Favourite Football Chant?

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    Al The Gooner
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    Read an entertaining article the other day, where Gooners in the media wrote about their favourite Arsenal chants. No surprise that many of the chants listed went back to the days of terracing, when there seemed to be a new song almost every week, every first team player had one and there was a lot more thought and wit that went into them.

    That said, my personal favourite was “we’ve got Dennis Bergkamp”. No humour and it didn’t even have a tune, just a very simple statement of fact to the rest of the football world – and it was a lot of fun reminding them, especially after he’d just made a mockery of an oppositions defence.

    Another favourite was Petit’s “he’s blond, he’s quick, he’s named after a porno flick, Emmanuel! Emmanuel!”, but I think most of my faves involved taking the piss out of our success-challenged neighbours from up the Seven Sisters – and there were a lot of those.

    How about you guys? Favourite all time Arsenal chant? It’s hard to pick, isn’t it?

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    muffler_1
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    Yes it is now my favorite is Wenger Out though? But joke aside My favourite was Petit one though.

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    Gooner54
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    I remember. “He’s here, he’s there, he’s every F****ing where, Bobby Gould, Bobby Gould. Got the North bank chucked out the “choir” competitions every time.
    Good days, before many of you youngsters time.
    When we called the players, George Graham would pretend to not hear us. Until the boo from the Gooners. A game we played every game. John Radford, George Armstrong, Bob Mcnab, Peter Story, Bob Wilson, Ian Ure (Went to United). Remember beating united 3-0 on boxing day when George Best played, I know a united player, but that boy was class. Respect.

    Miss the North bank, always in my heart.

    Gooner for life.

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    steveosnakeeye
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    Super, Super Dav!
    Super, Super Dav, Super Davor Suker!

    (sure there was more to that or am I wrong?)

    loved Suker though even for the small time he was with us

    #1497774
    Al The Gooner
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    Haha, Gooner, gotta say, you do make me feel like a youngster when you start talking about George Graham as a player – I was 3 years old when we won our first Double. Then again, I probably remember more about that one than the next two, by which time I’d discovered the joys of alcohol.

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    Al The Gooner
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    Steveo, there were a few players with that tune (Anders Limpar and Kevin Campbell, of course) but I can’t remember there being more to the song. Doesn’t mean there wasn’t (there are moths with better memories than me).

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    Yep Al, was a school boy myself. Still learnt the “joys” of Double diamond with my uncle who made sure we were guided to the correct London club, and local pub. In mitigation, we did go to all the other grounds to see them, but once an Arsenal fan, always an Arsenal fan.

    Gooner for life.

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    Jeff
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    Mine was “Brady, Brady, Brady, Brady- born is the King of Highbury.” One of the all time greats, who was one of the best players ever seen in our League. I still feel that he did not get the recognition he deserved, probably as he wasn’t English and at the time, Arsenal were not considered glamorous. He got the Players Player of the Year in 1979, but was beaten to the Journos award by Dalglish, who was very good and played for Liverpool, who were the best team around. Still disagree with that- Brady was better, went to Juve and won the title for them for the first time in ages. Dalglish played in a great team, which he embellished, but a notch below Chippy in my opinion!

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    steve68
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    i’m with jeff on this one.brady was an awesome player and man
    utd didn’t offer to make him the highest payed player for
    nothing.thankfully the great man didn’t do a stapleton and
    jump ship to utd and went to the biggest club in italy where
    i believe he scored the penalty to make them champions.

    loved the dennis bergkamp chant but i do like the one about
    super rob too.stevie bould having no hair aint a bad one
    either.so many though.

    #1498237
    Al The Gooner
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    Haha – Steve, there was one poster on here who I could have predicted what their favourite chant would be and that was you and Liam Brady. I think we’re about the same age but I didn’t really get into football until my mid-teens, by which time Liam was long gone.

    I do remember how crazy my dad and four older siblings were about him though and now I love watching the few Youtube clips that exist of him – even I could talk someone through that goal against the Scum.

    PS Anyone noticed how so many of our best players’ best goals are against that lot?

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    steve68
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    hi Al.loved brady since i was a nipper and while i never
    got to see him live or hear the fans sing his song,i’ve
    met a lot of gooners since then who told me everything
    i thought and love about him was spot on.brady,adams
    and the great rocky,rocky rocastle will always be the
    best 3 players to have come through the ranks.what we
    could do with them 3 today,mate.

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    fatmop
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    There’s only one Arsene Wenger? ?

    I personally liked Boom Boom let everybody say Keown, Keown! – should have been sung more.

    We’ve got Slyvinho, you’ve got our stereo (sung at anfield) made me laugh and Freddie’s was good: We love you Freddie, cos you got red(later no)hair, we love Freddie cos you’re everywhere, we love you Freddie, cos you’re arsenal through and through.

    I really liked when all of Highbury shouted Nigel Winterburn, Nigel Winterburn over and over again – the simplicity was brilliant. Though I’m with others Petit’s is probably the best.

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    Al The Gooner
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    Fatmop, your memory is failing you old chap (happens to me all the time, so don’t worry) but Winterburn’s chant was to the tune of Middle of the Road’s “Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep”. Like you though, also one of my faves for it’s simplicity but then Nige is one of my all time favorite Gunners – I’m not sure there’s ever been a more consistent player in the history of football. Don’t remember him ever having even a slightly off game, let alone a bad one.

    I haven’t heard that Sylvino one before – made me chuckle – but it did remind me of some of the songs we used to sing to Liverpool and also reminded me how much we used to hate them. These days, out of the so-called top six, I think I’d prefer them to see them successful than any other team (apart from us, of course).

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    Yeah my memory fails me a lot but still it was just Nigel Winterburn right? Sung in tune off course!

    It is strange the mutual respect that seems to be between us and Liverpool. I guess because we both try to play football and don’t have sugar daddy owner but be then we have a lot of respect from other fans at the moment will soon change once we start winning again! C’mon if you can’t be confindent pre season when can you?

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    Al The Gooner
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    Yeah, it was just the ‘Nigel Winterburn’.

    And completely agree about the mutual respect between us and ‘Pool. Weirdly, I think ’89 was the catalyst. Man U played their part too, of course, as it’s pretty easy to unite over hating them!

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