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&quotMally&quot wrote:

&quotYF Dan&quot wrote:We have a lot of divvy fans, who sing too many songs about hating this that and the other. I prefer songs supporting our team, or at least being amusing about the opposition, not just rude and insulting.

This is becoming a trend certainly in the lower leagues . I noticed last night that Bristol City fans at the Riverside spent most of their time chanting such things as &quotAre you Rovers in disguise&quot, &quotPremiership? your having a laugh&quot and hardly anything positive to support their own team.

For our fans what's the point of chanting &quotwe hate Slumdon&quot away at somewhere like Stafford or Stevenage, or even at home for that matter? All it does is highlight the fact that we're not good enough to play them anymore.

I dug out Desmond Morris's &quotSoccer Tribe&quot to look at the analysis of Oxford chants from almost 30 years ago. Interestingly there was no category for chants specifically aimed at local rivals but there was one aimed directly at the opposition. (60 out of 251 different chants for the period studied). The most interesting facts compared to today was the number and variety of chants. On average at each Oxford game there was a massive 145 chants per game made up of an average 67 DIFFERENT chants per match! If you told that to the youth of today ........... [cut to Monty Python sketch with old men wearing flat caps]

&quotYF Dan&quot wrote:... but how about a little competition to see if anyone can come up with something funny and catchy by Saturday ...

&quotSnake&quot wrote:

&quotMally&quot wrote:

&quotYF Dan&quot wrote:We have a lot of divvy fans, who sing too many songs about hating this that and the other. I prefer songs supporting our team, or at least being amusing about the opposition, not just rude and insulting.

This is becoming a trend certainly in the lower leagues . I noticed last night that Bristol City fans at the Riverside spent most of their time chanting such things as &quotAre you Rovers in disguise&quot, &quotPremiership? your having a laugh&quot and hardly anything positive to support their own team.

For our fans what's the point of chanting &quotwe hate Slumdon&quot away at somewhere like Stafford or Stevenage, or even at home for that matter? All it does is highlight the fact that we're not good enough to play them anymore.

I dug out Desmond Morris's &quotSoccer Tribe&quot to look at the analysis of Oxford chants from almost 30 years ago. Interestingly there was no category for chants specifically aimed at local rivals but there was one aimed directly at the opposition. (60 out of 251 different chants for the period studied). The most interesting facts compared to today was the number and variety of chants. On average at each Oxford game there was a massive 145 chants per game made up of an average 67 DIFFERENT chants per match! If you told that to the youth of today ........... [cut to Monty Python sketch with old men wearing flat caps]

So we used to have 67 different chants in one game.

How many can we come up with on here that are in REGULAR use, let alone all sung in the same match?

I’ll start with

1 Come on you Yellows
2 Come on Oxford
3 Yellows, Yellows
4 We hate Slumdon and we hate Slumdon
5 Stand up if you hate Slumdon
6 Na na na na na na na O-U-F-C
7 In the mixer
8 Jim Smith’s Yellow Army
9 Forever and ever, we’ll follow our team
10 My garden shed
11 You’ve never won f*** all
12 Score in a minute
13 The referee’s a w*****
14 You haven’t got a clue
15 Come in a taxi
16 Is that all you take away
17 Give us an “O