Have always wanted this at full blast after the players have come out and just as the chorus kicks in the music stops, the whole ground(well Covered end) sing and then the game kicks off .
Took me ages to realise that 'sign' was a typo. Was loving the idea of the covered end getting to the end of the song and then giving some sign that replaced the referees whistle to signal the start of the game!
[cite]Posted By: PassItToLeaburn[/cite]Took me ages to realise that 'sign' was a typo. Was loving the idea of the covered end getting to the end of the song and then giving some sign that replaced the referees whistle to signal the start of the game!
LOL, Good spot mate,
We could have worked out a great sign routine
Have always wanted this at full blast after the players have come out and just as the chorus kicks in the music stops, the whole ground(well Covered end) sing and then the game kicks off .
Crazy idea. We only started singing this in the first place to take the piss out of Forest in 1986. They ran out to this song and we took it up as a piss-take. Hardly a good basis for a new Charlton club-song. We already owe our club colours to Forest (don't we?), why copy their song aswell (ooops, we already have done with VFR).
Can't anyone get some original song ideas. And what's wrong with the Red Red Robin?
[cite]Posted By: jimmymelrose[/cite]Yes, but we owe our colours to Arsenal, don't we? Therefore I made the indirect link.
Says who? Never been any mention in any of the many histories that I've read that we wear red because Arsenal did. It is possible but that is not proof or even a suggestion that it is likely.
It is like saying we are called Athletic after Millwall. Yet if we took our suffix from Millwall why not play in blue.
The Wanderers were the first winners of the FA cup and were so called as they had no home ground. Guess the same with Rovers Eg Clapham Rovers. Other teams adopted Wanderers and Rovers eg Bolton and Blackburn as northern club were formed as Association Football, as opposed to local football which has existed for many years, spread in the industrial north and midland (eg Wolves)
Athletic? I guess it suggested strength and fitness
[cite]Posted By: Rothko[/cite]United came from the merger of clubs didn't it?
Albion, is a weird one for example, or is to show how British the club was?
Manchester United wasn't a merger, was it? Although Leeds United were the successors to Leeds City, and West Ham United the successors to Thames Ironworks.... hmmmm.
I wonder if "Albion" is an equivalent of the Spanish "real" (royal).
Albion also means white but most likely to be about being British as the Victorians were into the pre-Roman history and names hence Hibernian and Celtic in Scotland and the big statue of Boudica on Waterloo Bridge.
Orient is from the Pennisula and Oriental Shipping Line.
Incidentally, according to Richard Redden's book of cartoons, Charlton weren't even the biggest team in Charlton before World War I, that was Charlton Reds, who played at Fossdene Field (which I think is the kink in Victoria Way where the flats have been demolished).
When I was a lad living in the Orpington area, Cray Wanderers was seen as the non league rival to Bromley in the area. Some irony that they now play at Hayes Lane.
[cite]Posted By: jimmymelrose[/cite]Yes, but we owe our colours to Arsenal, don't we? Therefore I made the indirect link.
Says who? Never been any mention in any of the many histories that I've read that we wear red because Arsenal did. It is possible but that is not proof or even a suggestion that it is likely.
It is like saying we are called Athletic after Millwall. Yet if we took our suffix from Millwall why not play in blue.
I thought I'd read this somewhere. Something along the lines of them moving to North London and us adopting their colours. We'd previously played in other colours, one of which was Seahawk Blue. It went very well with their jeans apparently.
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yipee i a, yippie i o
when charlton score, we'll sing it more
yipee i a, yippie i o
Covered Enders in the sky"
Have always wanted this at full blast after the players have come out and just as the chorus kicks in the music stops, the whole ground(well Covered end) sing and then the game kicks off .
LOL, Good spot mate,
We could have worked out a great sign routine
i,m sticking with Mr Cash
Crazy idea. We only started singing this in the first place to take the piss out of Forest in 1986. They ran out to this song and we took it up as a piss-take. Hardly a good basis for a new Charlton club-song. We already owe our club colours to Forest (don't we?), why copy their song aswell (ooops, we already have done with VFR).
Can't anyone get some original song ideas. And what's wrong with the Red Red Robin?
Says who? Never been any mention in any of the many histories that I've read that we wear red because Arsenal did. It is possible but that is not proof or even a suggestion that it is likely.
It is like saying we are called Athletic after Millwall. Yet if we took our suffix from Millwall why not play in blue.
Athletic? I guess it suggested strength and fitness
Albion, is a weird one for example, or is to show how British the club was?
Manchester United wasn't a merger, was it? Although Leeds United were the successors to Leeds City, and West Ham United the successors to Thames Ironworks.... hmmmm.
I wonder if "Albion" is an equivalent of the Spanish "real" (royal).
Orient is from the Pennisula and Oriental Shipping Line.
I'm struglling with City, Town and County : - )
Anyone know who the second oldest football club in the world are?
Correct.
Bromley = the home of football in south London.
Cray is in Bromley and they now play at Hayes Lane.
Charlton Reds. Wonder what colour their shirts were?
I thought I'd read this somewhere. Something along the lines of them moving to North London and us adopting their colours. We'd previously played in other colours, one of which was Seahawk Blue. It went very well with their jeans apparently.
yes, that might sound good if you are 8 years old.
Get a grip, that sounds worse than 'we all agree Paul Walsh is magic'.