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| Town and Fartown fans have been singing that since i can remember, late 80's at least !!
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| Quote: GIANT DAZ "Town and Fartown fans have been singing that since i can remember, late 80's at least !!'"
Honestly do not think it goes back that far....Town played Swansea at Wembley in 1994 and only one side was singing it that day (Swansea started it at the semi final of that competition). Happy to be proved wrong but as UB40 were number 1 at the time it makes sense.
Swansea played Port Vale the next game after Wembley and they also picked up on it and still use it as their main song.
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| We were singing it on the old terracing at Fartown in 88 at least
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| Quote: Code13 "We were singing it on the old terracing at Fartown in 88 at least'"
Fair enough
I stand corrected
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| Quote: espanyolswan "Honestly do not think it goes back that far....Town played Swansea at Wembley in 1994 and only one side was singing it that day (Swansea started it at the semi final of that competition). Happy to be proved wrong but as UB40 were number 1 at the time it makes sense.
Swansea played Port Vale the next game after Wembley and they also picked up on it and still use it as their main song.'"
Nah, way before that, maybe they got it off Town then ![Smile icon_smile.gif](images/smilies//icon_smile.gif)
i remember hearing it at Leeds road and Fartown before i'd left school (1990)
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| Quote: GIANT DAZ "Nah, way before that, maybe they got it off Town then
Quite possibly, remember we played Town a few times in the early 90s after Dudley Lewis had switched between the 2 clubs so maybe that is the root of it rather than UB40.
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| Like I said, we were singing it at Fartown in the late 80s
Also - just so long as the club throw that rubbish ub40 version out
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| Quote: Code13 "Like I said, we were singing it at Fartown in the late 80s
Also - just so long as the club throw that rubbish ub40 version out'"
Sounds like it was well before that so no reason for that to be the one they use.
Live and learn as they say.
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| Yeah, personally I think it's a good idea to emulate two of the most successful clubs in Superleague
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| does anyone not get bored of this same old problem which is only ever gonna change if we could get bigger crowds or move to a smaller stadium ?
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| How about for the games against the teams with less away support, which everyone seems to acknowledge dampens the atmosphere, we have there fans in the the Kilner Bank stand like we used to have, albeit in the end blocks as there was always a better atmosphere when fans were in the same stand anyway ??
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| Quote: GIANT DAZ "How about for the games against the teams with less away support, which everyone seems to acknowledge dampens the atmosphere, we have there fans in the the Kilner Bank stand like we used to have, albeit in the end blocks as there was always a better atmosphere when fans were in the same stand anyway ??'"
not sure if it will be allowed
but was def better atmosphere when the fans used to mix, used to get pretty heated too as they wanted to sit in the middle amongst us home fans!
but also with them being side on they would influence the ref decisions abit more too so prob not a good idea all said
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| thats why i said for clubs with little away support....stick them in an end block, we can still have some banter with them while not close enough to boil over. IMO that would help our fans make a bit more noise too. it probably wont happen but just a suggestion cos the atmosphere was loads better then.
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| Quote: GIANT DAZ "thats why i said for clubs with little away support....stick them in an end block, we can still have some banter with them while not close enough to boil over. IMO that would help our fans make a bit more noise too. it probably wont happen but just a suggestion cos the atmosphere was loads better then.'"
i agree it was better then too...
sometimes it was our own fans fighting amongst themselves ![WHISTLE eusa_whistle.gif](images/smilies//eusa_whistle.gif)
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| the only trouble was with Hull and Leeds fans, it was originally those 2 sets of fans who were given the South Stand.
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