (Dallas Stars come to mind in particular - they have an extremely dedicated fanbase in Dallas, which is amazing, love that for them!). I can't really say much on the NFL and MLB, I never got into those, but I did get into watching ice hockey, however I don't think it unlikely teams in those leagues have moved to new cities and built stronger fanbases by doing so.
Adam Johnson was guilty of sexual activity with a child, the offences happening whilst his partner was pregnant with or had just given birth to his child.
You know when a football match is really boring, when the Barnsley fans prefer to wear a plant pot on their heads
Jimmy Saville was accused by many many people of sexual assault when they were kids just after he died - this led to a massive police operation (Operation Yewtree) which uncovered other celebrities who had done similar things, and really opened people's eyes to what the culture around this kind of abuse was in the 1970s/80s. Saville was a children's TV presenter and through this had unrestricted access to a number of children whom he abused in several settings, such as hospitals, care homes, orphanages etc as well as inside TV studios and dressing rooms etc. People at the time knew about what he and others like him were doing but they either couldn't do anything about it as he was a famous star and they wouldn't be listened to, or they chose to ignore it.
Surprised your explanatory comment is still here---- a comment of mine elsewhere, only mentioning his connection to children's homes was deleted!!!
@@laragaraSometimes your comment is there but UA-cam won't allow you to see it.
Love your channel keep working hard pumping out these great and interesting videos
You two are great! I love your curiosity and your reactions to our sometimes weird culture. You reply to people who answer your questions. Not many reaction vloggers do that. ❤
When I go to a football match all that swearing and just horribleness is just normal
Yeah they can be out there lol. Your expressions are priceless lol.
Definitely gets colourful at the football 😂😂 haven't been to a match for years but was plenty of songs going back and forth lol was at Stamford bridge Chelsea v Leicester in league cup and a 4-3 result😊
It would be a memorable experience for us Americans, that's for sure! haha
HOW CAN YOU SUBJECT FO INNOCENT LINDSAY TO THIS. Her face at that first one was classic she was not prepared at all.
Hahaha, true. I think she got into the spirit of it though.
Most of us brits grow up singing the same hymns/songs over and over again in assembly in the mornings at school, so a lot of the group singing comes from that. Some of the chants are to tunes of popular songs but a lot are to to the tune of the hymns we used to sing as kids.
We’re very proud of our chants, it’s all about the witty banter and put downs
This is tame. A lot of the teams in this video are lower league teams with smaller crowds.
The players have thick skin, and so has the ref. They receive worse than this on match days.
I, personally, love it. You can't beat watching your team play and having a few beers and singsong/chant with your fellow fans.
You are right. There are chants out there that would get the poster banned for life on UA-cam.
In terms of how we know the words, there are only a handful of tunes and they are very repetitive, so when someone starts a chant it can be picked up very easily.
That makes sense! Good system 😂
In England when we say were going to church we are referring to our football stadium
Aye, where we get charged a fortune to watch foreign mercenaries who couldn't care less about our clubs, our fans, or our towns and cities, fall over.
Some say football is a matter of life or death. I can assure you that it's more important than that!!
- Bill Shankley. Liverpool.
Having seen what the TV companies and 'multiculturalism' have done to the English game, I wonder if he'd say that now.
That is a safe assumption.
It's just banter, raises the atmosphere to an awesome level 👌 Like u said, community spirit 👍 Love u guys.....keep doing what yr doing 🌟😊
the pot plant one nearly killed me!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I'm glad you enjoyed it there's a lot of swearing in these chants there are other compilations that are cleaner.
Cleaner is not an accurate representation though
Have you listened to the songs associated with football teams in the UK?
West Ham has ‘I’m forever blowing bubbles’.
Liverpool has ‘You’ll never walk alone” but it used to be ‘She loves You’ at the height of Beatlemania.
Hearts (Heart of Midlothian from Edinburgh) has ‘Hearts, Hearts, glorious Hearts’
And their city rivals Hibs, (Hibernian) have ‘Sunshine on Leith’ by The Proclaimers. And when they ring the lyrics
The Chief,
they are referencing GOD.
you two are such an awesome couple to watch and very very funny too Loved your reaction to the videos 😂😂😂 Best American youtubers I've seen soo far well you both are 😃👍😍
Thank you! Appreciate you :)
‘Fergie’ is Sir Alexander Ferguson CBE - Scottish former football manager and player, best known for managing Manchester United from 1986 to 2013. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time and has won more trophies than any other manager in the history of football.
Fergie in that context, was his son Darren, manager of Peterborough at the time
@@tomfenlon8567Sorry, I thought Alex would of been mentioned a few times during their video. I only saw about 2 minutes
The chant is about Alex Ferguson's son Darren who was accused of assaulting his wife. The chant "your dad's a c*nt and so are you" was also aimed at Darren (and Alex) Ferguson.
@@tomfenlon8567 didn't he rape or beat his girlfreind
Sir Alex may be bad tempered but that chat wasn’t about him … and he’s been married happily for decades!!!
I am a huge football fan. My Gooner grandad took me to Highbury when I was 6 years old and I've loved it since. The crowds definitely add to the atmosphere. Also the personal ones mostly have nuggets of a truth.
Adam Johnson - Sentenced just 2 miles down the road from me in Bradford to 6 years in prison.
Why does that matter? @@ebbhead20
It tends to be the fans behind the goal ends that get into this the most.
The die hard away fans. Rain or shine they'll follow their teams to the moon and back.
At 7:28 It actually turned into a verse from "Glad all over" by 'Dave Clark Five'. All off the cuff improvisation. If one guy starts a good one, everybody else will naturally join in and with a 90 minute match, you gotta keep it fresh or mix it up, or it's gonna get old.
Ive seen these and more dozens of times and still pmsl..
But waching both your reactions is priceles 🤣🤣🤣
Back in the day we all had to sing together every morning in school assembly up and down these islands. It was the same on the terraces. Some witty sod will come up with a few relevant lyrics and it will spread. We are used to it and a lot of the tunes are already known. Loved seeing your reaction
They are mainly organic. Anyone can be a target, players, managers, referees, stewards or just an unfortunate member of the crowd. And if you can chuck a few swear words in there then so much the better.
Football was hardly ever watched in our house. None of us were really interested.
My brothers and dad preferred motorbikes, cars, aeroplanes and fishing. 🙂
You don't think, having watched this video, they, and possibly yourself, missed out? Even just to experience such unity and passion just once?
2:00 Adam history is real!!!
Definitely not unexpected + Brit humour, if someone like a player, manager or linked to the club misbehaves/gets in the news, the other team's supporters are definitely going to chant about it.
I know a few other channels have done it, but Welcome to Wrexham about the Welsh team that got bought by Ryan Reynolds and Rob McIlheney is a) a pretty decent intro to football b) pretty heartwarming and a really decent look into a town that's had a hard time economically. Most teams that have played against Wrexham have some kind of chant about Reynolds and not complimentary 😂
My favourite was the toon's chant for the great David Ginola to the tune of the Kink's "Lola" subtle and hilarious. 🙂
3:25 a lot of the songs are spontaneous but you'll notice throughout the video that a lot of them contain the following elements:
1. A recognisable "tune" which everyone knows already (like "When Johnny comes marching home" or "Kumbyah" etc)
2. Repetetive lines which are easy to remember
3. Words which fit the beat
A significant proportion of chants are well known though and will feature heavily - some of them hang around a player for their entire career, some of them stay for a few weeks, some have been going on for years and years.
The thing that I imagine will shock you guys from the US even more is the reason we can all sing along to a lot of these chants is because a lot of them are based on hymns we sung in school lmao.
A few buses? The home stand behind a goal would hold an aversge of 6000 fans, my team has a stadium capzcity of zbout 25,000 of which 2,500 tickets are allocsted to away supporters. Most chants are made to well known tunes, most indultz are topical. Many teams have passionate song which you should check out. Such as Liverpool F.C. Kop simging 'You'l never walk alone', West Bromwich Albion fans singing 'The Lords my shepherd , or Bristol Rovers singing 'Goodnight Eileen'.
It's all part of the identity of a club.
Bristol Rovers sing Goodnight Irene, I'll see you in my dreams
@@carefreescot sorry Goodnight Irene was what I intended to put, memories of some happy yimes st Eastville watching the Gas, also watchinv Bristol Bulkfogs Speedway back in the day.
@@RobertLloyd-f3p
I wondered at first if you'd got confused with Dexys song, thinking of the bib & brace fashion.
I went in the old Tote End a few times back in the 70's, also visited City and Swindon as I lived in the Cotswolds for a while, but my heart has always been with a current Premier League club.
@@carefreescot I am a Black Country bloke and support West Bromwich Albion. But I always had a soft spot for Bristol Rovers.
You gotta admit it’s funny. Watching your reaction had me in stitches. Look up Jimmy saville though. In England we take the piss out of each other a lot so it’s all fun, mostly. At least it used to be
"Do they rehearse it beforehand?"
As an English football fan I can attest that any kid who likes football learns to join in a chant by the age of 8. Just takes one guy to come up with a good / funny chant and he'll shout it out, 5 or 6 people around him will pick it up and shout it too. Then 20 - 40 people will pick it up and it escalates like that, before long thousands will be chanting.
In England, football is a religion. In France, football is not a religion. It's wine and food. - Robert Pires
3:40 it's half and half.
There are constant melodies that people know and then all you need is a few innovative folk to start a chant
lolol funny reaction lol cheers.
"The Kiddy Family" (sung to the tune of "The Addams Family") is _my favourite_ chant, but I do know most of the tunes they sing, and the words are easily picked up!! And, I dont even watch football or have a specific team I follow - despite Cyrstal Palace probably being my nearest team...just a bus ride away! 🤭
as a 58 year old scouser and follower of LFC all me life i can sum up British Football like this
a boss day out following the reds begins the night before, getting your match clobber on.
Up early LFC v THFC
440 mile round trip on a coach. All getting more and more pissed
90 minutes and hopefully a win and then off home. all the time singing funny and abusive
Ill leave you with this
in football, you don’t have to be fat to be called fat bastard. we just know it hurts 😂
Ohhhhh no, the whole crowd gets going on some of these lol... would love to take you guys to a Villa game, most of our chants get taken and sang all over the place
Regarding the effect chants have on players, Nottingham forest had a fairly good striker and his career fell off a cliff because fans chanting about his hair got under his skin so much. It even spread to tv comics making fun of him.
Great reaction here guys.
With regards to the expression 'noncing' from the first chant (re Adam Johnson)
Im not sure if it's been mentioned already in the comments but the term 'nonce' which is used to refer to a paedophile or someone who convicted for harming children, is originally a prison acronym in the UK, standing for 'Not On Normal Courtyard Exercise'.
This is because people have convicted of such crimes are the ones more likely to be attacked by other inmates while in jail.
Your point about getting involved when attending live sports is so true. Whether I'm at a racecourse or a motor racing track, cheering my sons or grandsons at lacrosse, swim meets, football, CFL, rugby, or even athletics or hockey, it's easy to become hyped by the atmosphere. The only exception for me is basketball, which I find too repetitive. I get hyped watching eventing and taikwando meets too, but there it is more restrained.
The Adam johnoson reference, is true, it was i think a 15 year old, he played for my team sunderland, the fans singing, are our arch rivals newcastle, he did go to prison
I suspect that's a typo, he was found guilty of sexual activity with a 15 year old girl (the age of consent in the UK is 16).
@@allanmanaged5285 yes was a typo, the number 5 sticks on my keyboard, its old lap top, i have a new lap top, but still like my old one, , corrected typo, thanks
Best part about football is winding up football fans, i have my home team that i follow but i couldnt careless but i can use my limited knowledge to wind people up 😂
The chants are taken very seriously and rehearsals are well attended and held most Saturdays. Sometimes a few people have a game of football.
Love that your American and england speaks the same language no need for the subtitles unless the accents get you😂
the goalie they were calling "fattie" was their own goalie 🤣
Football is our holy grail. Our football firms are like no other. Our football firms are each extreme supporters of each club
The crowd is the twelfth player "on" the pitch during the match; and yes it is expected!
I laughed all the way through it was funny 😂😂😂
Great channel and lovely couple. A touch of direction for future viewing. There were 4 massive stories to come out of England and are a 'must watch' to know some of Britains dark side...
Jimmy Saville
Dr Harold Shipman
The moors murders
Peter Sutcliffe The ripper
No heroes here but had a huge impact on life in England.....
Keep the good work up guys 👏👏👏😎
Great video guys
Funny thing is some of these are really tame 😂
Personal attacks? Its England!!!. All of them are crazy n nothing is a big deal😂😂😂
7:20 They aren't "being mean". This is British humour, banter. You break each other down for fun. All is fun and games but you dig the knife in and twist it. But they all stand for the National team in the end.
The chants are crazy. My son is a huge football fan ( Arsenal) He even runs a successful ig page. He often makes up chants and they actually get used at the games. I will point out they aren’t quite like the ones in this video 😮 They are actually positive ones to popular song tunes
I loved your channel, but it is so good with Lindsay involved. I hope I spelt your name correctly.
"It was ... It was.... Yeah" 😂😂😂
Imagine getting your phone out and doing some research... Wow... That could bring a new level of knowledge to things.