Songs you don't hear anymore (some for obvious reasons!)

[BrianW]

Toodle ooodle ooodle oo
Who the fucking hell are you?

At one time sung at the opposition as they came out. (And occasionally at City by mistake when they played at home in the away strip, as sometimes happened in those days.) Circa 1965-66.

 

[liamctid]

There's quite a lot mentioned on here which still get sung.

The 'Martin Edwards has got AIDS' was sang for about 10 minutes on repeat in Milan the night before Juventus.

Someone mentioned

We've got an M an A an N
a City an I T Y
we've got the greatest football team that money couldn't buy
we come from Maine Road, Manchester
and City is our name
Ciiiity is our name.

There's another version of that, which spells something else...

 

[mat]

We've got Terry Phelan.....

 

[mancityvstoke]

shan na na na na summerbee

who the fuckin hell is he

the greatest player in history

 

[Kippax.]

City till I die!

 

[Dr Mick]

To the tune of Tom Hark.
"Burnley sing but we don't know why cos after the match yer going to die"

Burnley 0 - 1 City FA cup third round. Colin Hendry got booed by Burnley fans every time he touched the ball and went on the score the winner.

This was the game of 'wooooooosssssshhhh' when ever one of their players hoofed the ball.

 

[Deleted member 14625]

In the period before Maine Road City fans also used to shout things like "Play Up City!" and also "Give It To Tommy [Johnson]"

I also have notes saying that City fans sang "Auld Lang Syne" on occasion in the 20s (presumably around New Year?) and I also know from research that if a player got married during the 1920s City fans would sing "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow" when he came on to the pitch.

In the 50s there was the City version of "Bless 'em All" and a song called "City Is The Team". Also I included a story in "Farewell To Maine Road" that included a quote from a fan who claimed that City fans used to shout when Dave Ewing did a good header "There's only one head bigger than Dave Ewing and that's Birkenhead!" - I don't know how popular this actually was though!

I also talk in that book about how City fans had stunned Utd fans in 1993 by singing "17 years and we're still here" - how time flies!

Back at Hyde Road in the 1890s journalists often talked of Hyde Road's 'Electric atmosphere' - considering how 'new' (you know what I mean) electricity was at the time this was highly significant and they basically meant that Hyde Rd's atmoshere was something exciting and powerful. Fans used to take musical instruments and wear fancy dress to liven up games in the 1890s.

I've read a few books about Victorian Manchester. Jospeh O'Neill and Andrew David touch on Scuttler gangs in Manchester going to football matches. They showed off their fashions of brass-toe cloggs, 14" bell bottom trousers, silk scarves and donkey fringes. Phil Thornton has a book talking about how football casuals originated from the Shed End and Scousers coming back from Europe with their Fila and Sergio Tacchini trackies. But its origins surely date back to Mancunians, and at Hyde Road watching Manchester City?!

Also the scuttlers used to meet rival local gangs to fight each other at the football, well before those in the 60's and 70's who post on here and tell us young'ens we know nothing. But that's another subject.

I bet football stadiums back then were a really lively, enjoyable and dangerous place. Like you say "electric".

 

[Deleted member 14625]

Sunderland always claimed 'Niall Quinn's Disco Pants' but I'm sure I remember us singing that before he went there?

Or have I just made that up?

Absolutely 100% ours first!

 

[davymcfc]

after we played sporting lokeren we used to do a little chant which was quite fun and people waved their scaves. it would be good if we did the poznan to that tune.

 

[Impeccable]

John Bond we love you
John Bond we do
Even when you're far away we'll still love you
And one day when we're older, we'll look back and say
There's no one quite like John Bond he has helped us on our way

(never did like him or the song though)

That bit of the song actually said 'And one day when we're champions,...'