The Demotion of the song Grand Old Team

[Marius57]

Mate it winds up the opposition fans so I say enhance the woos

They proper hate it. I’ve had messages from fans of a few other clubs about it

 

[Thomasc]

Grand old team when it fades out after the red shyte bit sounds pathetic

 

[wainy]

I’d like us to be good enough to not have to sing songs from before me dad was born to be honest.

 

[NathDogg]

Grand Old Team (the song, not this gaff!) reeks of Kenwright and needs lashing.

 

[davek]

Grand Old Team (the song, not this gaff!) reeks of Kenwright and needs lashing.

It's tradition. Respect our culture. That's all we ask.

 

[NathDogg]

It's tradition. Respect our culture. That's all we ask.

Spirit of the blues is our tradition too, just slightly more modern, and every other clubs fans hates it cos it’s an absolute banger, and they all know it, especially the RS.

Woooooooooooooooooo!

 

[davek]

Spirit of the blues is our tradition too, just slightly more modern, and every other clubs fans hates it cos it’s an absolute banger, and they all know it, especially the RS.

Woooooooooooooooooo!

Well, my initial criticism in the thread was not that SotBs should be scrapped, but that it's use had demoted GOT.

Have your woos if you like. But don't let it oust GOT from it's rightful place.

 

[toffeeblue9]

Well, my initial criticism in the thread was not that SotBs should be scrapped, but that it's use had demoted GOT.

Have your woos if you like. But don't let it oust GOT from it's rightful place.

Personally, I've always felt that GOT is a bit cringe. The fact that it has a line about not caring what the RS say has always been vaguely embarrassing to me

Also, from a practical point of view, it's a song/chant which peters out a lot. It's sung alongside the it being played over the tannoy, but the fact the fans sing it at twice the speed of the actual music makes it sound weird.

 

[gonetomorrow]

GOT is the Celtic song, sung by the Lions as they headed out onto the pitch at Lisbon in 1967.

 

[davek]

Personally, I've always felt that GOT is a bit cringe. The fact that it has a line about not caring what the RS say has always been vaguely embarrassing to me

Also, from a practical point of view, it's a song/chant which peters out a lot. It's sung alongside the it being played over the tannoy, but the fact the fans sing it at twice the speed of the actual music makes it sound weird.

That's a common themes in many anthems of clubs. It's also a common theme in national anthems: GSTQ; Flower of Scotland; the Soldiers Song...they all mention the enemy.

 

[davek]

GOT is the Celtic song, sung by the Lions as they headed out onto the pitch at Lisbon in 1967.

IIRC Everton's use predates that and was a song picked up from Liverpool school teams back in the 40s and 50s. St Anthony's, for example, had their own version of it, and I think Everton supporters also used it during that earlier period, probably influenced by childhood songs they'd sung.

It's basically Everton's song that Celtic and Spurs have their own variations of. That's my understanding of it.

 

[gedefc]

It's tradition. Respect our culture. That's all we ask.

Was it you that was moaning about the Archibald Leitch design on bramley moore?

 

[Big Neville Southall]

Personally, I've always felt that GOT is a bit cringe. The fact that it has a line about not caring what the RS say has always been vaguely embarrassing to me

Also, from a practical point of view, it's a song/chant which peters out a lot. It's sung alongside the it being played over the tannoy, but the fact the fans sing it at twice the speed of the actual music makes it sound weird.

Everton used to sing it about whoever the opposition was. Eg, we don't care what Brentford say. Then following week we don't care what Luton say.its easier though just to have the same team name in there

 

[PSB1]

St Anthony's, for example, had their own version of it,

Is right.

But cannot for the life of me remeember it being sung in the 60's(or 70's come to that) ... although there isn't much I do remember of the 60's.

 

[davek]

Is right.

But cannot for the life of me remeember it being sung in the 60's(or 70's come to that) ... although there isn't much I do remember of the 60's.

I think those decades were taken up by there adoption of - and adaptation of - songs in the charts. Anything considered old fashioned being sidelined.