The 7 Worst Football Chants
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2023
- From Chelsea fans monotonously shouting the name of their club on repeat to Major League Soccer capos creating a raucous atmosphere at Seattle Sounders, HITC Sevens takes a look at some of football's worst songs and chants.
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I’m here for less than two minutes and we already have a terrible chant, a poetic analysis, *and* an Osama Bin Laden visual. Only Alfie could showcase such immense genius.
*Song to America* 😂
And a "bazinga."
indeed, who else does this
The 40 seconds at the start is the longest 40 seconds ever in my life
Thought it would never end
It was only 40 seconds?
Right, 40 seconds. Thank you. I'd turned the video off. Feel like the joke would have landed with just a couple of seconds of footage...
As an American soccer fan, I'm surprised that our "We believe that we will win" chant didn't make the list.
Hands down the worst to me. Also can't wait to scream it in Dallas during the World Cup tho lmao.
THIS IS ATLANTA
When I was 12 during the 2014, World Cup, this chant was so cool to me. Maybe it was the gap year of us missing out in 2018, but last winter I just didn’t feel any joy when hearing it. That could also be because the Berhalter hate brigade has poisoned USMNT fandom and made feeling joy impossible
@@MpanzuSolos If the bloke who sang that sang that in England he would be in Intensive Care
@@lorddarlo6194there is no way a marching band is making it into a league two game thankfully, I prefer to listen to drunken wailing about their mum being a slag and whatnot
That chant in the beginning is why Giroud celebrated against Arsenal in Baku.
That chant was never his song.
@@dalbalgbusc I was joking
@@dalbalgbusc r/woooosh
Because arsenals back line was too busy going to the toilet after he did them
I had never heard ‘Chelsea Ranger.’ What a thoughtful and moving chant.
p.s I’ll never be the same man I was 4 minutes ago. Cheers.
Christ I support Chelsea and I died inside
Of all the awful things I'd expect football fans to chant about, "necrophilia" was not on that list.
Sir Jimmy Savile would be very proud
@@bretton_woods Pretty sure Savile was a nonce, not a necrophillac.
Not like one is better than the other, but still.
@@654jimbob654 It does go off the rails very quickly.
On the other hand, "We lose every week..." is the greatest football chant ever known to mankind.
I'd say second best after "Luis Suarez, your teeth are offside"
Let's pretend we scored a goal is also up there
Have heard in a few places "is this a library?" Chanted as an away fan if they're visiting a place with no atmosphere
Iconic
Old Trafford is going down can be part of the greats
I will die on the hill that 'you're getting mauled by the Tigers' complete with the hand gestures is one of the best chants in football, purely based on how much it winds opposition fans up. Imagine going 4-0 down to Hull City and having grown men doing the chant and hand gestures at you, you'd completely lose your head with rage. It's hilarious
The chant itself is class but the hand claw gesture is absolutely shambolic.
The best one is when Leeds were hammering Hull and chanting "We're getting mailed by the tigers"
I think it would be even funnier in the 89th minute after a dubious penalty puts Hull City 1-0 up. Either way, it's hilarious.
Even you don't really believe that.
Shhhhhhh we don’t people to actually get the joke, come on it’s funny seeing everyone get mad about it online
Never thought I could have hated Chelsea more but that Chelsea Rangers chant did it.
as a spurs fan, 100% agree on you with this one
Yep
As a Chelsea supporter I'm starting to think that the Match-going fans are the worst part of the fanbase. Seems like Blues fans from the rest of the world aren't as stupid
Alfie spending 4 and a half minutes roasting a random kid 💀💀
Seen the "CHELSEA CHELSEA CHELSEA" chant in lists of 'most iconic chants in football' and never could get my head around why. They're literally just shouting the club name????
iconic doesn't mean good, the room is also an iconic movie
So then why is that chant memed about so much when literally every single fan of a club will chant the name of their team at a match
@@MrEd94because there’s something about a load of middle aged west london men in stone island shouting chelsea that truly crawls under your skin
@@chickenindabox3169 I mean i guess you're right, but then again I've literally seen people arguing that it's up there with "You'll Never Walk Alone"
@@jepperiis6134 literally nobody has ever claimed that you melt
0:54 How was that only 43 seconds? Christ that was soo painful it felt like boy droned on for an hour.
As a non English viewer that didn't know any of these chants, I don't think I'm ever going to recover from watching this video. The Giroud start was already mind boggling but the Chelsea Ranger left me in a state of shock.
Oscar Wilde was a sometime (and involuntary) resident of Reading and I’m sure he would have appreciated the subtle nuances of Reading FC’s “We Hate Swindon” chant, which is simply that pithy phrase repeated six times before rounding off with an emphatic “We are the Swindon haters!” Poetic in its simplicity.
This is the comment I was looking for. I didn't know it.
And involuntary 💀
HITC Sevens is now doing the job of HITC Football. Never expected this!
But better
This is the first HITC Sevens video that has me nervous before I even click it.
-an American
I'm american but some USA chants and fan outfits make me cringe.
@@krustybeanzOh for sure. But I’m glad that most Americans are self-aware of the horrible chants like “fight and win” and openly mock them.
Honestly I get why so many chants are cringe, it's trying to start active support in a sports culture that mostly spits on such a thing
@@valpix7007we don't have long football (soccer) traditions like most countries do so we force it to close the gap.
@@krustybeanzwhich one is it you don’t like? ‘O-fence, O-fence!’ Or ‘D-fence, D-fence!’ lol
I long for the life I had before I first heard the Chelsea Ranger chant. I will never be as happy as I was when I lived in ignorance of its existence.
Well you can thank your lucky stars you weren't around in the 1970's to hear the Chelsea gas song.
@@SirAntoniousBlockthe WHAT
@@guguy00 It was an antisemitic anti-Tottenham song, I wonder if Abramovich knew the words.
@@SirAntoniousBlockI'm really starting to hate the fanbase... and I'm one of them...
(Not an antisemite, just a Chelsea supporter. Though at this point I'm starting to doubt there is a difference)
That 'Chelsea Ranger' chant is probably the biggest plot twist i've ever experienced in Football 💀
Pretty much up there with Monty Python's Lumberjack Song, which started off as supposedly a macho song about being a lumberjack, before revealing its actually a song about crossdressing fantasies. lol
Best chant was at the 2016 Summer Olympics when every time Hope Solo did a goal kick the crowd went "Ahhhhhhhhh! ZIKA!" (in reference to her comments saying she was fearful of going to Brazil due to the virus lol).
The England-German football rivalry is kind of funny, because of how one-sided it is. Most Germans would probably say The Netherlands is their biggest rival.
The world war 2 chants and shit are cringeworthy.
Another day. Another request for a What On Earth Is Going On at Santos FC
EDIT: Thank you so Much for dissing the Tony Martial chant. As a Man United fan sick to death of him I feel so represented
Well erm
As a Chelsea fan, my cheeks are clenched with this one 😂
Big 6 chants are terrible... maybe because there isn't an ounce of creativity in all their fan bases combined
@@UKparanormalz manchester united has some of the best chants in the league lol? just for example look at the george best chant,feed the scousers,glory glory man united (i know it's a song but people chant it anyways),we've seen the lot,we've won it all,or the busby babes chants? bro stretford end has the best chants in the league by far
@@UKparanormalzwhat counts as a chant does a player’s song count?
@@UKparanormalz The new Arsenal ones are quite good, if short
The question is “Which cheek though?”
As someone who tutors GCSE English sometimes, the initial chant is still a better, more symbolically coherent and thematically rich composition than Jane Weir's Poppies. Real ones know
Bayonet charge >
Of all the places to see GCSE poetry slander 😂😭
Alfie. Please. I’m laughing so hard that now I had to pause because it was too funny! Your content has consistently uplifted me are reminds me that funny still exists. Thank you.
The "Chelsea Ranger" segment followed simply by "ARRRGGHH" broke me. Coffee went everywhere lol
Honestly, I am a Chelsea fan and my first thought at #7 was "oh come on, man, don't kick us when we're THIS down...", but by the end of #2, I was like "yep, fair enough, we fucking suck..."
Jesus. "Chelsea. Chelsea. Chelsea" is nothing compared to the drone of "Liverpooooool. Liverpoooool".
Atleast Liverpool still have You'll Never Walk Alone as a saving grace lol, Chelsea had none. The team was fairly mediocre before Abramovich takeover afterall(i mean while they DO have trophy and often finished in a high position, they're basically Blue Tottenham back then)
@@dominikfraaanjuanLiverpool have a lot more than just YNWA. Old Scouser Tommy, The Fields of Anfield Road etc.
@@All-Outta-Bubblegum right. Those were better than United's copy of an American wartime song(glory glory Manchester United). Idk why the moment i heard it i always feel cringy
@@dominikfraaanjuan yeah, that "Glory MMan United has always felt cheap" it's just a more advanced version of the "shouting the name of my club repeatedly" chant.
@@All-Outta-Bubblegumrarely sang as real fans have been priced out like all big prem clubs
Well said about the song Oh When The Saints Go Matching In. It should only be sung by Southampton fans & not "adapted" by other English teams.
A few Scottish teams quite at liberty to use it as well, mind you.
Southampton weren't the first ones to use the chant though.
It’s been the anthem of the Finland national team fans for quite some time too! ‘We’ve got sauna, booze and an axe, oh Finland is so wonderful,’ (Yep, I don’t know why there’s an axe either). 😂
Also St. Kilda in the AFL
Also sung by St. George/Illawarra in the AU National Rugby League.
My brother once started a chant of "Rent boy, rent boy, rent boy" aimed at David Bentley when he came up to take a corner. To my surprise, the entire stand to a person joined in.
The resultant corner was terrible and Bentley's performance noticeably dropped off for the rest of the game.
Guess it worked then😂
Who was he playing for and who were the people chatning?
It's usually "Chelsea rent boys Chelsea rent boys Hello Hello" to the Gary Glitter tune appropriately enough.
The analysis of the Oli Giroud chant at the start has me dyingggg man. May be the funniest thing Alfie has done on this channel 😂😂😂
"The greatest team, the world has ever seen..."
Is pretty funny when its a half dozen fans of Portland United
Nothing and I mean nothing could have prepared me for that Chelsea Rangers chant. Wtf is that man
We at Charlton have a number of impressively bad ones. There's an Addams Family one that makes insinuations about the bedroom habits of the opposition that should by rights be reserved for East Anglian opposition alone, but which is aimed at more or less everyone. There's another one that celebrates the delights of life in South London in a particularly...lusty way, before proceeding to a second verse that takes aim at Millwall's home turf (this bit is less objectionable tbf). We also do most of the ones that all other clubs do with slavish dedication.
The worst chant I've ever heard is Sheffield United's 'His name is Ched Evans, he'll shag who he wants' though. Have always wished them ill since then
Ouf, that's pretty rotten yes.
this is uniroinically one of the best videos you've made alfie i had a lot of fun watching this vids i truly cannot express how much i love watching your videos alfie keep it up!
One of the best on the other hand "You've seen the Villa, now f**k off home"
Seeing Arteta storm off to that song made that match all the sweeter UTV
4 minutes and 30 seconds of pure pain and analysis for a chant I wish never heard at the very start of the video is a first in my life Alfie, please never do it again.
It was absolutely awful. Within seconds I was muttering 'Stop, stop, please stop'. I feel bad for the lad who's probably at least a little bit infamous for this and really doesn't deserve it.
That first clip felt soooo uncomfortably long and then, right when we feel safe again, he hits us with that second Giroud chant
The analysis took so many unexpected turns
"Now she's dead"
Reminds me of the training episode of the Office so much
If you don’t like chants that are just the team name his going to hate AFL chants
coooooooooooollllllliiiiiiiinnnggggggwwoooooooooooodddd
I thought AFL chants are just singing the team song
we don't scarf twirl at MOT, we scarf twirl for WACCOE
I don’t understand how MOT is apparently worse when it’s a decent anthem and represents the club well. Whereas ‘champions of Europe’ is boring, repetitive and factually incorrect that’s so much worse than MOT
As a neutral and outsider (American), after hearing pretty much all of them from the league, I think that MOT is one of the best. Heck, "never walk alone" sounds like like a funeral procession.
I can understand him hating it - he's a Hull fan.@@sirsurnamethefirstofhisnam7986
As a Chelsea fan, I’m surprised “celery, celery” didn’t also feature to be honest
I'm surprised too, but then again it's not as if it hasn't been mocked before Russell Howard did it before.
Ah that's class 😂
I have no issue with the "Chelsea, Chelsea, Chelsea" chant...seeing that many other club supporters just chant their club's name. I also do not have an issue with Leeds' anthem. It's not the best anthem ever, but it works. Every other one of your other listings should absolutely be on here. I've never heard of "Chelsea Ranger" until today, and I will be perfectly okay if I never hear that chant again.
The issue is that is Chelsea's main chant and the one their fanbase knows, and that is about it.
Very rarely have i wanted to skip time on a video as hard as for the first seconds of this video .
Impressive
How in gods name did you write a better essay analysing that chant than anything I’ve written, ever.
Never thought i’d hear someone say “we’ve got super peter sutcliffe, he knows exactly what we need” lmao
I hadn't seen that Giroud chant video in absolutely years, and had totally forgotten about it. Thank you for bringing it back into my life.
So Alfie, you're not sure whether Marching On Together is factually accurate or not?
Wait until you hear Leeds fans singing "We Are The Champions, Champions Of Europe"
😂😂😂😂😂 I almost choked on my drink.
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Quick video suggestion, albeit one which I highly doubt would work, I mean other than a Santos one and the growth of attendances in the Brasileiro, is about the Albanian women's league which seems to be the strangest in all of european football, due to the number of goals scored by some teams and how few others score.
Didn't expect the Marching on Together slander lmao. Although I guess it makes sense from a Hull City supporter.
Alfie doing the GCSE PEEL English language breakdown
Usually you are, understandably, somewhat UK-centric in your videos, but this time you're spot on.
My dad used to comment on the chelsea song "id sing along if only i knew the words" funny at first but his go to dad joke.
In all fairness, 'stand up if you won the war' is tasteful compared to the plastic orange wehrmacht helmets that were popular in 2006 in the Netherlands. I still see them popping up here and there to this day, especially if games againt Germany. Considering that, unlike England-Germany, NL-Germany is actually considered a rivalry by both sides, things do often get heated, but the Dutch really pushed it in 2006.
Im still trying to figure out who ally gerood is who used to be a gunner 🤣🤣
Was at the Nottingham Forest v Brighton and Hove Albion match the other week and some of our fans started chanting 'Billy Gilmour, Billy Gilmour' etc. on the way to the station. A passing Forest fan pointed out it wasn't our best effort to which the Brighton fans reluctantly agreed.
Some signs of self awareness.
Who’s billy gilmour?
Brighton and Scotland midfielder
Albion over and over again in different tones is a bad one aswell and it's sung at every game.
You'll never say that 😂
No, Marching on Together is not ironic. And no, we don't scarf twirl at Marching on Together either. I feel like the inclusion of Marching on Together on this list came with a *slight* bias
re: the sounders chant, as someone who has been going to those games for years, the sounders and several other clubs used to be a lot more rowdy and the chants used to be less tame but a few years ago the MLS and US Soccer cracked down a lot on teams with chants that were taken to be offensive (and by offensive they mean not child friendly) which a decent number of fans arent a fan of. its made going to games a lot less fun if im being honest
This video feels like homework submitted on the last day of term. Love it 🤙
Genuinely one of the funniest videos you’ve made, very much enjoyed it 👌
The most expressive i've ever heard you in my life .Good video as usual .
I already know the worst football chant. It's my local team, Egaleo, in Greece. Its heart-warming lyrics go like this:
Ooooo...
Oooo...
Ooo...
Egaleo...
Oo...
The two os in the end are crucial. They concentrate the whole meaning of the chant.
Villa do a similar rendition to that shite Chelsea song and they rightfully get bullied for it by their neighbours with high pitched “Villa, Villa, Villa” chants in response
Also, speaking as a German, literally none here (aside from dumb neo nazis probably) is mad about the fact that Germany lost World War II - making the ten german bombers chant even more pointless
i mean... England-Germany is also a one-sided rivalry so it is kind of fitting for England fans to chant something that Germans would not be upset about at all lol
Languishing in league 2 made me bawl like a mad person 😂
Wow, that was 25min of pure gold. I was in fits of laughter from start to finish. Tnx Alfie 😂
I needed a good laugh. Glad you highlighted the Chelsea chants, they are abysmal.
To show us his ball knowledge’s alfie decided to use only the second most famous arsenal chant about adebayor
Feyenoord Rotterdam is my club and we have the best chants in The Netherlands by far. We do singing only, so no drums or other instruments and no megaphones are allowed. Also, we have no ultra's or any of that. Just a lot of people singing.
As an englishman it seems like all European teams have drums. Or at least that's what it feels like in the champions league lol.
Yes and it's very annoying and it is not good for the quality of the songs. Go and watch a Feyenoord game and you'll see that we don't do this but stick to singing. And we do play Champions League again!!!@@jamesthornton3539
Drums are amazing, megaphones not so much
You're wrong@@FranzFridl
Only towards the end have I understood that he chants about Giroud 🙈
My Dad can confirm watching Chelsea play is like being on a slow march to death 😂
Chelsea fans been really quiet lately
"We won the transfer window
We won the transfer window
OOoooooooh Chelsea,
We won the transfer window"
Alfie saying “getting a chub on” 😂😂
Alfie is to football chants what Uncle Roger is to BBC cooking shows’ egg fried rice!
😂
Alfie mate this has to be your best work yet 😂had me in stitches . COYS
Made me laugh.... thanks Alfie. BTW can you do a video on the CRAZY number of Prem League injuries there are at the moment
Hee hee hee, the more you hate listening to it, the more we enjoy singing it. MOT
This was an expertly delivered exposition of the subtleties of discourse within the lifeworld of a football fan, more than that though it was funny as fck and you Sir are a comedy genius.
Man, your scathing sarcasm is at high tide on this one, Alfie! I think there's a subset of football fans who would be very upset with you, if they knew how to use the internet and might conceivably find this video.
It's nice to live in a bubble of only going to your team's matches and thinking that you are unique, but Alfie really burst that bubble for me with the Super Kieron McKenna song!
As a German supporter, what I don’t understand about the war chants is that it seems to imply that Germans consider WWII a humiliation. Like, we’re glad the Nazis lost too, you know?
Why do I find myself watching and enjoying so much of your content when I'm not even a fan of football?
It might be EXACTLY why.
Forget mister "Girud", I want Alfie to do me.
all time great video intro from alfie. absolute belly laughs from this one
the witty humour in these vids from you is gold dude lol
This video works so well in your deduction style
You crack me right up alfie mate! Brilliant
That has to be the funniest laugh i have ever had at a video on a monday, well done
You gotta do "Top 7 BEST Football Chants"
It'd just be mauled by the tigers 7 times
Anything in the MLS. I swear it's like they hired a marketing company to write the most basic rate G chants for all the clubs to be easy to learn and family friendly
You hit the nail on the head. The only thing you forgot is “boring”.
That’s exactly what they did
OMFG that opening bit had me in tears. That's the next Purnell analysis I come here for.
I know you mentioned that it is different that people don't chant about sex offenders, but the Melbourne Victory actives would seek to disagree.
Need a follow up video on 7 worst chants from a-league active support groups…
@@fletch6183 just thought I’d mention it as the Danny Townsend one does stick in the memory lol
As a Chelsea fan, our chants are a bit rubbish.
😂👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🤣🤣 this just might be your funniest video yet Alfie! Good work
Beautiful video alfie
The only longer 43 seconds I have ever experienced were during a colonoscopy.
Off the strength of that "Mauled by the Tigers" chant, I've become a casual Hull City fan 🙌🏽🙌🏽😅😅
this is a banger Alfie
Top 7 best ever chants next
Alfie I feel you as a sounders fan, we’ve been needing new chants since 2012 but it’s the same old stuff and the same old songs. There’s a lot of unique things in the city we could sing about like our music scene which would fit us a lot better.
‘The closest thing to war they’ve seen is Black Friday in Tesco when Carling is 2-for-1’ Sick burn hahaha
now i think that alfie should do top 7 best chants in english football (or the world) great video!
Always a bit partial to ‘shit ground, no fans, shit ground, no fans’ myself.
In St. Louis we have St. Louis city SC and we've adapted a very bundesliga-esque vibe because the people that we put in charge come from hoffenheim. So it's a nice change of pace from everyone else in the MLS
Hoffenheim have no atmosphere though