The Club has won 13 League titles, a record 13 FA Cups, 2 League Cups, 15 FA Community Shields, 1 League Centenary Trophy, 1 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup and 1 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup.Īrsenal was the first club from the South of England to join The Football League, in 1893, and they reached the First Division in 1904. In the 32 years since The Clash sang "the in crowd say it's cool to dig this chanting thing," chanting at English football grounds has persisted but maybe not flourished.Arsenal Football Club is a professional football club based in Islington, London, England, that plays in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Not to be a spoilsport, but maybe the abatement of chanting is for the best. On another site, this piece might have turned into more of a social commentary.Įurope's history vis-a-vis chanting and groupthink isn't exactly sterling to begin with.Īnd while we would all love to pretend that football fans have evolved, too many recent stories indicate that even supposedly urbane City fans (ahem) can trend to the tasteless and awful if given the chance. Many of the chants I dug up in my research carry racist, homophobic or just plain old hateful overtones. A ton of them are profane, including all 37 versions of "My Old Man."Īt Bleacher Report, though, we don't traffic in that sort of information. Kids read the product on this site, you know. So here are 20 chants that every City fan ought to know-sanitized for your protection.įor the purposes of this piece, chants and songs are created equal. "We are not, we're not really here/ We are not, we're not really here/ Just like a fan/Of the invisible man/ We are not, we're not really here." Whether they recite it or sing it matters not here. The club's website does a nice job of taking the bite out of it, indicating that the slogan " pays homage to the fans that continued to follow City when they were in the old third division. It was and still remains a terrace chant today at the City of Manchester Stadium."
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