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Singing to Sol

Should we keep singing Sol Campbell's song?


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dimiSpur

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Sing it at home, sing it away, in France, in Spain, in sun and rain, at U21 matches. Never forgive and never forget.

Lay down the law for the new players, and teach them what's just not acceptable.
Exactly. Well said.
 

mabolsa_ritchey

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Oct 23, 2005
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Sing it at home, sing it away, in France, in Spain, in sun and rain, at U21 matches. Never forgive and never forget.

Lay down the law for the new players, and teach them what's just not acceptable.
Just came in to say this. Also, I love that we have threads complaining about the lack of atmosphere in the ground and now we're talking about not singing one of the few songs we actually still sing!
Fair enough this would be a valid discussion 10 years ago when the ground was rocking, these days I look forward to "stand up if you hate Arsenal" to drown out the moaning/season ticket holder discussions amongst themselves about what they got up to in the holidays.
 

Shadydan

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Jul 7, 2012
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Singing about Sol and Arsenal arent getting behind tge team, crap songs, crap support. We need to focus the energy on our team and no-one else.
 

Bobbins

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Yep, stop singing that and the Arsenal song please.

I really like the Holtby, Lamela and Eriksen songs. Sing those more.
 

Gb160

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Now that he's on twitter I see that as the best way let him know your feelings.....i just don't see him as even remotely relevant, therefore I won't waste my breath/time singing about him.
 

E17yid

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Yep, stop singing that and the Arsenal song please.

I really like the Holtby, Lamela and Eriksen songs. Sing those more.

I like the Erisken song but we need to slow the tempo down. As it stands it just doesn't quite work when you hear it in the stadium. Everyone is signing it way to fast which results in us being able to hear the "EEERRRRRIKKKKKSENN SEN SEN" bit really well and then the rest is just mumbled until you get to the Ozil bit.

Slow it down boys
 

Bobbins

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I like the Erisken song but we need to slow the tempo down. As it stands it just doesn't quite work when you hear it in the stadium. Everyone is signing it way to fast which results in us being able to hear the "EEERRRRRIKKKKKSENN SEN SEN" bit really well and then the rest is just mumbled until you get to the Ozil bit.

Slow it down boys

Agree, we also need to slow down 'oh when the Spurs' again to the super-slow rate of a few years ago. Every time I've gone recently and tried to do it really slow I've felt like a bit of a nob when everyone else is speeding up. And then usually they start clapping after the first verse :banghead:
 

the shelf

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I cringe every time I hear the Sol Campbell song now... It was so long ago now, I think we have all established that we are not fond of the guy but singing a song about somebody who doesn't even play anymore reeks of insane bitterness and frankly gives him more attention than he deserves.

As far as the 'stand up...' song is concerned - I don't necessarily have a problem with it, I just wish we could come up with a few new ones occasionally!
 

ERO

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People that insist on taking a rational high ground when it comes to passion related football issues stinks of seeking an intellectual recognition they don't achieve elsewhere.
 

class of 62

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Singing about Sol and Arsenal arent getting behind tge team, crap songs, crap support. We need to focus the energy on our team and no-one else.

any singing at the lane would be nice! its a f&($%^ing morgue.

& by the way... judas!!.. never forgiven never forgotten..
 
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Flightrisker

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Jan 15, 2006
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True. We should stop singing. Stop going at all really. There's no rationale to be passionate at all.


Nah of course we should sing. It's a game. Singing is great. Support the team with all the passion you have.



"Never forgive and never forget. Lay down the law for the new players, and teach them what's just not acceptable."


That's not passion. That's nothing about supporting Spurs. You reckon our current crop get supported by this?

"Hey Lewis! hear that?"
"Yeah Christian, what are they singing?"
"Something about hating a guy that left the club 13 years ago. Something about wishing him dead."
"Ah right. Pretty sweet. Anything about us?"
"Not so much Lewis, not so much."
"Fucking love this club."
 

ERO

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Nah of course we should sing. It's a game. Singing is great. Support the team with all the passion you have.



"Never forgive and never forget. Lay down the law for the new players, and teach them what's just not acceptable."


That's not passion. That's nothing about supporting Spurs. You reckon our current crop get supported by this?

"Hey Lewis! hear that?"
"Yeah Christian, what are they singing?"
"Something about hating a guy that left the club 13 years ago. Something about wishing him dead."
"Ah right. Pretty sweet. Anything about us?"
"Not so much Lewis, not so much."
"Fucking love this club."

Obviously besides the point, but good pick opting for two of the very few players that actually get their songs sung on occasion at The Lane.

I think you might want to look up the meaning of 'passion' though.

Do they get supported from negative songs about another team/player? I think any noise from the home crowd will be positive, much more so than the normal silence and unhappy muttering, but I obviously have no empiric proof to back that up. Do I think that it makes the matches against Arsenal, which for me are the most important league matches, more fierce? Yes, I do. As coaches and players continuosly states, the fans make them aware of what it means.

If your feelings surrounding Tottenham are solely about Tottenham, then good for you. It's not quite like that for me, and I really wouldn't want to change that.
 

dimiSpur

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Nah of course we should sing. It's a game. Singing is great. Support the team with all the passion you have.



"Never forgive and never forget. Lay down the law for the new players, and teach them what's just not acceptable."


That's not passion. That's nothing about supporting Spurs. You reckon our current crop get supported by this?

"Hey Lewis! hear that?"
"Yeah Christian, what are they singing?"
"Something about hating a guy that left the club 13 years ago. Something about wishing him dead."
"Ah right. Pretty sweet. Anything about us?"
"Not so much Lewis, not so much."
"Fucking love this club."
Way over the top as the Campbell song was one of the many songs sung on Saturday. I heard many Holtby songs (too many if you ask me) as well as renditions of take Lamela and the Eriksen song.

So stop talking for the sake of it with your unfunny imaginary sketch.
 

Flightrisker

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Fair enough, different strokes and all that.

I didn't grow up in the UK so makes sense that the "tribalism" element of supporting a football team is a tad lost on me. For sure there can be good elements to it and having been to many an eerily silent WHL night I do see the need to get people singing.

So agreeing to disagree and taking my own advice of focusing on the "there's more that united us than divides us" aspect of football.

COYS
 
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