Drumming up support

[DLT]

I normally like them.But they have to be 'amateur', if you know what I mean.

In a modern stadium the chances of a Knappy 'sucking' everyone in behind are remote.

But there again I loved 'Pigbag' at Middlesboro. Even if I heard it too often.

Done well things like that add to atmosphere.As long as the fans are willing tofollow the lead.

[Snake]

We have a lot of divvy fans, who sing too many songs about hating this that and the other. I prefer songs supporting our team, or at least being amusing about the opposition, not just rude and insulting.

This is becoming a trend certainly in the lower leagues . I noticed last night that Bristol City fans at the Riverside spent most of their time chanting such things as &quotAre you Rovers in disguise&quot, &quotPremiership? your having a laugh&quot and hardly anything positive to support their own team.

For our fans what's the point of chanting &quotwe hate Slumdon&quot away at somewhere like Stafford or Stevenage, or even at home for that matter? All it does is highlight the fact that we're not good enough to play them anymore.

I dug out Desmond Morris's &quotSoccer Tribe&quot to look at the analysis of Oxford chants from almost 30 years ago. Interestingly there was no category for chants specifically aimed at local rivals but there was one aimed directly at the opposition. (60 out of 251 different chants for the period studied). The most interesting facts compared to today was the number and variety of chants. On average at each Oxford game there was a massive 145 chants per game made up of an average 67 DIFFERENT chants per match! If you told that to the youth of today ........... [cut to Monty Python sketch with old men wearing flat caps]

So we used to have 67 different chants in one game.

How many can we come up with on here that are in REGULAR use, let alone all sung in the same match?

I’ll start with

1 Come on you Yellows
2 Come on Oxford
3 Yellows, Yellows
4 We hate Slumdon and we hate Slumdon
5 Stand up if you hate Slumdon
6 Na na na na na na na O-U-F-C
7 In the mixer
8 Jim Smith’s Yellow Army
9 Forever and ever, we’ll follow our team
10 My garden shed
11 You’ve never won f*** all
12 Score in a minute
13 The referee’s a w*****
14 You haven’t got a clue
15 Come in a taxi
16 Is that all you take away
17 Give us an “O

[Pe├▒a Oxford United]

Incidentally, nobody at SD Huesca chants at all.

[SmileyMan]

... but how about a little competition to see if anyone can come up with something funny and catchy by Saturday ...

He stands up front and name is Duffy
His skin is soft and his hair is fluffy
But he can have his way with my missus' m*ffy
If he just scores one more goal, goal goal!

Not one for the family section, I'll admit......

[Radley Rambler]

We have a lot of divvy fans, who sing too many songs about hating this that and the other. I prefer songs supporting our team, or at least being amusing about the opposition, not just rude and insulting.

This is becoming a trend certainly in the lower leagues . I noticed last night that Bristol City fans at the Riverside spent most of their time chanting such things as &quotAre you Rovers in disguise&quot, &quotPremiership? your having a laugh&quot and hardly anything positive to support their own team.

For our fans what's the point of chanting &quotwe hate Slumdon&quot away at somewhere like Stafford or Stevenage, or even at home for that matter? All it does is highlight the fact that we're not good enough to play them anymore.

I dug out Desmond Morris's &quotSoccer Tribe&quot to look at the analysis of Oxford chants from almost 30 years ago. Interestingly there was no category for chants specifically aimed at local rivals but there was one aimed directly at the opposition. (60 out of 251 different chants for the period studied). The most interesting facts compared to today was the number and variety of chants. On average at each Oxford game there was a massive 145 chants per game made up of an average 67 DIFFERENT chants per match! If you told that to the youth of today ........... [cut to Monty Python sketch with old men wearing flat caps]

So we used to have 67 different chants in one game.

How many can we come up with on here that are in REGULAR use, let alone all sung in the same match?

I’ll start with

1 Come on you Yellows
2 Come on Oxford
3 Yellows, Yellows
4 We hate Slumdon and we hate Slumdon
5 Stand up if you hate Slumdon
6 Na na na na na na na O-U-F-C
7 In the mixer
8 Jim Smith’s Yellow Army
9 Forever and ever, we’ll follow our team
10 My garden shed
11 You’ve never won f*** all
12 Score in a minute
13 The referee’s a w*****
14 You haven’t got a clue
15 Come in a taxi
16 Is that all you take away
17 Give us an “O

[GodalmingYellow]

You're sh*t and you know you are
Its 12 against 11
1-0 to the referee
Oi Duffer you lazy git (OK not a chant but frequently shouted
South stand south stand give us a song
We are top of the league
Score in a brothel

[SteMerritt]

Sit down shut up
Build A Bonfire

[boris]

Super super Rob, super super Rob, super Robby Duffy (that one's for Terry!)
Doo doo do do Andy Burgess
Yemi Yemi Yemi Oi Oi Oi
Come on come on, come on come on, come on come on come on OXFORD
The Carneval de Paris one
Na na na na-na-na-na Oxford (to the tune of Hey Jude)
Oxford, oxford, oxford, oxford (to the tune of Amazing Grace)
You are my Oxford, my only Oxford, you make me happy when skies are grey
Oh Billy billy, billy billy billy billy billy Turley
We love you Oxford, we do
I'm Oxford til I die (even if they do sing crap weak wrong words)
Run from the ****, you even run from the ****
Slumdon, Slumdon run, Slumdon, Slumdon run, Slumdon, Slumdon run, Slumdon run from Oxford
If I see you on the corner with a red scarf round your neck
She wore, she wore, she wore a yellow ribbon


Ones they used to sing but don't anymore:
Walk on
We hate Nottingham Forest, we hate Arsenal too (and Tottenham)...
Bertie Mee said to Bill Shankly...
In the northern slums
Ooh Johnny Lager, ooh Johnny Lager
Johnny, Johnny Shuker, ooh ooh
Brian, Brian Heron, Brian Heron on the wing
A-G A-G-R A-G-R-O AGGRO
Oxford aggro, Oxford aggro, hello, hello
We are unbeatable, we are unbeatable....

[boris]

More:
clap clap, clap clap clap, clap clap clap-clap Oxford
United clap-clap-clap
Slumdon Town is falling down, falling down, falling down
Come and join us, come and join us, come and join us over here
Is that all you take away
You're supposed to be at home
What a load of rubbish
You'll never take the Manor (oops, they already have)
Shall we sing a song for you
Sing when you're winning
Horton/Smith/Kemp/Talbot/etc Out

[Ancient Colin]

Sh!t ground, no fans ...
Who are you, who are you ...

Anyone keeping a count?

[Baboo]

Come and have a go if you think you’re hard enough.

We’ll be running round the goalie with our willies hanging out singing I’ve got a bigger one than you.

If I had the wings of a sparrow …...

Ohhh it’s a corner

Then then was the one to the theme of Streets of Laredo …… I spied a young Slumdon fan …. Can’t remember the words.

And in more recent times – “It’s just like watching Rose Hill

[boris]

You thought you had scored, you were wrong.
The Great Escape theme tune one
How wide do you want the goal?
etc

[YF Dan]

Let's at least dreg up some good old songs if we're going to play this game.

Personal favourites:

We'll win again, don't know where, don't know when, but I know we'll win again when Kemp is out.

Der der-der-der- der-der-der- de der der CUSACK!

He'll have a pint and he'll have a fight, David David Rush

and my one that never caught on (to the tune from the Bodyform advert)

Whooaaaaaaaaaaah Bobby Ford, Bobby Ford for U's.

[Ancient Colin]

Can we play you every week?
The clowns theme ...

[boris]

More individual players' songs:
Danny Brown, Danny Danny Brown, dan-da-dan da-dan da-dan-dan-dan
Woah Chrissy Hackett
I like to Moody Moody, I like to Moody Moody, I like to Moody Moody, I like to, MOODY
Tommy Mooney's Yellow and Blue
Alex Dyer my lord, Alex Dyer
Rambo's gonna get you, Rambo's gonna get you, la-la la la

Others:
Chim chiminee chim chiminee chim-chim cheroo, we are the bastards in Yellow and Blue
Yippee tie-oh, yippie tie-ay, there's a hippy on the pitch today
Greeebo (one for Grebis)
Let's go fuckin mental (or let's all have a disco, whatever)
and a blast from the past:
Give us an A, give us a C, give us an I, give us a D, what have you got? Aceeeeeed