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A football chant or terrace chant is a form of vocalisation performed by supporters of association football, typically during football matches. Football chanting is an expression of collective identity, most often used by fans to express their pride in the team they support, or to encourage them, and to celebrate a particular player or manager.
Here We Go (football chant) Honey (L'Arc-en-Ciel song) Hot Shot Tottenham! Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song) (How Does It Feel to Be) On Top of the World; Hurry Up England;
Fussball Ist Unser Leben by 1974 West Germany national football team (1974) Ole Ole Ole by The Fans; World Cup Fanfare by Werner Drexler (1974) Lu Lu Lu Lukas Podolski Song (2010) Zlatan song by Sanjin and Youthman(2017) 11 kleine Spanier (2010) Zelena je trava by Trawa jest zielona (2010) ¡Podemos España! (2008) Toco y me voy by Bersuit ...
The song itself is a plaintive rally-cry by the fans of Sheffield United. It is usually heard at the start of home games played at 'Beautiful Downtown Bramall Lane ' (as it is often called by the announcer on match days), the home of the club, and sporadically throughout away matches.
At college football games, the schools' marching bands often add stadium anthems to their repertoires. In baseball, many stadium anthems are used as entrance music for various ballplayers. For example, AC/DC's "Hells Bells" was the entrance music for Trevor Hoffman and Metallica's "Enter Sandman" filled the same role for Mariano Rivera.
The Football Association (FA) asked Lightning Seeds songwriter Ian Broudie to compose a song for the 1996 UEFA European Football Championship. [5] He composed a melody he felt would make a good football chant, and asked the comedians Frank Skinner and David Baddiel, presenters of the football comedy show Fantasy Football League, to write the lyric.
Spurred on to make that prophecy a reality, he got to work recording a new, football themed version of his song, then waited outside the BBC Radio One studio to ambush breakfast host Chris Moyles ...
The writer of the song is often attributed to Albert T Smith who became a director of Norwich City in 1905 after the club was founded in 1902, [3] and the song was adopted by fans of the club. [4] It is sung pre-match at Carrow Road and throughout the games that Norwich City play, home and away.