Chants with ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ used to be the main ones everyone joined in with. And we used to have loads of them with those words in:
Oh City We Love You
Oh Man City, The Only Football Team To Come From Manchester
City, We’re From Manchester (Go West)
Blue Moon
I said Blue Moon
We’re The Pride Of Manchester
Na na na na na na na na City (Hey Jude)
City City, The Best Team In The Land And All The World
City ’Til I Die
We All Follow Man City, Over Land And Sea
You are my City, my only City
Oh when the Blues go marching in
We are City from Maine Road
Come on City
City-City-City-City
Who are we? Blue Army
City, We’re On The Piss Again
We’re City, We’re Barmy, We’re Off Our Fucking Heads
Oh Manchester, Is Wonderful
Singing The Blues
…plus many many more
Blue Moon, Hey Jude and The Best Team In The Land And All The World used to be the three chants that felt like everyone in the stadium used to join in with. Hey Jude is never sung during a game anymore and barely anyone even joins in with it as the team come out, Brentford put us to shame with that now yet that’s been our chant since the 60s. City Til I Die is another one that we made up in the 90s, that’s our chant, and it’s not been sung in the stadium for about 15, maybe 20 years.
We bark Blue Moon out these days rather than sing it. If you ever watch the 2000 Blackburn away promotion game back, have a listen to how tuneful we used to sing it.
My Father used to tell me that decades ago we used to chant Ciiity Ciiity Ciiiity Ciiiity Ciiity over and over (a bit like the start of TBTITLAATW, but in a slightly lower key, or how we chant City-City-City now but much longer notes) and it used to be deafening as it was easy to join in with.
Now it’s all player chants. Which are great and all that, but not as good as singing about City, especially at 0-0 or we’re losing and the team needs a lift, or the player is not on the pitch. In any of those situations I’ve noticed that most people don’t bother joining in with player chants.
You never hear the Eurovision Ultras singing player chants, they solely sing their team names.
At Anfield and Wembley, Liverpool fans solely sing their anthems.
They never sing niche songs or new songs, they are solely left for away games, Boss Nights and pubs.
Liverpool always seem to outnoise us at Wembley (and Leicester) because everyone knows the words to the songs they sing. It’s why they always had the best atmosphere for big games at Anfield (somewhat dying a bit these days).
Look at a big Leeds game - they sing the same half a dozen songs about Leeds all game.
Look at all our best atmospheres over the last decade, most of the time it isn’t even singing that makes the atmosphere good, it’s everyone being involved in the game, but when songs do start, it’s always the classics/anthems that most join in with.
And anthems don’t have to be old songs. We can make up new anthems, but they will always be ones that have ‘City’ ‘Man City’ ‘Manchester’ ‘Manchester City’ ‘Blues’ ‘Blue’ in the song.
