Derby fans - just LOL.

[boycey]

Football fans in winding other fans up shocker.

That's the thing though. Was anyone actually wound up by it?

Does laughing at them indicate being wound up these days?

I recall an edition of The Oatcake, the Stoke fanzine, which stated a dislike for Reading based on the fact that we so regularly knew how to wind up the away supporters. That was a long time ago, mind, but it wasn't just done by singing the same tiresome nonsense every game.

Not that were were immune to that. We'd often sign "is that all you take away?" even though the away following would be greater than what we took to their place.


For inventive - and apologies if this is elsewhere, but I can't be arsed to open another session to search for it halfway through typing this - Barnsley fans had a nice tribute to Sheffield United at the weekend.

You fill up my senses
Like a weekend in Yeovil
Like a Johnstone’s Paint Trophy
As you empty your [Bramall] Lane
Like a Steel City derby
In the old third division
Oh Sheffield United
You f**ked up again

Its rubbish.
Where would you insert the fast clapping and drummer?

[brendywendy]

I pay £375 to watch a season of football not to compete in the fukking X Factor. If I sing I sing, if I don't I don't. What I really don't is need some pious little prick telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

You only sing when you're winning has to be the thickest song in the history of the game. When do you want me to sing? When we're getting beaten 5-0 and having the sh*t kicked out of us for 90 minutes? Oh we got dicked on but I sang a few flamin' tunes. If you want a crap atmosphere go to Ipswich or Watford they are just two of many who are devoid of noise for starters.

As for daytrippers every club has them when they get a bit of success. Remember when Stoke were playing against us in League 1 and the Championship? there were swathes of empty seats, now every time I see them on tv there isn't a spare seat in the house. But it's good old Stoke isn't it working class area, working class people and really passionate about their team. Much better than our fans even though they couldn't be bothered to turn up before they joined the big boys.

So Derby fans can sing. Did they win the game? are they in the play offs? The answer to both questions is no. We are in the play offs, we should enjoy it, not worry about what other clubs think of us and if we out sang the Disney brigade.

is that pious little prick referring to me you massive mungbean?
im not telling you what to do or how to support, im just saying how that makes the club look to others, and how it makes me feel slightly embarrassed on the 20 home games a season where it happens.
the crowd participation was what got me into football years ago, and im pretty sure we wont be attracting many fans on that basis at the moment, is all.
im not expecting anyone to listen, or do anything about it. im just saying that imo it would be nice if when a big club come down and start to sing we could at least have a little pride and sing something back.(y25/26 excepted)

[sandman]

It isn't refering to you specifically sorry if it looks that way. Lets face it "Pious little prick" could describe so many people on here.

Besides logic boy it's a rant.

[brendywendy]

It isn't refering to you specifically sorry if it looks that way. Lets face it "Pious little prick" could describe so many people on here.

Besides logic boy it's a rant.

tbf it is a pretty accurate description anyway

[SpaceCruiser]

Also are you not deaf? How did you hear these chants?

I didn't hear them. I read about them on here.

[SouthDownsRoyal]

Also are you not deaf? How did you hear these chants?

I didn't hear them. I read about them on here.

[rabidbee]

Not that were were immune to that. We'd often sign "is that all you take away?" even though the away following would be greater than what we took to their place.

That's Spacey for you.

ALOL

[Jerry St Clair]

Surely the worst song ever is the crap "This is a shithole, I want to go home" that is sung absolutely everywhere by every set of fans?

Even worse when a set of fans from a provincial town with an identikit concrete and plastic bowl sing it about the identikit concrete and plastic bowl of an opposing team from a provincial town?

Couldn't that be just confusion? At the Coventry game, I parked a short distance from a motorway junction, walked through the shitty suburbville failing miserably to find a decent pub, before arriving at a soulless bowl next to a dual carriageway. I wasn't being derogatory when singing this. I genuinely thought I was in Reading.

[under the tin]

I pay £375 to watch a season of football not to compete in the fukking X Factor. If I sing I sing, if I don't I don't. What I really don't is need some pious little prick telling me what I should and shouldn't do.

You only sing when you're winning has to be the thickest song in the history of the game. When do you want me to sing? When we're getting beaten 5-0 and having the sh*t kicked out of us for 90 minutes? Oh we got dicked on but I sang a few flamin' tunes. If you want a crap atmosphere go to Ipswich or Watford they are just two of many who are devoid of noise for starters.

As for daytrippers every club has them when they get a bit of success. Remember when Stoke were playing against us in League 1 and the Championship? there were swathes of empty seats, now every time I see them on tv there isn't a spare seat in the house. But it's good old Stoke isn't it working class area, working class people and really passionate about their team. Much better than our fans even though they couldn't be bothered to turn up before they joined the big boys.

So Derby fans can sing. Did they win the game? are they in the play offs? The answer to both questions is no. We are in the play offs, we should enjoy it, not worry about what other clubs think of us and if we out sang the Disney brigade.

This gets a big +1 from me.
So we play in a "plastic bowl". The South bank is no more. I'm too old to don my Doc martens, jump up and down and sing "Knees up mother brown".
Times have changed.
No matter how much noise we make, the fans of other clubs will find something to slag us off about, because football is tribal. I don't care what the fans of other clubs think.
I just look around the Madstad, averaging about 16 000, and remember Elm Park, pre McGhee, with 4000 in it.
I will be there on Friday, watching us take a shot at getting into the Prem (again), mindful that all our traditional local rivals will be competing at League 2 next season, and the fans of all those clubs would give their eye teeth to have the facilities we have, and the directors of those clubs have wet dreams about getting anywhere near the attendances we do.