We All Follow the Chelsea...

[Profondo Rosso]

Dunno if any of you have heard this song, but loads of teams sing it, it's to the tune of "Land of Hope and Glory" and generally goes...

We All Follow The Chelsea,
Over land and sea, and Leicester
We All Follow The Chelsea,
Onto victory...

It isn't just Chelsea who sing it, it's quite a few teams judging by it, i guess we're seen as a shit city :icon_lol:

There's another version which goes:

We hate Newcastle United,
We hate Liverpool, and Leicester
We hate Man United,
But Sunderland we love you!!!!
Alltogether now

Again, sung with several different teams, and we always seem to be the same link for some reason.

Just thought it was funny we class as the stereotypical shit club :icon_lol:

 

[SJN-Fox]

I think the Chelsea thing is something to do with signs on the M1 ... The North and Leicester, so 'and Leicester' gets added to some of their songs.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

I think the Chelsea thing is something to do with signs on the M1 ... The North and Leicester, so 'and Leicester' gets added to some of their songs.

Well, that would make sense actually thinking about it, all the clubs who had it on FansChant were London clubs: Chelsea, Arsenal, West Ham, Palace and Charlton

 

[LCFCmonkey]

I believe on Soccer AM a few years back when Lovejoy (Chelsea fan) was presenting, we were known as "And Leicester" on there too.

And I don't think that we have always been a "Stereotypically shit" club. I've always thought that we were a bogey team for a lot of clubs. Not neccessarily the greatest, but always able to pull off a good win against a big side.

 

[Profondo Rosso]

I believe on Soccer AM a few years back when Lovejoy (Chelsea fan) was presenting, we were known as "And Leicester" on there too.

And I don't think that we have always been a "Stereotypically shit" club. I've always thought that we were a bogey team for a lot of clubs. Not neccessarily the greatest, but always able to pull off a good win against a big side.

Oh yeah, i remember when they did that on Soccer AM didnt realise that's why they did it though

 

[Fox From The Hudd]

I believe on Soccer AM a few years back when Lovejoy (Chelsea fan) was presenting, we were known as "And Leicester" on there too.

And I don't think that we have always been a "Stereotypically shit" club. I've always thought that we were a bogey team for a lot of clubs. Not neccessarily the greatest, but always able to pull off a good win against a big side.

When I first remember this song in the 70s we were arguably as big or as good as Chelsea who were in and out of the top divison and didn't have a pot to p*iss in - how things change!

 

[Profondo Rosso]

Fair enough, i guess i just liked the idea that we were being sung at for being mediocre :icon_lol:

 

[Profondo Rosso]

http://www.onlinegooner.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=161778&sid=dc73003bcd34654305932e5e11a62eac

^ I found that on a Gooners site, someone said it was a reference to the M1 sign as SJN says, though someone also says it's down to a mammoth FA Cup tie in the 70s vs Sheffield Wednesday in which the 4th and 5th replays were played at Filbert Street. I imagine the former is true as other London teams also sing it.

 

[cleefox]

http://www.onlinegooner.com/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?p=161778&sid=dc73003bcd34654305932e5e11a62eac

^ I found that on a Gooners site, someone said it was a reference to the M1 sign as SJN says, though someone also says it's down to a mammoth FA Cup tie in the 70s vs Sheffield Wednesday in which the 4th and 5th replays were played at Filbert Street. I imagine the former is true as other London teams also sing it.

I'm sure there were 3 replays at Filbert Street for this tie. I seem to remember coming three times, twice within three days. Anyone else remember this?

 

[Darth Vodka]

Lovejoy is a twat

 

[bocadillo]

I'm sure there were 3 replays at Filbert Street for this tie. I seem to remember coming three times, twice within three days. Anyone else remember this?

It was the 2nd, 3rd and 4th replay of a 3rd round tie - 1979. The games were played Monday, Wednesday, Monday.

Only four years earlier we had a replay and second replay against Arsenal both at Filbert Street and within less than a week.

 

[Blaby blue blood]

Lovejoy is a twat

Agreed

Made even more so by the fact he was a Watford fan, then switched to Chelsea, hmmmm wonder why that is Tim?

 

[SJN-Fox]

I seem to remember coming three times, twice within three days. Anyone else remember this?

I'm sure Mrs Clee will have fond memories :icon_lol:

 

[cleefox]

I'm sure Mrs Clee will have fond memories :icon_lol:

She should be so lucky. :icon_lol:

 

[cleefox]

It was the 2nd, 3rd and 4th replay of a 3rd round tie - 1979. The games were played Monday, Wednesday, Monday.

Only four years earlier we had a replay and second replay against Arsenal both at Filbert Street and within less than a week.

Surely they were the 3rd, 4th and 5th replays?

Original tie at Hillsborough, replay at Highbury and three replays at Filbo.

 

[bocadillo]

Surely they were the 3rd, 4th and 5th replays?

Original tie at Hillsborough, replay at Highbury and three replays at Filbo.

eeerrr... so where are you saying the 2nd replay was played? The matches at Filbert Street were 2nd, 3rd and 4th replays.

 

[cleefox]

eeerrr... so where are you saying the 2nd replay was played? The matches at Filbert Street were 2nd, 3rd and 4th replays.

Idiot. The first replay was at Highbury. I'm thinking of the number of games not replays. Doh! :icon_lol:

 

[Orifice]

I remember in the 1970's (ish) that seemingly every football fan was singing...

'We hate Nottingham Forest
We hate Liverpool too
We hate Manchester City
But < insert your team here > we love you'.

The 'And Leicester' bit was added to the end of the second line (if I remember correctly) in the early/mid 1980's. I was always impressed that Leicester City was big enough to be included in a song sung by so many!

Of course, I could be reciting total crap here, but in MY mind I'm right.

 

[David Gwilliam]

I believe on Soccer AM a few years back when Lovejoy (Chelsea fan) was presenting, we were known as "And Leicester" on there too.

And I don't think that we have always been a "Stereotypically shit" club. I've always thought that we were a bogey team for a lot of clubs. Not neccessarily the greatest, but always able to pull off a good win against a big side.

This is true. I was on an architectural tour of Liverpool and when the local guide found out I was a Leicester fan he said "We always found you so difficult. Especially in the days of Shilton. Sometimes he seemed unbeatable." Coming from the supporter of a team that was once the best in Europe and that has had some great goalkeepers itself I thought that was real praise.

 

[bocadillo]

This is true. I was on an architectural tour of Liverpool and when the local guide found out I was a Leicester fan he said "We always found you so difficult. Especially in the days of Shilton. Sometimes he seemed unbeatable." Coming from the supporter of a team that was once the best in Europe and that has had some great goalkeepers itself I thought that was real praise.

Liverpool fans do quote this 'unbeatability' of Peter Shilton but I think I am correct in saying that we only beat them once up at Anfield when he was in goal - and that was the in the 5th round of the Cup in 1969, not even a league game.

My favourite memory of our goalkeepers and the Liverpool Kop goes back just before then - to the first game of the 1966/67 season and the first game after England had lifted the World Cup when we were the visitors to Anfield. You would have to have been there to believe the welcome that Gordon Banks got; the memory of the applause and the repeated chants of "Banks of England" as he approached them still stands my hair on end.

It was Banks too who was involved in our startling run of three consecutive wins at Anfield - not Shilton. Yes in 62/63, 63/64 and 64/65 we beat them each time we went there - and each time they could not get a single goal past Banks.

Nobody will be surprised to hear that record of three consecutive wins by any team at Anfield went unequalled for years and years - over 30 in fact. Some on here will know the next team to do it - the rest will realise who it was when I tell you that the goalkeepers in the three games were Keller, Keller and Arphexad. Yes, in 97, 98 and 99 we again beat them in three consecutive games at Anfield - and nobody else had turned them over three years running in the 35 years since we had done it.