worst chant in Third Rail Songbook from 2015 (a footie thread)

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this is old but I only just found it and it's classic. anyway so for those of you who aren't American and/or don't follow Major League Soccer (understandably), we don't have promotion or relegation here, and teams routinely make it into the top flight (MLS) by being an established lower division team and paying the expansion fee. NYCFC, otoh, skipped that part and just entered the league in 2015 without previously existing.

so back in 2015, they made the news viral for the song sheets they handed out at games, because with no history, they had to come up with chants real fast. today, I found a surprisingly not dead link to their COMPLETE 'song book' from 2015, and shit is gold.

so...vote for the worst chant. I whittled it down to the worst examples. link is here, options below: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/54852d54e4b0195c0da4a7c2/t/5542aabbe4b0d578c586ce6f/1430432443646/Third+Rail+Song+Book.pdf

Poll Results

OptionVotes
"Come on New York Score a goal it’s really very simple/Put the ball into the net & we’ll go really mental." 5
"No one likes us, no one likes us, No one likes us, we don’t care, We are New York" 3
"Ohhh, Brovsky’s freaking magic,he wears a magic ‘stache! and when he saw the CITY, He said I fancy that!" 1
"You might have some history,but we don’t give a crud,your team will always be a joke until they have a cup (Shout 1
"Everywhere we go, Were the New York boys(girls), making all the noise" 1
"Oh when New York goes marching in,oh I want, to be in that number,Oh when New York goes marching in" 0
He’s David Villa, he drinks sangria, Came from España to bring us joy. He’s 5 foot 7 of football heaven, Please don’t t 0
"Villa Villa Villa, can't you see? sometimes your goals just hypnotize me!" (David Villa deserved better) 0
"I, wanna Diskerud all night, and party everyday!" (for short-lived shit player Mix Diskerud) 0
"Poku, Poku, what ya gonna do what you gonna do when he comes for you?" 0
"Come on, Khiry, oh, please score one for me, at this moment, you mean everything." 0
"Oh Jeb Brovsky number 5, screw your Kaka, Screw your Gerrard, he will eat those guys alive" 0
"Here’s to you NYCFC, New York loves you more than you will know, Whooaa oohh ohhhhh" 0
"The Power Of Kreis Compels You!!" (Kreis was their first coach's last name) 0
"NYC ain’t nothin’ to fuck with!" 0
"Na, na na, nanananaaaaa,na, na na, naaaaaaaa,New York!" 0
Other from list 0


a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 04:00 (one year ago)

Ooops! I voted for the best chant: "no one likes us..."

more difficult than I look (Aimless), Friday, 10 November 2023 04:13 (one year ago)

Hahahahaha I can't choose

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 10 November 2023 04:32 (one year ago)

villa is only five seven??

ava (paolo), Friday, 10 November 2023 08:38 (one year ago)

i think it's quite sweet that someone took the time to come up with all these

ava (paolo), Friday, 10 November 2023 08:38 (one year ago)

(xp) Yes. You don't need to be 7 foot tall or built like a tank to play football.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 10 November 2023 09:13 (one year ago)

Ooops! I voted for the best chant: "no one likes us..."

that one has has to be disqualified as it has belonged to Millwall for since at least the 70's

I'd bet there are much even worse MLS football chants than these beauties!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 09:50 (one year ago)

tbf lyrics to songs often look crap written down but they sound good when sung.

The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:14 (one year ago)

shocking disrespect for I Love Football

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:18 (one year ago)

i'm enjoying doing the Mrs Robinson one in my head

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:19 (one year ago)

i'm thinking "Put the ball into the net & we’ll go really mental" is the biggest toe-curler here

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:20 (one year ago)

"NYC ain’t nothin’ to fuck with!" is a good one tbf. Simple and effective.

Saxophone Of Futility (Michael B), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:21 (one year ago)

yeah there should be more Wu Tang chants

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:29 (one year ago)

liking the Biggie chant for similar reasons

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 10:29 (one year ago)

these are just like the football chants Adam & Joe made up to make fun of themselves for knowing nothing about football.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1AZ66Cvg1g

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2023 11:16 (one year ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XOhDLUXuVs

this one is a classic

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 11:57 (one year ago)

"Come on New York Score a goal it’s really very simple/Put the ball into the net & we’ll go really mental."

^^^ which Cranberries song is this

the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 10 November 2023 12:06 (one year ago)

Lol

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:01 (one year ago)

English football chants all be like

Your team is shit and your town has high unemployment
Your striker killed someone while drink-driving
Your mascot's a paedo and one of your fans got stabbed to death once
Na na na na na
Oi oi oi

not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:29 (one year ago)

Forest still get scab scab scab, who let the miners down, you scab bastards!

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:50 (one year ago)

probably from tory voting fans, lol

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:52 (one year ago)

Show me the lie tho

Sleaford Scabs

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 13:54 (one year ago)

I think because there is no relegation in the MLS and the US is so huge, it's harder for the festering regional hatred to blossom like it has in the UK for decades.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:05 (one year ago)

I would not have guessed the last one was “You Are My Sunshine” until I clicked on the link. Also I can’t get over it being called David Villa Drinks Sangria

the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:13 (one year ago)

the I Wanna Diskerud All Night one was hilarious to me because it was so awkwardly assembled. that and because he turned out to be such a shit player.

David Villa at least was deserving of the multiple songs, he was their best player for 4 years.

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:50 (one year ago)

English football chants all be like

Your team is shit and your town has high unemployment
Your striker killed someone while drink-driving
Your mascot's a paedo and one of your fans got stabbed to death once
Na na na na na
Oi oi oi

― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Friday, November 10, 2023 8:29 AM bookmarkflaglink

lol

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:50 (one year ago)

yeah there should be more Wu Tang chants

― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, November 10, 2023 5:29 AM bookmarkflaglink

Goals
We're gonna give em to ya
With no trivia
Goals like Ugarte
Straight from Bolivia

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 14:58 (one year ago)

I keep going back to “The power of Kreis compels you!”

the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 10 November 2023 15:02 (one year ago)

esp cos that power wasn't that compelling to the front office, who fired him after one season

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 15:20 (one year ago)

Just need to point out that João Moutinho is the correct five foot seven of football heaven

no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Friday, 10 November 2023 15:31 (one year ago)

otm

Orlando City also had a beautiful João Moutinho but sadly we let him go

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 15:45 (one year ago)

the infamous one they got clowned for I don't think appears in this songbook but was in an earlier sheet they handed out, which was

NYC Clap

N....Y....C.....*clap*

(not that it itself is bad but that they had to write it out)

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:14 (one year ago)

it is bad though

the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:45 (one year ago)

but the clap!

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 16:46 (one year ago)

it's anti-funky

Left, Friday, 10 November 2023 16:56 (one year ago)

I know I'm supposed to be "stupid americans don't get football" but the wu tang one is a way better chant than anything we've come up with

is NYCFC really the Millwall of MLS?

(is Millwall is still the Millwall of wherever they are?)

Left, Friday, 10 November 2023 17:02 (one year ago)

some of the more cruel and venomous UK football chants is probably a thing that wouldn't happen in the US. Like the one of the ones that makes light of the Munich air crash, which I think was in response to Man Utd fans making a cruel one about Joe Mercer's death! And some of the old firm stuff like the Rangers fans' Bobby Sands song or Celtic fans singing "there's only two Andy Gorams" after he had gone public about his schizophrenia are some of the more beyond the pale examples.

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:07 (one year ago)

xpost NYCFC is the Man City of the US in that they're owned by same ownership group.

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:10 (one year ago)

Still can't get over "we don't give a crud" when other printed chants use the word "shit"

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:12 (one year ago)

once when I was a kid I dreamed there was a movie called "A Whole Lotta Crud" featuring a young Fred Savage.

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:20 (one year ago)

I like that they chose “crud” so it would rhyme with “cup”, very strong 00s Kanye energy

the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:22 (one year ago)

imagine what they woulda rhymed with "trophy"

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 17:27 (one year ago)

actually the other thing that bugs me about that chant = at the time they came up with it, 66% of the league had won a copy of some sort (MLS or Open) so either they didn't get to use it much or the players got to shout back "Motherfucker I got one already!"

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 20:47 (one year ago)

copy = cup

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 20:47 (one year ago)

there was actually a 'response' to this chant a few years ago that went something like

"N-Y-CFC
You ain't got no history
You biiiiiiiiiitches
You know you bitchhhes"

....ok yeah that one isn't good either

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 20:52 (one year ago)

"your just a small town near Stamford"

vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Friday, 10 November 2023 21:06 (one year ago)

kinda wanna form a footie squad for my apartment building and encourage others in the complex to create them so we can have chants like

"Building 2050
You are the ones we hate
Read your lease it stipulates
No loud noise after 8"

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 November 2023 21:13 (one year ago)

Austin FC apparently just sings Tom Petty's "Won't Back Down" with no alterations

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Saturday, 11 November 2023 04:02 (one year ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Monday, 13 November 2023 00:01 (one year ago)

This is my favorite Fire song:

Ohh...
Urbs in Horto Magicooo…
You are my one and only Chicagooo…
To dream in red,
To dream in white
For the Fire we all shout into the night!
Our Chicago! We love you so!
Like heroin, Fire, a drug for Chicago!
Just like hashish, or LSD,
For the Fire there’s complete insanity! (Insanity!)
Our Chicago! (Our Chicago!)
We love you so! (We love you so!)
We will always follow anywhere you go! (Where you go!)
Fire here! (Fire here!)
Fire there! (Fire there!)
For the Fire we will travel anywhere! (Anywhere!)

It's ripped off from a Greek club iirc

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Monday, 13 November 2023 00:18 (one year ago)

I don't even know any of my team's other than the ones we share with like every other team.

And

"ORLAAAAANDOOO"
"CIIITYYY"

a very very unfair (Neanderthal), Monday, 13 November 2023 00:52 (one year ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Tuesday, 14 November 2023 00:01 (one year ago)

three months pass...

English football chants all be like

Your team is shit and your town has high unemployment
Your striker killed someone while drink-driving
Your mascot's a paedo and one of your fans got stabbed to death once
Na na na na na
Oi oi oi

― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Friday, November 10, 2023 8:29 AM bookmarkflaglink

this still kills me

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 28 February 2024 20:07 (one year ago)

The latest MLS collection of reactionary spare parts:

https://twitter.com/STLNationalists?s=20

underminer of twenty years of excellent contribution to this borad (dan m), Friday, 1 March 2024 04:47 (one year ago)

jesus fucking christ

CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 1 March 2024 05:19 (one year ago)


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