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Liverpool fans used it as a football chant to honour their player Ian St John in the 1960s, a song that was also adopted by other clubs. [1] Southampton Football Club, for example, use it as a football chant as their nickname is The Saints; other football clubs use different variations of the song. It may be used with the standard lyrics ...
The chants may also be in a call-and-response format. For example, Chile national football team fans will do a routine whereby one group of fans will chant "Chi-Chi-Chi", and another group will respond "Le-Le-Le". [42] For the Indonesia national football team one group of fans will chant "In-Do-Ne-Sia" with an air horn and hand clap in response ...
[25] [26] [27] Liverpool fans may have been introduced the chant when they used it for their star player Ian St John in the 1960s. [28] However, Southampton fans claimed to have used it in the 1950s. [citation needed] A version with edited lyrics is used as the club song for the St Kilda Football Club that compete in the Australian Football League.
It came after two United supporters were arrested in connection with chants relating to the 1989 Hillsborough disaster, which led to the deaths of 97 Liverpool fans.
The mother of a young Liverpool fan whose guitar-playing and football chants have made him famous online has said she thought it was a "prank" when the club contacted her with an invitation to ...
The Fields of Anfield Road is a football song sung by supporters of Liverpool Football Club. It proceeds to the tune of The Fields of Athenry; composed by singer-songwriter Pete St. John in 1979. Before being adapted by Liverpool supporter Edward R Williams from Poulton, Wirral who sent in his original version to LFC.
The song perhaps first gained a wider audience at the 1965 FA Cup final at Wembley Stadium, when the singing by supporters of Liverpool F.C. was broadcast on TV and radio. Noticing the Queen had a red jacket on (Liverpool's team colours), the words were hastily changed to "Ee aye addio, the Queen's wearing red!".
The chant by Porto fans going to a UEFA Europa League match in 2016 against Borussia Dortmund was noticed by Liverpool fans, who created their own version as "Allez Allez Allez". Jamie Webster , who heard the chant during Liverpool's match against Porto, then sang and recorded a version.