Favourite "old skool" Reading chant

[Bacon Double Cheese]

Ray ray, ray ray ray ray, ray ray ray ray, ray ray ray ray Ranson.

Anyone else count the number of Rays there to make sure the General had got it right? No? Just me then.

Twice, I miscounted the first time

[Jerry St Clair]

For a glorious few months at the start of the 78/79 season : "Hey you, don't watch that, watch this! This is the heavy heavy monster sound ... one goal behind ...."

Ace.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZy1h75QW50

[Jackson Corner]

He's only a poor little Robin
His face is all tattered and torn
He made me feel sick, so I hit him with a pick
And now he don't sing anymore

[Mr Optimist]

On a similar vein..in your northern slums,
in your northern slums,
you piss on the carpet
you vvank in the bath
you beat up your grandma
you think it's a laugh
in your northern slums

sign on, sign on

[Jackson Corner]

Here's another Ollie Kearns one:

Ollie Kearns, Ollie Kearns,
Ollie Ollie Kearns
When he gets the ball
he does fcuk all
Ollie Ollie Kearns.[/quote]


My only happy memory of Kearns is that he used to get righteously fukced off when we sung that at him.[/quote]

Why was this love hate relationship with Kearns? From what I remember of him he was the opposite of Shane Long offered nothing in his general play but his scoring record was up there with the best 1 in 2 games.

[Rush to oblivian]

[quote="oldebiscuit"]'KNEES UP MOTHER BROWN' followed with a surge down the terrace. Can you imagine anything like it with todays Tangoes? It was legalised rioting really.[/quote

Funny I was thinking about that one the other day. The version I remember went something like
"Knees up mother Brown
kness up mother Brown
under the table you must go
E I E I E I O
if i catch you w@nking, I'll saw your legs right off
E I E I E I O..............."

Then there was a line which i've long since forgotten!

Happy days

[Wide and Wonderful]

Any song that poked fun at the fattest of the 50 visiting fans from Grimbsy, Port Vale or some such other place: "Have you ever, Have you ever, have you ever seen your dick?"

I remember when the Reading fans blatantly ripped off the Baggies, Baggies, Boing, Boing song for a few months - basically an excuse to bounce around like a nob head - always seemed a good laugh*

Some guy in the southbank called Simon with a rather large Afro used to get a bit of a song dedicatged to him - "Simon and his Afro, Simon and his Afro, la-la la la."

Give me an R -R!, E, E! A, A! and so on.......(Does anyone do this anymore?)

When Skies are Grey

None of these songs are particularly unique, but they seemed to lead from one song and into the next as soon as the last one had finished.

The boistrousness(sp) of jumping around the Southbank singing and generally acting like a bit of a twunt was exactly the way to unwind with the lads after a week at work.

Nowadays people seem to go to the football for the football........................



*i was a teenager at the time and didn't know any better.

[Jerry St Clair]

The boistrousness(sp) of jumping around the Southbank singing and generally acting like a bit of a twunt was exactly the way to unwind with the lads after a week at work.

Nowadays people seem to go to the football for the football........................

The "right side of the Bank" always held a slightly mystical aura. When I started going to Elm Park in the late 80s as a young lad, only the brave ventured right of the clock. It was where the older lads went, and if you joined them you were part of a select group. A group that had it's own rules and culture. A group very distinct from the other parts of Elm Park.

Do young lads going to the Madejski feel the same way about Y25, I wonder?

[Big Foot]

Give me an R -R!, E, E! A, A! and so on.......(Does anyone do this anymore?)

Heard it going at QPR away

[Hugo Boss]

The boistrousness(sp) of jumping around the Southbank singing and generally acting like a bit of a twunt was exactly the way to unwind with the lads after a week at work.

Nowadays people seem to go to the football for the football........................

The "right side of the Bank" always held a slightly mystical aura. When I started going to Elm Park in the late 80s as a young lad, only the brave ventured right of the clock. It was where the older lads went, and if you joined them you were part of a select group. A group that had it's own rules and culture. A group very distinct from the other parts of Elm Park.

Do young lads going to the Madejski feel the same way about Y25, I wonder?

Fully agreed. Always used to stand to the left of the clock until about 1995 when I started going with m8s as I got older. Was a great place to be on a Saturday afternoon or even better on the midweek games.

Remember me and me m8s "daring" each other to start the "Gimme an R" chant once when we were in our early teens. I gave it a whirl and got the response. I felt like a King.

[Bandini]

Not really a chant, but "GET OUT THE WAY" always raised a smile.

[Smoking Kills Dancing Doe]

He fat, he's round, he's taking Leicester down.

Shaka, Shaka, Shaka.

Jimmy Quinn, Quinn, Quinn.

Walking in a Nogan wonder land.

[papereyes]

The "right side of the Bank" always held a slightly mystical aura. When I started going to Elm Park in the late 80s as a young lad, only the brave ventured right of the clock. It was where the older lads went, and if you joined them you were part of a select group. A group that had it's own rules and culture. A group very distinct from the other parts of Elm Park.

Yeah, that's so accurate.

[Big Foot]

Remember me and me m8s "daring" each other to start the "Gimme an R" chant once when we were in our early teens. I gave it a whirl and got the response. I felt like a King.

Me, Boyband etc still do that

[Hugo Boss]

LOL!!

[Hugo Boss]

Not really a chant but got to mention one bloke on the South Bank who would shout "COME ON READING" every single game. Nothing amazing about that you might think but it was quite nasally and completely monotone plus he would do it once and once only per game. Have only heard it once in recent times and that was up at Wigan in the first Premiership season.

Most people I mention this to look at me blankly so i'm hoping someone on here will back me up.

[Jerry St Clair]

Not really a chant but got to mention one bloke on the South Bank who would shout "COME ON READING" every single game. Nothing amazing about that you might think but it was quite nasally and completely monotone plus he would do it once and once only per game. Have only heard it once in recent times and that was up at Wigan in the first Premiership season.

Most people I mention this to look at me blankly so i'm hoping someone on here will back me up.

Yep, I'll back you up there Hugo. Stood just to the right of the clock about halfway up. Had a voice like a man who smoked Capstan full strength.

[Mid Sussex Royal]

Here's another Ollie Kearns one:

Ollie Kearns, Ollie Kearns,
Ollie Ollie Kearns
When he gets the ball
he does fcuk all
Ollie Ollie Kearns.

My only happy memory of Kearns is that he used to get righteously fukced off when we sung that at him.[/quote]

Why was this love hate relationship with Kearns? From what I remember of him he was the opposite of Shane Long offered nothing in his general play but his scoring record was up there with the best 1 in 2 games.[/quote]


I think when he didn't score he was complete dog - wasn't quick and couldn't trap a bag of cement. He just had that knack of being in right place at right time.

[Gobsheik]

Here's two that I remember.
1. Gordon, Gordon Cumming, Gordon Cumming on the wingggg.
2. Laaa, La La, La La La Laaa, La La La Laaa ., Saintyyyyy! (Sung to the Beatles' Hey Jude.)
How many of you remember those?

[ayjaydee]

If I had the wings of a sparrow, if I had the arse of a crow
I'd fly over Swindon tomorrow and shit on the bastards below
shit on, shit on, shit on the bastards below below.

a really random partial memory

walk with a wiggle walk with a w ank, we are the Reading Southbank