My Favourite Football Chants

This is a tribute to the masses of football fans around the globe. The creativity of fans to hector and heckle the opposition, fans, and players in displays of mass spontaneity is genuinely something to behold.

Some of these songs are funny, some are definitely offensive, and often they perfectly pin down a devotion to club and country.

Here are my personal favourites, but you all might have different ones. Please comment and tell me the best one you have heard at a football game.

WARNING: Some language in the chants may offend some people.

Poor Old Alan Shearer

(Tune of Daydream Believer)
"Cheer up Alan Shearer, Oh what can it be? To a sad Geordie bastard and his shite football team"

When I first heard it just made me smile!

Not very popular with the Toon Army at all. This song must have been a bitter thing to take having just been relegated, especially for someone as devoted to Newcastle as Alan Shearer.

But this song perfectly emulates a creativity from fans and being a Hull fan I just could resist putting it in.

The Naughty Referee

"The ref-erees a wanker! The referees a wanker!"

Nothing can better project a fan's utter distaste for the officials of the game better than a short, sharp classic. Not very witty but still very very very funny.

On a more thoughtfull note another, subtler song would be:

"1-0! To the referee, 1-0! to the referee"

Pompey Chimes

When Portsmouth played Hull at the KC stadium these few words really dominated the afternoon.

"Play up Pompey, Pompey play up!"

Repeated over and over again the Hull fans soon came up with a counter.

"You've only got one song! You've only got one so-ong!"

Whatever it was there was a really special fan atmosphere as the two sets of fans tried to out-do each other.

Whats the Score?

"_____ Whats the score? _____ _____ Whats the score?"

Nothing can rub a poor result in a manager's face like thousands of fans reminding him of it every few minutes in deafening fashion.

Really it adds insult to injury.

But what best describes a fan's wry humour even in the bleakest situation other than this:

(When losing 3-0 and just scoring)
"We're gunna win 4-3, we're gunna win 4-3, we're gunna win 4-thre-eee"

Local Level

At the end of the day the chants and songs that have the most resonance with clubs are ones that have sprung up locally.

It may be a particular song attached to the club over the years and have a significant meaning to the club or even a song attached to a well-loved player.

These are the ones that truly mean something to the fans.

As a Hull fan, the song that I grew up singing at Boothferry Park and now the KC was "Take my Hand" by Elvis.

But I'm interested, what are the songs that means the most to you as a fan?