It's also boring as hell hearing the same chant each week. If it's not us singing it at team X, it's team Y singing it us. And the same song is being sung at every game in the country. Yawn. There's no edge to it, no imagination, no wit, no originality and no identity to it. It doesn't engage the opposition fans as they are so use to hearing it/singing it every week as well. It doesn't support your side and half of our own fans are too embarrassed by the pathetic nature of it to join in anyway, so it doesn't create any atmosphere either.
This isn't about sanitisation, it's about the homogenisation of football. That song has nothing unique to identify it to Southend and nothing unique to identify it about Dagenham other than the interchangeable place name either. Pretending that we have some sort of rivalry with Dagenham is laughable. We don't and that song added absolutely no "edge" to proceedings.
I have taken my son's, and various freind's son's and daughter's to see Southend play for many years. All from the age of about 7years old. I have always told them from the first match onwards that they must rember that " Wot goes on at football stay's at football, " when songs are sung that are a bit "iffy" or someone F' and blinds" at the ref or players. And if their Mother or parents find out that they have been singing any of these song's, or go around lord mayoring at school,home ect, I wont be able to bring them along again. Now i have found this has worked in two way's.I'd say calling someone's sister a slag and that someone else fingers their mum was not ideal to listen to whilst watching a recent match with one of my kids. Next generation shouldn't be kept away from games and that is a danger.
I have taken my son's, and various freind's son's and daughter's to see Southend play for many years. All from the age of about 7years old. I have always told them from the first match onwards that they must rember that " Wot goes on at football stay's at football, " when songs are sung that are a bit "iffy" or someone F' and blinds" at the ref or players. And if their Mother or parents find out that they have been singing any of these song's, or go around lord mayoring at school,home ect, I wont be able to bring them along again. Now i have found this has worked in two way's.
1. They all now support Southend United, well my youngest 18 also follows Manure but i do have the exscuse that he moved to Glasgow at 7 years old with his mother after our divorce and I only had him under my influance for short holidays ect. His elder brother, who incidently cooks for a lot of you, your tea at the Fish House,then gets off early to watch most of the second half is a chip off the old block. stands up, sings at the top of his voice, even wanted to get involved in helping the stewards to stop the leeds scum fans getting into the west stand when they tried to push the gates down at half time between west and east a few seasons ago.
2.
Contrast that to the away matches at Southampton where their fans totally love us, or Doncaster where everyone with Sky TV loved us - that makes you proud to be a Shrimper and if all teams remembered us like that I'd see that as a big improvement.
I don't think you have ever aspired to being lovable.No wonder we were loved at both away games, we were given a ****ing good hiding on the pitch. I don't think our support should aspire to being 'loveable losers'.
I don't think you have ever aspired to being lovable.
Too many to mention...........Most far better than the "s***hole" chant which even I am beginning to find repetitive,boring,unoriginal and a lot of the time wrong...... It did'nt seem like a proper away match at Dagenham on Saturday. With both my parents coming from Ilford I spent a lot of my informative years backwards and forward from Leigh to Dagenham,Barking,Beacontree Heath,etc visiting friends and relatives. The area was like a second home.Even went to Daggers ground a few times around 40 years ago. If you saw the state of it then you can't help but be impressed by the transformation. It's a palace now by comparision.hit im on the ead
hit im on the ead
hit im on the ead with a baseball bat
oh yeah
oh yeah
or ifd i ad the wings of a sparrow
if i had the arse of a crow
id fly over ******* tommoroww
and **** on the *******s below
or your gonna die outside
your gonna die outside
your gonna die
your gonna die outside
to the tune of thoise were the days
any other good 70's 80's chants
their fans started the 'you come from the sh*t part of Essex' chant. It made me laugh, to be honest.
You sing insulting songs at football. It's called having a laugh. No one takes offence just as I don't take offence at people singing songs about Southend. It's called grown men having a bit of a laugh and letting off a bit of steam.
Life is too serious as it is.
The fact that all the songs stay the same and you just substitute one clubs name for another proves that it's nothing personal. I think you'll find most towns in the UK have areas you could describe as ****holes.
COME ON YOU BLUE BOYS!
The fact that all the songs stay the same and you just substitute one clubs name for another proves that it's nothing personal.