"(2004). The song could often be heard sung on match days at the Boleyn Ground by fans of West Ham United Football Club; and has also been adopted by fans of other football clubs for various chants, most recognisably with the words ""Who Ate All the Pies?"". Knees Up Mother Brown ""Knees Up Mother Brown"" is a song, published in 1938, by which time it had already been known for some years. The song dates back to at least 1918 and appears to have been sung widely in London on 11 November of that year, Armistice Night, at the end"
"threw a pie onto the pitch which Quinn promptly picked up and ate. The chant even formed the title for Quinn's autobiography, which was published in 2003. During cricket matches, the chant is known to have been directed at players such as Shane Warne, by spectators belonging to the Barmy Army. In a February 2017 incident dubbed ""piegate"", 23-stone Sutton goalkeper Wayne Shaw was fined and suspended by the FA, for eating a pie on television, in breach of gambling laws. Who Ate All the Pies? ""Who Ate All the Pies?"" is a football chant sung by fans in the"
"to the waist, displaying his ample abdomen. The Vegetarian Society have used a variant of this, ""Who ate all the peas?"", as a slogan. They displayed it on promotional hoardings in football grounds as part of their ""Men and Meat Campaign"", intended to combat the idea that vegetarianism is unmanly. The chant has been associated with the striker Micky Quinn, who played for six football clubs in the 1980s and 1990s. He was particularly identified with the chant following an incident in a match between Quinn's then club Newcastle United and Grimsby Town in March 1992, in which a fan"
"City. After being discovered playing for village side Blackwell in a Derbyshire Cup tie at Ilkeston Town, Foulke made his debut for Sheffield United against West Bromwich Albion on 1 September 1894 and led the team to three FA Cup finals (winning two) and a League Championship. According to ""The Cat's Pyjamas: The Penguin Book of Cliches"" (), the ""Who ate all the pies?"" chant was first sung in 1894 by Sheffield United supporters, and directed at Foulke's 300 lb (about 136 kg). He also won a single international cap for England in 1897 against Wales. At the end of"
"of the song (the third line - ""You fat bastard"") has been adopted by Roy ""Chubby"" Brown as his anthem and is enthusiastically chanted by the audiences during his stage performances. In addition, the entire chant was sung by Brown and the audience at the end of his 2013 DVD release ""Who Ate All the Pies?"" This line was also chanted at gigs by '90s indie band Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine and included as the intro on their album ""30 Something"". It was chanted at their manager Jon Fat Beast, who had a tendency to appear on stage stripped"
"chants, which are one of the last remaining sources of an oral folk song tradition in the UK. Chants include ""You're Not Singing Any More"" (or its variant ""We Can See You Sneaking Out!""), sung by jubilant fans towards the opposition fans who have gone silent (or left early). Many teams in the UK have their own club anthem or have a song closely associated with them, for example ""Local Hero"" by Dire Straits frontman and Newcastle United fan Mark Knopfler is played before the start of every Newcastle home game. Throughout the UK, meat pies (as well as burgers"
"and his mother died of cancer the following year. Quinn left the Greek club in February 1996 and decided to retire from playing professionally. Quinn appeared on the BBC's ""Football Focus"" as part of their ""Cult Heroes"" series in 2005, inspired by his relatively prolific two seasons at Highfield Road. When at Coventry City, Quinn was nicknamed 'Sumo' and famously quoted that he was the Premier League's ""fastest player over a yard"". Quinn attracted the crowd chant of ""Who Ate All the Pies?"" due to his physique, which he used as the title of his 2003 autobiography. Other nicknames included"
"The Greasy Chip Butty Song ""The Greasy Chip Butty Song"" is a football chant originally sung by the supporters of Sheffield United football club to the tune of ""Annie's Song"", glorifying life in Sheffield, in chief the eponymous chip butty but also nightlife, beer and tobacco products. The song with its good-natured humour has been adopted and adapted by fans of a number of other Association Football teams, other football codes teams, and by other sports teams, both in the UK and internationally. The provenance of the song is unknown but its origin is often claimed by Sheffield United supporters."
"Honey Pie ""Honey Pie"" is a song by the Beatles, from their 1968 eponymous album ""The Beatles"", also known as ""the White Album"". The song was written entirely by Paul McCartney, but is credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is a direct homage to the British music hall style. It concerns a famed actress, called only by the term of endearment ""Honey Pie"", who becomes famous in the United States, and her old lover, who wishes for her to rejoin him in England. The premise – a humble admirer yearning for the return of his lover – is not unlike a"
"""Glad All Over"" was reissued as a single in the UK, coupled with ""Good Old Rock 'n' Roll"" and ""Having a Wild Weekend"". The reissue reached No.37 on the UK Singles Chart. Crystal Palace Football Club adopted the song as their anthem in the 1960s. It is played at the start of all home games, and after full-time (when Palace win). The chorus is played after home goals, after the goalscorer's name is read out. It is also sung by fans as a chant. On Saturday 10 February 1968, The Dave Clark Five played ""Glad All Over"" live at Crystal"
"& Patti, The Pixies, and John Pizzarelli, among others. In the 1978 film ""Sextette"", Dom DeLuise performed the song. Phish covered the song, with many other ""White Album"" songs, on the album ""Live Phish Volume 13"". In 2016 Wesley Schultz sang it in ""Beat Bugs"" episode 12b. The Beatles Additional musicians Honey Pie ""Honey Pie"" is a song by the Beatles, from their 1968 eponymous album ""The Beatles"", also known as ""the White Album"". The song was written entirely by Paul McCartney, but is credited to Lennon–McCartney. The song is a direct homage to the British music hall style. It"
"the song to be used for all sports, not just football. The two mascots present at all football games are Ralphie, a live buffalo, and Chip, a costumed mascot who was selected to the 2003 Capital One All-America Mascot Team and won the 2009 and 2010 UCA Mascot National Championships. Ralphie is actually Ralphie V and leads the football team onto the field at the beginning of the first and second halves. A buffalo leading the team onto the field dates as far back as 1934 and the Ralphie tradition began in 1966. In 1934 after the selection of ""Buffaloes"""
"Palace's home, Selhurst Park. A cover version, sung by the squad at the time, was released as part of their FA Cup run (where they reached the final of the competition) in 1990. Blackpool have also used Glad All Over, played after a home goal is scored, and other English Football League teams including Rotherham United, Port Vale, Swindon Town and Yeovil Town have followed suit. It has also been used by Scottish Football League clubs Partick Thistle and Dunfermline Athletic F.C. when they score a goal. Woking F.C. have also played the song as part of their celebrations on"
"Marching In"" and the tune of Handel's ""Hallelujah"" chorus. Many football crowd chants/songs are to the tune of ""La donna è mobile"" from Giuseppe Verdi's opera ""Rigoletto"", for example the chant by Derby County fans in honour of Fabrizio Ravanelli of ""We've got Fabrizio, you've got fuck allio"". Italian tifosi employ various operatic arie, especially those by Giuseppe Verdi, for chants. Italian Torino fans sing their signature chant ""Toro alè"" to the tune of French anthem ""La Marsellaise"". Some chants are based on spirituals. ""We shall not be moved"" and ""He's Got the Whole World in His Hands"" are both"
"panoply of classic British rock touchstones like psychedelia, slick country rock, Ian Dury, the Who, Elton John, and Madchester."" The album's title is a reference to a popular football chant of the same name, with Williams being a fan of Port Vale F.C. The cover art features multiple images of Williams celebrating winning a trophy at Chelsea's stadium Stamford Bridge. Initial releases do not feature Williams' name or the album title on the front cover, nor is a track listing featured on the back cover; these were all changed for future releases. The images were taken by photographer Paul M."
"Palace mascot ""Pete the Eagle"" in the late nineties, fronted a series of Coca-Cola advertisements in 1996. Blackwell spoke about his role and the embarrassment it brought to his family, and clips of him in costume were used in the campaign. The 2008 episode of ""The IT Crowd"", ""Are We Not Men?"", used Selhurst Park to film the crowd scenes. After the band The Dave Clark Five performed ""Glad All Over"" at the stadium in 1968, the song became synonymous with the team, and the fans sing it at every match. Crystal Palace Ladies is the women's football club affiliated"
"in ""Record World"". It was the fastest Beach Boys seller to date, moving more than half a million copies in less than two weeks after release. In 1968, the recording's instrumental was released on ""Stack-O-Tracks"". Along with sessions highlights, the box set ""The Pet Sounds Sessions"" includes two alternate takes, one with Carl Wilson singing lead on the first verse, and one with Brian singing all parts. It has been popular amongst English football fans since the mid-2000s. It was adopted by the supporters of English non-league team F.C. United of Manchester as a club anthem in 2007. Since then"
"Glory Glory (football chant) ""Glory Glory"" is a terrace chant sung in association football in the United Kingdom and in other sport. It uses the tune of the American Civil War song ""The Battle Hymn of the Republic"", with the chorus ""Glory, Glory, Hallelujah"" – the chant replaces ""Hallelujah"" with the name of the favoured team. The chant's popularity has caused several clubs to release their version as an official team song. It is believed that Tottenham Hotspur may have been the first English football club to sing the song as a football chant in 1960 when it prevented Wolves"
"the song was the theme song of the FIFA World Cup. The song is an unofficial football chant adopted by the Montserrat national football team. During games in which they score at least four goals, the Philadelphia Flyers play this song at the Wells Fargo Center after the fourth goal. Fans in attendance receive a free hot breakfast sandwich from McDonald's the next day. The Toronto Maple Leafs used this song as a goal song from 1996-1999 whenever the Leafs scored a goal at their home rink. The song is used as the walk-on tune for the 2018 PDC Darts"
"She replied, ""A football song"". Renée Fleming sang the song at the Concert for America, which marked the first anniversary of 9/11 (11/9), and for the Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. In 2010, this was sung during the festivities of the Last Night of the Proms, with the choir at the Royal Albert Hall joined by crowds of the public from Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland; Caird Hall, Dundee; Hyde Park, London; Salford, Greater Manchester; and Wales, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Oscar Hammerstein II. In the second season of American Horror Story, this"
"at Wembley Stadium after Millwall gained promotion to the Championship in 2010. The song ""Shoeshine Boy"" by the Mills Blue Rhythm Band was played as the entrance song before ""Let 'em Come"". Other songs that have been regularly played at The Den over the years in the build-up to a game include ""London Calling"" by The Clash, ""No Surrender"" by Bruce Springsteen, ""Town Called Malice"" by The Jam and ""House of Fun"" by Madness, which features the lyric ""welcome to the lion's den..."". Status Quo's cover version of ""Rockin' All Over the World"" is played after every home win. Millwall"
"in several versions in 1962. Johnny Keating's version (Piccadilly Records, 7N.35032) sold the best, reaching #8 on the Record Retailer chart and as high as #5 on some UK charts, whilst the Norrie Paramor Orchestra's version, on Columbia DB 4789, peaked at #33. A vocal version of the theme, using the original ballad's words, was released by cast member James Ellis on Philips Records; this missed the charts. The song in Spiegl and Fry's arrangement is also used as the anthem for English football club Everton and is played at every home match as they walk onto the pitch at"
"sung by Chesterfield fans, usually whenever the Spireites look to be 'sailing' to victory. A much faster-tempo version of the melody is used by Millwall F.C. fans for their famous chant ""No one likes us, we don't care"". ""I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"" is used by West Ham United supporters. The pop standard was adopted by supporters at Upton Park in the mid-1920s. Before every game, Norwich City fans sing ""On the Ball, City"", a song which has been described as the world's oldest football song still in use today. Gateshead supporters sing ""Trail of the Lonesome Pine"" from the film"
"Guildhall) clock bells, which had inspired the chant. Royal Artillery (Portsmouth) F.C. were disqualified for ""professionalism"" after an 1898–99 FA Amateur Cup match. Royal Artillery were also forced to field only a team of amateur reserve players, thus weakening the remaining Royal Artillery team for the remainder of the 1898–99 Southern Football League season. Royal Artillery finished bottom of the table, relegated after a relegation match with Cowes F.C. and were eventually disbanded. The ""Pompey"" nickname, the ""Town Hall Chimes"" chant, some of the Royal Artillery players and their supporters then migrated to a newly formed football club, named Portsmouth"
"he moved to Sutton United alongside Eastleigh's manager Paul Doswell but returned to Eastleigh as a player-coach two years later. During his career, Shaw would often be subject to the ""Who ate all the pies?"" football chant. While playing for Sutton United, Shaw was involved in an altercation with fans of Kingstonian prior to a Surrey Senior Cup match in December 2013 where he jumped over advertising hoardings and headbutted a fan who was insulting him about his weight. He was released by Sutton following the incident. Following a brief period with Gosport Borough, where he was the goalkeeping coach"
"a postmodern national football anthem, although most of the lyrics are fairly nonsensical or as ""The Guardian"" put it ""irritating, pretentiously proletarian jape"". B&Q use the music (with altered lyrics) to advertise their Tradepoint concession on their in store marketing. The music video for the song is a parody of the video for ""Bitter Sweet Symphony"" by The Verve, which was itself inspired by the music video for ""Unfinished Sympathy"" by Massive Attack. The video is recorded in the same street, and features comedian Paul Kaye as a Richard Ashcroft lookalike forcing his way down the street. Unlike the original"
"home European tie. The song has also been adopted by Dutch team FC Twente after it was officially given to them by the former Anfield stadiumspeaker George Septhon during the last game in the Diekman stadium, before moving to the new Arke Stadion . Today, Twente fans sing the song before every home game. Feyenoord and SC Cambuur have adopted the song as well. Germany's Borussia Dortmund, 1. FSV Mainz 05, TSV 1860 Munich, Japan's F.C. Tokyo, Spain's CD Lugo. the Marist St. Pats MSP 80/80 Blues, and Bali United. In ice hockey, the song has been adopted by German"
"the Chengdu Blades, the ""Sheffield Star"" penned the following version - the Greasy Egg Noodle song. The Greasy Chip Butty Song ""The Greasy Chip Butty Song"" is a football chant originally sung by the supporters of Sheffield United football club to the tune of ""Annie's Song"", glorifying life in Sheffield, in chief the eponymous chip butty but also nightlife, beer and tobacco products. The song with its good-natured humour has been adopted and adapted by fans of a number of other Association Football teams, other football codes teams, and by other sports teams, both in the UK and internationally. The"
"been popular as the basis of football chants at a number of clubs: according to a ""Guardian"" article this originated at Newcastle United F.C. where fans started singing a chant about player Chancel Mbemba in the autumn of 2015. It was also adapted by fans of the England national football team at the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia: """"Woah, England are in Russia / Woah, drinking all the vodka / Woah, England’s going all the way"""". A remix of the song was released by Sony Music in 1999 under the title ""September '99"", reaching No. 25 on the UK"
"Cherry Pie (Warrant song) ""Cherry Pie"" is a song by the American rock band Warrant. It was released in September 1990 as the lead single from the album of the same name. The song became a Top Ten hit on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, reaching number 10 and also reached number 19 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks. The song has been cited by many as a ""rock anthem"". In 2009, it was named the 56th best hard rock song of all time by VH1. Despite its success, a daylong MTV special on the best and worst music videos of all"
"Rough Trade, the title being a clear pun on James Brown's ""Papa's Got A Brand New Bag"". The track quickly became an underground dance hit, selling many thousands of copies and charting well. The song, and the Paul Oakenfold remix Reach Up (Papa's Got A Brand New Pigbag) has become a stadium anthem in English football (particularly in the Football League), originally adopted by Middlesbrough F.C, often played or chanted before a match or at half time, or after the scoring of a goal, and often incorporating the name of a player into the song. Around this time Hamlin left"
"""I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"" with amended lyrics when Park players played well. Beal was a friend of Paynter, while Murray was a West Ham trialist and played football at schoolboy level with a number of West Ham players such as Jim Barrett. Through this contrivance of association the club's fans took it upon themselves to begin singing the popular music hall tune before home games, sometimes reinforced by the presence of a house band requested to play the refrain by Charlie Paynter. As a tribute to West Ham United, the punk rock band the Cockney Rejects covered the song in"
"mascots Goleo and Pille travelling around the world until they eventually arrive to Berlin's Olympic Stadium, the setting of the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final. It was only released in German speaking Europe. It reached no. 16 in Germany, becoming their fifth highest charting single over there. It peaked at no.35 and no.42 in Austria and Switzerland. In May 1995, the song was released by Everton F.C. on occasion of its appearance in the 1995 FA Cup Final. The hit credited to ""Everton FA Cup Squad 1995"" peaked at 24 in the UK Singles chart. The release also contained a"