Have you ever started a song in the crowd? If so how many or how often?

Before the Green Brigade it used to be easier to start a song at our games. I used to do it a lot. My record was 12 away at Dunfermline one of the Strachan seasons.

I used to find especially at away games that if I was the right amount of pished I could start songs quite confidently and it would spread. I was good at it!

Green Brigade sing all game now and it's different. But just wondering if anyone else thought they were good at starting songs and any related stories.....

 

I started a hail hail once I Celtic park, funnily enough in the section which is now were the GB. I was only wee and I * * myself when everyone else joined in! I was so embarrassed! Didn’t know what to do, really didn’t expect the whole place to join in!

 

Have done it walking through the crowds to the grounds dozens of times. In the stadium, only a handful. These are my favourites:

Back before the GB, in the ill-fated Mowbray season, when my bro and I still had seats in the Lisbon Lions, we started off ‘stand up if you hate the Huns’ at an OF game (remember those?), and it spread around the corner, right across the NS and into a bit of the JS.

Started up ‘In the Heat of Lisbon’ with my mate on a freezing cold midweek winter’s night at Rugby Park back sometime in the mid-2010s - maybe 2014. Was in the days that they had that money-grabbing chairman, Michael Johnston, who used to give us what felt like three-quarters of their ground when we came down. There was a pitiful number of home supporters out, and the football was pretty uninspiring, so when the chant went up, it carried right the way around. Felt and sounded great on what was threatening to be a poor night. Ended up with a comfortable win in the end.

Similar happened the same season, at McDiarmid, with a good turnout stretched across two of their stands. Again, midweek, and had driven up straight from work on a clear spring evening. In they days, there were a couple of seasons where the pies at McDiarmid were among the best in the country.
I’d just snaffled a steak wan, and we were at least one up at the time, when big Efe, the bold yin, gathers the ball in our box, and casually wanders about 30 yards with it like he’s Beckenbauer, skinning 2 St J players in the process, only to ping the ball straight to David Wotherspoon, who unleashed a belter of a Sebo that went about 5 miles over Forster’s head.
The silliness of the whole moment, and the merriment of having just scuttled a pie n Bovril, led to me kicking off, ‘Efe Ambrose, Ballon D’Or’, and it went across most of the away support.

 

A few times aye but haven’t even attempted it for a few years now. Most recent one wasn’t actually at the game, it was starting the Calmac song in the Melbourne CSC at the start of this season. I only get to 3-5 games a season now (one being a Euro away) so I just enjoy watching the players live when I do go.

 

No but I did once start a rousing rendition of "David Murray has no legs" in the queue for the bar at a Charlie and the Bhoys gig that ended up with the entire upstairs bar singing it

 

Always a tough watch when you see said attempt fall on deaf ears.

Having seen numerous failed attempts in my younger years, and the subsequent fallout, I’ve never held an interest in such a venture.

 

I have seen many failed attempts aswell.

Guys getting all the way to the 2nd verse of Fields of Athenrye before they realise thst nobody is joining in and stuff

I've seen some cringeworthy attempts aswell


Someone must start "let's all do the huddle" on their own with their back to the game....just themselves

Mexican waves aswell. Oaft

 

I started 'We're going to celebrate' after the 95 Scottish Cup Final.. it was an incredible weight lifted. And we did..

 

Started a chant of David Murray canna ski on a bus to Manchester for the champions league game that naka scored

 

Only thing I’ve ever started is that roar of encouragement when the team goes down a goal in the Champions league

Even that nobody joins in with any more. The days of that atmosphere are gone.

 

It's the match DJ who is severely pish at times. Most notable during Champions League and Glasgow derbies. Nae idea how to work a crowd up.

I mean he cannae exactly put Eire Og on. But his playlist can be and is usually pretty bad.

That "Four Leaf Clover on my chest..." song is my least favourite of all. It is pish and cheesy. The fans don't even sing it during the games. Why do u keep blasting it down the tannoy every game?

 

Oh dear.

I’ve also seen the huddle go down like a lead balloon.

 

I mind about 30 year ago just after the new stadium was finished, I was there with my uncle, and there was 2 lads in the row in front of us carrying on trying to get chants going. Just the two of them constantly standing up on their seats and belting * out whilst everyone else was silent. And halfway through the first half ma uncles goes 'Do yous two mind sittin doon and shuttin the * up?' and they went from being the loudest most annoying * in the section to being glued to their chairs in silence for the rest of the match. When we scored I mind one of them turned round like he wanted to make sure it was alright he was cheering. I've never tried to get a chant going.

 

@Double Dutch and I have started a few “Sack the board” and “Lawwell out” chants but if you ask him he’ll sadly deny it.

 

Who's this Lawwell you speak of? Never heard of him.

 

Aye there's no way I'm making an * of myself

Been done a few times mid song as it dies out and I'm in full gusto swing but you won't catch me starting any unless im nutted and in a food group of my own..

 

No but I did recently start a song at the pub for a chant that doesn't even exist. Was "Ohhh Daizen Maeda" to the tune of Seven Nation Army.

If I have done this at the ground I was likely too pished to remember. I am normally the guy that helps out the guy who tries to start the chant tbf.

 

The Jungle Bhoys were a singing section. There wasn't many of them. But they sang all game too

 

Aye I’ve seen many a man commit to a second verse/chorus as the song ebbs away