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New chants and songs

By Kilworthfox, in Leicester City Forum

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lol 

 

 

This is neither the time nor the place to argue whether or not Riyad Mahrez is Leicester's most dazzling player of all time (although, for the record, he is). But what we can all agree on, surely, is that the already wobbly King Power should shake like Eric Pickles' waterbed to the sound of his name at each home game.

And yet, and yet ... his default chant is the chant equivalent of a half and half scarf, a tune pinched from Man City, which was leftover from the Anthony Knockaert days, and has now been patched up and repaired to be shared with N'Golo Kante.

To be fair, he's got a better one, to Zombie Nation, but it's yet to reach the whole ground.

All that invention on the pitch ... doesn't it deserve a bit to match in the stands too?

 

 

Decent article

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kushiro

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Just came across this from 1970:

 

 

How does a vociferous, well-behaved Kop help a team? According to Leicester City secretary John Smith, a good set of kopites can "raise the level of atmosphere and help provide greater incentive to the players".

 

The kopites at Filbert Street stand underneath the ground's double decker stand and number around 7,500 for a normal league game. "On the whole we rarely get trouble from them, and they are always loyal in their support", says the City secretary. 

 

"They have a tremendous sense of humour and seem to come up with a song for all occasions. We have also noticed the increasing number of girls who stand in the Spion Kop".

 

City's kopites rate themselves among the best in the Second Division. Their own particular theme song is an adaptation of 'This old man', entitled 'This great team, they scored one,' and building up to 'they scored five', composed after a 5-0 win against Charlton last season.

 

Other favourites include 'Leicester are the greatest' to the tune of 'Puff the magic dragon', 'Smile and the whole world smiles with you', 'Strolling', 'Yellow Submarine' and 'In Dublin's Fair City'.

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Just came across this from 1970:

 

 

How does a vociferous, well-behaved Kop help a team? According to Leicester City secretary John Smith, a good set of kopites can "raise the level of atmosphere and help provide greater incentive to the players".

 

The kopites at Filbert Street stand underneath the ground's double decker stand and number around 7,500 for a normal league game. "On the whole we rarely get trouble from them, and they are always loyal in their support", says the City secretary. 

 

"They have a tremendous sense of humour and seem to come up with a song for all occasions. We have also noticed the increasing number of girls who stand in the Spion Kop".

 

City's kopites rate themselves among the best in the Second Division. Their own particular theme song is an adaptation of 'This old man', entitled 'This great team, they scored one,' and building up to 'they scored five', composed after a 5-0 win against Charlton last season.

 

Other favourites include 'Leicester are the greatest' to the tune of 'Puff the magic dragon', 'Smile and the whole world smiles with you', 'Strolling', 'Yellow Submarine' and 'In Dublin's Fair City'.

 

Love it. Where did you find that?

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...that 5-0 win the Kop was celebrating was actually AT Charlton, five games from the end of the season. The following week (when the chant got going?), we played promotion rivals Blackpool - the famous game when a City shot got stuck in the mud on the line and it finished 0-0. Turns out that was the key. We finished the season 3rd (in the days of two-up, two-down), Blackpool finished 2nd, two points ahead with an inferior goal average. (Thanks Smith and Taylor for the detail).

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Just came across this from 1970:

 

 

How does a vociferous, well-behaved Kop help a team? According to Leicester City secretary John Smith, a good set of kopites can "raise the level of atmosphere and help provide greater incentive to the players".

 

The kopites at Filbert Street stand underneath the ground's double decker stand and number around 7,500 for a normal league game. "On the whole we rarely get trouble from them, and they are always loyal in their support", says the City secretary. 

 

"They have a tremendous sense of humour and seem to come up with a song for all occasions. We have also noticed the increasing number of girls who stand in the Spion Kop".

 

City's kopites rate themselves among the best in the Second Division. Their own particular theme song is an adaptation of 'This old man', entitled 'This great team, they scored one,' and building up to 'they scored five', composed after a 5-0 win against Charlton last season.

 

Other favourites include 'Leicester are the greatest' to the tune of 'Puff the magic dragon', 'Smile and the whole world smiles with you', 'Strolling', 'Yellow Submarine' and 'In Dublin's Fair City'.

 

As many stood on the old Kop as sit in the new one  lol

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How does a vociferous, well-behaved Kop help a team? According to Leicester City secretary John Smith, a good set of kopites can "raise the level of atmosphere and help provide greater incentive to the players".

 

 

 

Anyone else think of the contrast with Barrie Pierpoint when they read this?  His famous quote: "it's not the fans that create the atmosphere, it's events on the pitch that they respond to". (At the time, lots of people were being thrown out for persistent standing in the crazy corner, and fans were saying 'if everyone sits down, the atmosphere will be s***').

 

Younger fans with no idea who Pierpoint is, have a look at this amazing article:

 

http://www.theguardian.com/football/1999/sep/24/newsstory.sport4

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SemperEadem

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Don't wake me up

Please don't wake me up

I don't want all of this to end

Leave me here to dream

And watch Ranieri's team

We're on our way to Europe once again

We are going to end up singing 'dont take me home' its inevitble. If we are though this is a good effort with some originality.

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We are going to end up singing 'dont take me home' its inevitble. If we are though this is a good effort with some originality.

dont take me home has already been sung at some aways this season lol personally don't mind it if it's in the pub or concourse pre or post match. Not during the game in the stand though
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Perhaps seeing as Spirts started singing "We're coming for you,we're coming for you, Leicester City, we're coming for you"

After they dropped points yesterday, if/when we take the lead today, how about:

"You're falling behind, You're falling behind, Tottenham Hotspur, You're falling behind"

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Leicester boys are we,

Pride of our city,

In good times and the bad

We always back the lads

And now we're gonna win the league!

I think that's correct! Quality chant that got going in SK1 and loudly too!

 

Was just about to mention about how good this song sounds but wasn't overly sure of the words. It does sound great though - love the tune. In SK1 it was very persistent. 

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