[Football] Sky coverage.

[lawros left foot]

No, he’s not comparing where the songs originated from. I think he’s comparing a few thousand Brighton fans mumbling through GOSBTS, checking the lyrics on a screen vs 50 odd thousand blaring out YNWA. (Like I said earlier, I despise all things Scouse, but to compare these 2 football anthems is quite frankly, ridiculous)

Funnily enough, when we played against Rome in the Europa League, we didn’t have words on the big screen or on the pitch side advertising boards, and we were much louder.

Personally, I’ve known the words for years, it doesn’t take much to learn them, it’s a great anthem, completely unique to us.

I believe that YNWA is also sung by Celtic( I may be wrong on that)

 

[jonny.rainbow]

Celtic fans sung YNWA first.

Even Man Utd sung it. It’s a shit anthem and anyone who has been to Anfield that has heard anything other than Gerry Marsden bellowing it at 1,000 dB has the world’s most acute hearing.

Sussex by the Sea > You’ll Never Walk Alone

 

[WATFORD zero]

It’s a world famous anthem isn’t it that is bigger than football, sung by many of those outside football, so no need for angst. When Lana del Ray covers GOSBTS we may be in with a shout

I think a significant part of the world will know it as a Howard Keel song from the Musical Oklahoma! It may well be up there with 'Don't cry for me Argentina', 'Maria', 'The Timewarp' and 'You're the One that I want' amongst the world's most famous and popular musical showtunes, but because a scouse pop group were amongst hundreds who covered it, I really can't see the relevance.

And if it's a decibel competition, I'd put forward Radio ga-ga at Live Aid (another song I can't stand).

Personally I like something local, relevant, reflective and poignant when the Albion come out, but maybe that's just me

 

[mothy]

Sorry, but SBtS is awful compared to YNWA. Thats with the words on the screens too.

YNWA is a horrible drivel of a sound (& sumg by ****s) compared to the upbeat SBtS.

 

[Weststander]

@AmexRuislip . On the day when you’d have thought the entire fanbase might be happy, instead a thread like flypaper drawing in bitter folk jealous of Liverpool.

 

[C1 BHA]

People on here with +50k posts to their names!

can I suggest you get out more?

 

[Sid and the Sharknados]

I'm glad I don't have the ears of anybody who thinks You'll Never Walk Alone isn't a good song. Football aside, it's an absolute cracker.

Celtic fans sung YNWA first.

Is there any actual evidence for this, as opposed to the (possibly untrue but at least eminently plausible) story that they picked it up after playing Liverpool in a European game later in the 60s?

 

[Guy Fawkes]

In short, our fans don't all know the words and lack the ability to sing in time. So it sounds shite - not much point showing it.

A great anthem ruined by the way it gets sung at The Amex.

Agreed, it was always sung as and we're going up to win the cup ......

 

[Green Cross Code Man]

Doesn’t your remote have a volume control or mute button?

We should be allowed a non commentator version. We pay enough.

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Doesn’t your remote have a volume control or mute button?

I think he means having the option to listen with crowd noise only, like being at the game. I’d much prefer that and it has been an option in the past, but I can’t recall which channel offered it.

 

[jackanada]

In short, our fans don't all know the words and lack the ability to sing in time. So it sounds shite - not much point showing it.

A great anthem ruined by the way it gets sung at The Amex.

Yes, though that in itself is part of our history.
In the introduction to his Dictionary of Sussex Dialect (1875) the Rev Parish describes the inhabitants of Sussex as uniquely tuneless.

 

[Wozza]

Yet for the Dippers v Spuds game today, not a sound of any sort when You'll Never Walk Alone is played

It means more.

(It says here)

 

[AmexRuislip]

@AmexRuislip . On the day when you’d have thought the entire fanbase might be happy, instead a thread like flypaper drawing in bitter folk jealous of Liverpool.

I aim to please, even Mrs AR was a tad pissed

 

[Is it PotG?]

I love SbtS.

If only we could sing it without the awful clapping.

 

[AmexRuislip]

It means more.

(It says here)

Just annoying really IMO

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Is it f

Is it f*ck.

One is a mawdling random 60s relic used by other clubs, whilst the other is a stirring, evocative WW1 marching song which is uniquely linked to the folk of Sussex who proudly watch their football club.

Not many clubs have an age-old anthem that relates directly to their team. You could cherish it, not slag it off.

I think the maudlin 60s relic was actually written just after the Second World War for Carousel the musical.

 

[The Oldman]

I think a significant part of the world will know it as a Howard Keel song from the Musical Oklahoma! It may well be up there with 'Don't cry for me Argentina', 'Maria', 'The Timewarp' and 'You're the One that I want' amongst the world's most famous and popular musical showtunes, but because a scouse pop group were amongst hundreds who covered it, I really can't see the relevance.

And if it's a decibel competition, I'd put forward Radio ga-ga at Live Aid (another song I can't stand).

Personally I like something local, relevant, reflective and poignant when the Albion come out, but maybe that's just me

Sorry to correct but Howard Keel has nothing to do with when you walk….
The musical it is from was Carousel first on the stage then on a film and on all occasions is sung by a female soprano with a chorus.
Howard Keel played in the stage version of Oklahoma but not in the film and as you walk etc is definitely not in Oklahoma

 

[Is it PotG?]

Howard Keel played in the stage version of Oklahoma but in the film it was a Gordon Macrae.

I loved his version of 'Rock Your Baby'

 

[The Oldman]

I loved his version of 'Rock Your Baby'

That was George Macrae

 

[Easy 10]

I think the maudlin 60s relic was actually written just after the Second World War for Carousel the musical.

Maybe so. But nobody bothered with it till Marsden started warbling it in the 60s.