I was sat directly above the wire fans, in the 2nd tier, and literally the only two songs I heard were 'sh*t helens' and what I keep reading was supposed to be 'allez allez allez ohh' but was definitely 'alley alley alley oh'. You were pretty loud though, congrats.

That has more to do with the position of you and the direction of acoustics rather than loudness of voice.
Like standing behind a mega phone as opposed to standing in front.

Well, he was sitting above you and I was sitting on halfway and we both didn't hear much apart from the banal and excuciating "Allez, Allez, Allez".

Would anyone care to explain to me why you were singing that anyway. Do you have French players that I don't know about? Is Warrington twinned with Toulouse? Do any of you even know what it means?

You tell us correctly why you're called pieaters and I'll tell you.

Love the fact this has wound you up so much, I think you either need to lighten up or just stop going to the games!

As you well know, during the heroic but ultimately doomed National Strike of 1926, the starving Miners from Wigan were forced to go back to work earlier than surrounding towns - thus having to eat 'humble pie' - and not because the World Pie Eating Championships are held in Wigan. By the way I recommend the Museum of Labour History in Manchester (free to enter and a decent cafe) if you didn't.

Your turn...

Because the Wire fans have a good relationship with the Catalan fans. The last few years both sets of fans have stood together singing with and supporting each other.

If you look at the first link Rugbychick posted you'll notice a large Catalan flag in with the Wire fans after the game (you may have noticed it during the game, too)

Also, I was sat above the Bradford fans, in the upper tier, for the first two games, and I could hear everything the Wire fans were singing (including the Catalan songs) even when there was only a (comparatively) small contingent.

Allez does not have a direct English translation but in its context means. Get going. Allez is one of the first French words a child would learn, after greetings and courtesy, for directions.

Merci beaucoup. Fais mes amitiés à Rubber Ducky.

Et au revoir - La prochaine fois je vais te chanter une chanson!

Enchanté

A good politician you'd make...managing to skirt around the use of LEIGH.

Haha. Good point.

Personally I've nothing against Leigh - and they have one of the very few decent MPs around today.

I thought we sang it because it was catchy... Why to the Wigan super ultra brigantes sing:

Wooooooooooooah oh! Woooooooooah oh! Wooooooooooah oh! Woooooooooooooah oh! Nananananananananananana! Nananananananananananana! Nananananananananananana! Nananananananananananana!

And repeat.


What meaning does that have? Why does it matter? It's just fans enjoying themselves. Bore off.

As for the origins of songs, who knows? Warrington and Catalan fans have a very close relationship, you as a Wigan fan should understand why we have the relationship we do as it stems from the semi final at the HJ Wigan v Catalan AND/OR from the fact we take so many over to Catalan. I think they released away fans ticket numbers sales through the years and we have always been the highest despite not having the biggest fan base. Catalan have a good relationship both on and off the field with us.
We have similar relationships with Hudds fans...it shows we are not the monsters that certain clubs make us out to be