"Grand old team to play for" chant

[orkneyspur]

Pfffft. Glory hunter. :wink:

Not quite

glory glory hunter.

 

[orkneyspur]

I see what you did there, don’t try and sneak it by us

Like to keep you lads on your toes. :wink:

 

[Chris12345]

We don't care what the other teams say?
What the hell do we care?
Cos all I know is there's gonna be a show
And that the Tottenham Hotspur will be there!

To be honest it gets really quiet in this bit 'cos I don't think many people know it. And it could be wrong and the reason I get so many looks. [I always put that down to me being gorgeous - it might be singing the wrong words then :lol: :wink:]

haha!

yeah, I'm always left on my own singing this bit :-(

tho its getting stronger this season! :-D

I've got it as part of a Chas n Dave spurs medley :grin:

 

[mkkid]

And slightly altered. But I won’t add the Celtic version as I don’t wanna fall out with mkkid

Glad you didnt mention the altered version with animals in.:razz:

My nephew was singing it to me on my last trip North of the border.But i had the last laugh!

 

[Wingers]

It does get slightly embarrassing when I'm booming this one out and all of a sudden most people stop and I'm left singing (read shouting loudly) with just a handful of people!

 

[stevenqoz]

Definately a song sang in the Park Lane in the late sixties. Thats why I have it as my line.

 

[Michael55677]

The Celtic Song originated with Belfast Celtic who sang it before anyone else. They were forced to close down due the religious troubles in 1949 which spilled over into football. Charlie Tully who was an iconic Irish player whose speciality was scoring from corners moved from Belfast Celtic to Glasgow Celtic in 1948 and the song became popular in Glasgow due to sympathy for the closure of Belfast Celtic and Tully who was a cult figure. A version was recorded for Glasgow Celtic by the music hall singer Glen Daly in 1961 who wrote the additional verses sung today. It couldn’t have originated as a Spurs song as Daly recorded the modern verses. Spurs fans seem to have first sang it at the 1967 London Cup final against Chelsea possibly due to Spurs fans paying homage to Celtic’s European Cup run of 1967. I doubt Spurs fans had any link to Belfast Celtic. Everton fans’ websites indicate their version originated in 1984. Historically Everton fans tended to support Celtic as their Scottish club so that’s the only reason I can think of for Everton adopting it. Hibs fans occasionally sing a version of it. See this website for the origin of the song which was via the Belfast Celtic fans. The song has ultimately been passed on due to the demise of Belfast Celtic and I kind of like that several clubs have shared it via friendship and respect. http://www.belfastceltic.org/celticsong.html

 

[popstar7]

Mid-80s would be a strange time to pick up on a song like this for Everton fans but they'd know better than me obviously. It was regularly sung at the Lane when I started going in the early 80s anyway. Always been my favourite of our songs/chants. Good to hear the Everton support belting it out at the final whistle tonight.

 

[Lighty64]

Mid-80s would be a strange time to pick up on a song like this for Everton fans but they'd know better than me obviously. It was regularly sung at the Lane when I started going in the early 80s anyway. Always been my favourite of our songs/chants. Good to hear the Everton support belting it out at the final whistle tonight.

I remember us singing it in the 70's and 80's. we also used to sing you'll never walk alone as well.

 

[jonnyrotten]

The Celtic Song originated with Belfast Celtic who sang it before anyone else. They were forced to close down due the religious troubles in 1949 which spilled over into football. Charlie Tully who was an iconic Irish player whose speciality was scoring from corners moved from Belfast Celtic to Glasgow Celtic in 1948 and the song became popular in Glasgow due to sympathy for the closure of Belfast Celtic and Tully who was a cult figure. A version was recorded for Glasgow Celtic by the music hall singer Glen Daly in 1961 who wrote the additional verses sung today. It couldn’t have originated as a Spurs song as Daly recorded the modern verses. Spurs fans seem to have first sang it at the 1967 London Cup final against Chelsea possibly due to Spurs fans paying homage to Celtic’s European Cup run of 1967. I doubt Spurs fans had any link to Belfast Celtic. Everton fans’ websites indicate their version originated in 1984. Historically Everton fans tended to support Celtic as their Scottish club so that’s the only reason I can think of for Everton adopting it. Hibs fans occasionally sing a version of it. See this website for the origin of the song which was via the Belfast Celtic fans. The song has ultimately been passed on due to the demise of Belfast Celtic and I kind of like that several clubs have shared it via friendship and respect. http://www.belfastceltic.org/celticsong.html

Epic 13 year thread bump ?

 

[whitesocks]

I always thought Everton were a protestant club and Liverpool the catholic club.
But reading toffee web, there are periods when the reverse was possibly true, and now both clubs are a mixture and religion doesn't really come into it.
Learn something new every, well, now and then.

 

[SecretLemonadeDrinker]

I always thought Everton were a protestant club and Liverpool the catholic club.
But reading toffee web, there are periods when the reverse was possibly true, and now both clubs are a mixture and religion doesn't really come into it.
Learn something new every, well, now and then.

To the limited extent that sectarianism was ever a thing on Merseyside, Liverpool was always the Protestant club. But their two decades of unprecedented success under Shankly and his successors helped them to transcend such divisions and attract support from Protestant and Catholic alike, in both the UK and Ireland.

 

[Michael55677]

Epic 13 year thread bump ?

Is everyone still alive?

 

[Michael55677]

I always thought Everton were a protestant club and Liverpool the catholic club.
But reading toffee web, there are periods when the reverse was possibly true, and now both clubs are a mixture and religion doesn't really come into it.
Learn something new every, well, now and then.

To some extent Everton had a perceived Catholic following around the period they had several Irish players in their side possibly due to fans from the Republic coming over to watch games. It was never the case that all Catholics from Merseyside followed Everton though. There’s no religious affiliation to the clubs like there is in Glasgow though there’s still Orange parades taking place in Merseyside and bigotry possibly caused by Irish Protestants bringing their beliefs over. Everton have an anti Rangers chant in one of their songs which added to the myth of their Catholic following. Liverpool had a Protestant fan base in Ulster and Glasgow but not on Merseyside as far as I know. Manchester United were always perceived as the English Catholic club and linked to Celtic in the Seventies and Eighties. All of those links are gone now with the globalisation of football.

 

[Michael55677]

Epic 13 year thread bump ?

Incidentally Johnny Rotten is a huge Arsenal fan ?

 

[Michael55677]

Mid-80s would be a strange time to pick up on a song like this for Everton fans but they'd know better than me obviously. It was regularly sung at the Lane when I started going in the early 80s anyway. Always been my favourite of our songs/chants. Good to hear the Everton support belting it out at the final whistle tonight.

Not sure why it was adopted by Everton in the mid 80’s however there’s no record of it being sung by Everton fans before that as far as I can tell.