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Football songs / chants

By Steve 197010/1 21:29Sat Jan 10 21:29:05 2026

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Not sure how they start , etc - well I do know how they start someone starts one .

Just thinking whoever starts them ( not me, so I realise im putting it on others)

But when we have just gone 2-1 down that’s the time to get behind our team - if we’d have done that today - we may not have got an equaliser, but it would have been more enjoyable.

I’m thinking GW away at Southend when we were smaller ( we are still small)

Just saying- a decent performance today and a bit of singing from 60 minutes onwards and when the players come up at the end helps the team , the club and everyone.

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By borostag (Todge)13/1 10:03Tue Jan 13 10:03:11 2026In response to Football songs / chants Top of thread

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I fully agree with this. I'll always remember the Derby away game a couple of seasons back where we were quite loud but got completely drowned out by the Derby fans as they were chasing a winner. You could tell it had a huge impact on their players, and I'd argue our immediate near-silence after conceding the 2nd this weekend may have had an impact on ours as well. If we audibly give up as fans, you'll feel it on the pitch for sure.

On a slight tangent, a worrying trend for me at recent away days has been that certain sections of our fans (that I don't see around our bit of the ET) increasingly sing some pretty offensive anti-traveller, misogynistic, or poverty-based chants. I never remember this being a huge issue, and it's made the people I go with (some of whom I have to convince to come to lower league football games) quite uncomfortable and some are unlikely to come again. Adding to this, the random chants of "paedo", especially when directed at the opposition's mascot who is clearly trying to wind us up is just a bit... pathetic. When the teams came out, their mascot immediately came running over to us, and instead of cheering for our team we started bashing him, which I'm certain is entirely the point of them doing it, to distract us. Worked like a charm.

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By BedsBoro (peanut)13/1 10:09Tue Jan 13 10:09:45 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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That sort of chanting has been going on forever, rightly or wrongly - more concerning for me is the lack of any decent player-specific songs and noise!

The ET used to be incredible for it - during the GW era every player had a song, even the crap ones, and it felt a lot more united...and louder. I do think our atmosphere used to make BHW a more difficult place to go, but I suppose times - and the fans - have changed slightly. Or maybe I'm just getting old

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By Telboy13/1 11:00Tue Jan 13 11:00:07 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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From what I see on the ET and, I guess, throughout BHW, is the crowd feeding on what is happening on the pitch. When the players dig in, make crunching tackles and attack with force it generates such a response from the crowd.
At Luton, there were some good patches where our supporters got going but nowhere near what we as fans can generate. I can't remember hearing the "red and white army" chant. It's easy for everyone to get involved with that one, no complicated lyrics and it is deafening! So, for the likes of of me and Deltic, who struggle to work out the lyrics of most of the chants...keep it simple and it will encompass everyone.

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By Deltic 21 (Spirit of East Coast Boro)16/1 18:14Fri Jan 16 18:14:02 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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Yay! 😁

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By Deltic 21 (Spirit of East Coast Boro)12/1 19:07Mon Jan 12 19:07:40 2026In response to Football songs / chants Top of thread

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Talking of chants, somebody please solve a mystery for me. What is the last line of this chant please?

‘…we travel near or far,
You can always hear us calling
From the… blah blah blahhhh’ (etc)

I haven’t known the answer in 21 years and at Luton I asked a chap singing it loudly behind me, and he didn’t know either! Told me he just made up stuff to fit! 🤷‍♀️

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By WASP (Original Mr Wasp)13/1 09:14Tue Jan 13 09:14:27 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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we travel near or far,
You can always hear us calling
From the comfort of our armchairs as we watch it on TV.

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By AndyC12/1 23:44Mon Jan 12 23:44:24 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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It should be

You can never hear us calling
Because we've sung this song too fast

Because, well, they have. Hence it being a jumbled mess. Same with the Dale Cavese. Why its sung twice as fast as we originally sung it is beyond me, doesn't give it chance to get really loud now

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By Balders (BALDOCKBORO)13/1 10:00Tue Jan 13 10:00:24 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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Is it Cocaine?

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By AndyC13/1 11:39Tue Jan 13 11:39:57 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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Could be.

Someone needs to start swapping their bags for ket to slow the fuckers down

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By Sev12/1 19:47Mon Jan 12 19:47:27 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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…we travel near or far,
You can always hear us calling
For the manager to be sacked if we don't win every game.

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By Danny-da-Bass (Danny-da -Bass)13/1 08:11Tue Jan 13 08:11:06 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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From the East Bank after dark

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By Balders (BALDOCKBORO)13/1 09:59Tue Jan 13 09:59:49 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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That's what I thought.

Altho' I used to sing "stand" rather than "bank", even tho' i knew it was wrong, made it more relevant to Boro.

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By Deltic 21 (Spirit of East Coast Boro)12/1 21:11Mon Jan 12 21:11:05 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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You absolute sod… I read that carefully, expecting the real answer, and then got to the last line…! 😬🤣

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By Sev12/1 21:44Mon Jan 12 21:44:30 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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Haha, I don't think I know what the line is.

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By Freemo12/1 22:04Mon Jan 12 22:04:34 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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Which is ironic as like most of our songs you can hear it being sung at 45 other grounds on any given weekend.

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By Paulio - the Tony Thorpe of Mods (Paulio)12/1 19:36Mon Jan 12 19:36:42 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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we travel near or far,
You can always hear us calling
From the local pub bar

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By Deltic 21 (Spirit of East Coast Boro)12/1 21:10Mon Jan 12 21:10:07 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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Is that true? I can never tell with you… 😬🤷‍♀️

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By Paulio - the Tony Thorpe of Mods (Paulio)13/1 01:12Tue Jan 13 01:12:41 2026In response to Re: Football songs / chants Top of thread

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I don’t even know what song it is 🤣

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