Cant be Arris'd to write a full explantation so here is the abridged version. In the early 1930s, Hull had a full back and goal kicker called Joe Oliver. Oliver was so dependable with the boot that the crowd at one match spontaneously started singing the Gene Autry song, Old Faithful at him. Hull supporters adopted the song as their battle cry from then on.

You light up my senses,
Like a gallon of Greenalls,
Like a kebab from Genos,
Like a good sniff of glue.
Like a night out at Martine's,
Like a split fish and curry,
Oh St Helens rugby,
Come thrill me again,
Na Na Na Na Na Na Oooh

I have always wondered what the words to that are

I think Sheffield Wednesday / United have a good version of that. Swapping Greenalls for tetleys ( a wise move lyrically and taste wise)

The ' flute ' song has been the favourite for many years at Leigh , although totally un ' PC ' and fortunatley unless we are actually playing the pies and the glory fans are there then it is thankfully becoming less prevalent

The current favourite is , " Salmon Army " , which is a reference to a certain group of fans who if we are playing more than 30 minutes away from Leigh usually make a weekend of it , at the Toulouse match last season they had a speciel edition shirt made in salmon pink and blue , and thus was born the ' Salmon Army ' , the normal response to this chant is , " It's pink , and you know it is , It's pink and you know it is " from the rest of the Leigh fans , in fact at the match on sunday against Whitehaven the afformentioned group unvieled their own Flag , which as was noted is in fact blue and ....... Pink

Slightly off-topic but Cas dressing room song in my hand
Im a big mean [something] of a Castleford man
[something], [something], [something]
nibble, gobble, chew
I'm a Castleford man who the [something] are you?

Classy or what?

HKR's
Oh when the Red Red Robin goes bob bob bobbin along, along
there'll be no more sobbing when he starts singing his song, sweet song etc etc

Old faithful is some old gay cowboy song, not sure how it eneded up FC's theme tune.

As an Australian I understand how the concept of displaying passion and cheering your team on is alien to you. I've heard more noise at a wake than at an NRL game.

wtf is a 'split fish and curry'???


Is that some quaint Liverpudlian delicacy?


Is it as tasty as it sounds?

souths "glory glory to south sydney"
cronulla "up up cronulla"
tigers "eye of the tiger"
saints "saints go marching in"

glory glory is the best, especially if you listen to both verses

Thanks billy...........I'm quite pleased, there were only 2 lines I got wrong, or rather, I've never been able to make them out.

to the tune of never walk alone

"you'll never get a job sign on, sign on"



and i remember a rather racist song we sung at bradford but not risking posting it

your just our grand final b!thches

Salford -

So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the Captain ashore
Let me go home, let me go home
I wanna go home, I wanna go home
This is the Worst/Best trip ive ever been on.