I've been watching some of The Big Match Revisited shows that have been on the tv recently and it just struck me the amount of chants that were really familiar back in the '70's and '80's that you just don't hear anymore.

If a team were to go ahead against you or even just equalize the chant from the terraces would be
"You're gonna get your f***ing heads kicked in"

Towards the ref if there was a dodgy decision,
Who's your father, who's your father,
Who's your father referee,
Haven't got one,
Never had one,
You're a illegitimate referee.

If there was just a bit of handbags on the pitch it'd be,
Grimsby aggro, Grimsby aggro, hello hello.

Plus,
In your (whoever you were playing) slums,
You look in the dustbin for something to eat,
You find a dead rat and you think it's a treat,
In your (xxxx) slums.

When your team scored a goal it'd simply be,
Here we go
Here we go
Here we go
etc etc

Also one of the games today was Chelsea v Blackpool and the Chelsea fans were singing "You'll never walk alone"

Any other long lost footy chants?

My Dad used to sing this all the time round the house:

Bertie Mee said To Bill Shankly
'Have you ever heard of the North Bank, Highbury?'
Shanks said 'No,
I don't think so,
But I've heard of the Pontoon, GRIMSBY!

Am I imagining this and can any old stagers like me confirm or deny it, but was there a chant

Zigga Zagga Zigga Zagga Oi Oi Oi !

Quoted from Ipswin

Am I imagining this and can any old stagers like me confirm or deny it, but was there a chant

Zigga Zagga Zigga Zagga Oi Oi Oi !

Yes definitely 100%. However, I can’t for the life of me remember whether it was a football chant.

"You're going home in a Grimsby ambulance."

Quoted from Ipswin

Am I imagining this and can any old stagers like me confirm or deny it, but was there a chant

Zigga Zagga Zigga Zagga Oi Oi Oi !

"Zigger Zagger"
The "zigger zagger" is a derivative of the oggie, oggie, oggie chant. An oggie is Cornish slang for a Cornish pastie and legend has it that this was called out by Cornish woman to make their menfolk aware that they were about to drop the freshly baked pasties down the tin mine. The original chant was adopted locally by the navy and later used at rugby matches. Famous Chelsea supporter, Mickey Greenaway, may well have invented the zigger zagger version as there is little doubt that he introduced this to the football terraces (together with several other chants and songs) in the early sixties. With his booming voice, he would bark out the call and the crowd would reply with an oi, oi, oi. Later the title of a National Youth Theatre play written by Peter Terson in the late 60's about growing up in the terrace culture of the time.

"You can run, you can hide, but you'll still go in the tide!"

"Eyes right, foreskins tight, arseholes to the front, we are the boys who make no noise we're always after girl private" Think, somehow this one might be subject to the swear checker!

"Who's that tw4t in the big black hat? Scuffer..."

Benny the Docker
The co*k of the north
He drinks in the morning and nighttime of course
He only drinks whisky and bottles of brown
'Cause Benny the dockers in town.

nanananana

His brothers in borstal
His Mams got the pox
His sisters a whore on the Immingham docks
His grandads a nutter
His uncle went mad
The Yorkshire Rippers his dad

or something like that. I haven't heard it since the early 80s

You're old lady is a whore

it's just like watching Juve......Juve it's just like watching Juve...

Strolling, just strolling,
In the shade of the Pontoon stand,
We don't envy the Kop with their Liverpool stars,
the Stretford End's a phoney,
the Pontoon's one and only.

To the tune of Strolling by Flanagan and Allen.

Some great ones there better than those of today IMO

Equally shared towards coppers and the ref
You black illegitimate
you black illegitimate

I hear the sound of distant bums,over there, over there and do they smell like f****** hell

The one from my youth which makes me cringe with embarrassment today is that one lauding Harry Roberts the cop killer, what possessed us.

Used to like Knees up Mother Brown and from the Banks of the River Humber to the Shores of Sicily and We’ll take Scunthorpe in half a minute, with hatchets and hammers, carving knives and spanner’s....etc.

Great place the Pontoon in the 70’s especially

To the tune of wandering star :
“I was born under the Pontoon Stand, Na Na, NaNa Na”.

Remember that belting out of a pub in Coventry and a couple of locals saying “Grimsby are taking the urine” as they left. Which was the point of filling someone else pub with loads of very noisy Town fans

"The Yorkshire ripper is my friend, he kills yorkies " 😉

Jack Catley is a weatherman

Great thread. You don’t tend to hear this one anymore:

He's only a poor little Yorkie,
His face is all tattered and torn,
He made me feel sick,
So I hit him with a brick,
And now he don't sing any more...

That, and the “you’re shìt, argh” upon the opposition keeper taking a goal kick.

Quoted from gytone

"The Yorkshire ripper is my friend, he kills yorkies " 😉

Also, remember...

One Peter Sutcliffe
There's only one Peter Sutcliffe
One Peter Suuuuuuuuutcliffe
...

    "Give us a goal, give us a goal, all we are saying is give us a goal!" This to the tune of "Give peace a chance." To be fair, we heard this one an awful lot some years!

Oh we do like to be beside the seaside
Oh we do like to be beside the sea
With an ammer in me hand
Knocking Yorkies in the sand
Beside the seaside
Beside the sea


Old McDonald too 😂😂😂

Tiptoe through the Pontoon,
With me boots on and me sawn off shotgun;
Tiptoe through the Pontoon with me.

Ooh it’s a corner, ooh it’s a corner!!

One man went to kill, went to kill a Yorkie etc...



Always excrement on the North side of the bridge.

"Let's pretend we scored a goal" cue the fans going absolutely crazy for no reason

"You're not fit to wear that shirt" to Barnsley keeper Kevin Miller when kit clash meant he had to wear a town shirt

We shall not, we shall not be moved
We shall not, we shall not be moved
Just like a team that's gonna win the (football league/FA Cup)
We shall not be moved.

Not sure if it's cos of the lack of success of Town recently, but I've not heard that chant for ages (apart from on The Big Match Revisted from 1977 this morning)

When we get promotion this is what we will sing he hi he hi he ho Stuart brace is king
And
Matt tees Matt tees born is the king of blundell Park

Quoted from mariner83

One man went to kill, went to kill a Yorkie etc...

I can only ever remember this being sung at it was Rotherham away, where Livvo and Oster combined to score in a one nil win and the crowd where singing from start to finish and the One man went to kill did the round and went mental at the end of the song.

Remember this one......?

We’ve got Dave Dave Dave Dave  Boylen on our wing.....on our wing.....
Davey,Davey Boylen....

My wife just told me to stop humming that stupid noise......lol !

Not exactly a chant but when an opposing defender
wellied the ball into touch everyone would scream out

" Windyyyy "

If I had the eye of an eagle
And I had the bottom of a crow
I'd fly over Scunthorpe tomorrow
And sh#t on the b######s below

This is going back a long way:
(to the tune of "Michael Row the Boat Ashore"

Do you remember '66 ?
Hallelujah !
Surely you remember this,
Hallelujah !
How it feels to be in heaven,
Hallelujah !
Scunthorpe 1 and Grimsby 7,
Hallelujah !!!!

Who's that Tw4t in the big black hat
Scuffer, Scuffer
Who's that Tw4t in the big black hat
Scuffer is his name

On the beer all day
On the wife all night
Who's that Tw4t in the big black hat
Scuffer is his name

Popular in the Pontoon back in the day.

Quoted from TheRealJohnLewis

I can only ever remember this being sung at it was Rotherham away, where Livvo and Oster combined to score in a one nil win and the crowd where singing from start to finish and the One man went to kill did the round and went mental at the end of the song.

We played Huddersfield at the (what was then) mcalpine one Boxing Day. There was probably well over 3000 town there that day and I remember that being sung in the first half. Noisy isn’t the word


Then there’s the famous clip from goals on Sunday with John helm commentating on town beating bradfud. ‘Yorkies Yorkies what’s the score, is the chant coming from the Grimsby fans’

8-0
8-0
8-0
8-0
8-0
8-0000000

Oh, maybe you do 😎

Quoted from WOZOFGRIMSBY

We played Huddersfield at the (what was then) mcalpine one Boxing Day. There was probably well over 3000 town there that day and I remember that being sung in the first half. Noisy isn’t the word


Then there’s the famous clip from goals on Sunday with John helm commentating on town beating bradfud. ‘Yorkies Yorkies what’s the score, is the chant coming from the Grimsby fans’

I think it was Nick Powell who uttered those infamous words Woz.

When I joined the RAF in 1985, every Saturday 8 or 9 of us would go to the nearest game where one of our teams was playing.  So we ended up at Craven Cottage, after about the 10th rendition they all joined in and kept going until the end of the game....

‘Ooh to be ah, ooh to be a Mariner.  Ooh ah ooh ah ooh to be a Mariner’

Happy days.

Sadly we weren’t playing in yorkie land so my personal favourite wasn’t aired...

Forever and ever,
We’ll follow our team,
It’s Grimsby Town and,
We rule supreme,
We’ll never be mastered,
By you Yorkshire BÀSTARDS
The Grimsby (clap, clap, clap)

Yorkshire Ripper is our friend, is our friend, is our friend....

Sooper, Sooper Clive, Sooper, Sooper Clive

Sooper Clive Mendonca

When a player goes down "injured"

stamp on his head, stamp on his head, etc

We all follow the Grimsby...over land and sea and YORKSHIRE!

Walking down the Grimsby Road to see the (insert manager's name) aces.

Take my hand...take my whole heart too...cos I can't help falling in love with you...the Grimsby!

Score in a brothel...you couldn't score in a brothel.

(Opposition player) shits his underpants.

Come in a taxi...you must have come in a taxi.

Like a packet of Woodbines, like a barrel of Tetley's.

Whoooaaa! Whoooaaa! We are the Grimsby boys.

Buckley, give us a wave, Buckley, Buckley hive us a wave?

Buckley, what's the score? Buckley, Buckley what's the score?

They're scruffy and they're smelly, they can't afford a telly, the Yorkie family.

Up at 5 o'clock, walking round the dock, 6ft icicles hanging off his member

...when Grimsby sing the Yorkies ran away.

When i was just a little boy I asked my father who should it be...should it be Scunthorpe, should it be Town? Here's what he said to me.

Can't remember if was us or the away fans who serenaded Batchy with: "Nigel needs a haircut."

Ramsdens 1 Harrods 0 against Fulham.

Funniest away chat was Bolton at BP "There's only one Fish in Grimsby" to their captain Mark Fish.

You're so excrement it's unbelievable!

Hillsborough away in 97 as the Wendy's kept scoring and hundreds of Harry Haddocks were simultaneously deflated..."We're so excrement it's unbelievable!"

Let's go fuckung mental / let's all have a disco

Attack, attack, attack atrack attack.

Geddintoum! Geddintoum! Geddintoum!

Findus give us a song.

Last couple from me...

Whistling the Laurel and Hardy theme tune every time a copper walked past the Pontoon.

And the ditty to any woman walking past.

Quoted from Withnail

Last couple from me...

Whistling the Laurel and Hardy theme tune every time a copper walked past the Pontoon.

And the ditty to any woman walking past.

It was "Get your mammaries out for the lads"
Don't be scared fella, if you mean it say it.

Hi Ho Grimsby, Grimsby Hi Ho.  - not very imaginative

Away the lads,
sure to see us coming
fastest team in the land
always in the running
see the smiles on he lad's and lasses' faces
walking down the Grimsby Road
to see the Newman's aces.

you don't seem to hear as much

"we love you Grimsby we do"

or

"Attack Attack, Attack Attack Attack"

like i did during the early 90's.