Americans React to Funniest Football Chants in England!

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• NI

  @nickbyrne3299 · 2 years ago

  Watching Americans react to our football chants is one of my guiltiest pleasures.<br>FYI, Adam Johnson = bad, Jimmy Saville = much, much worse

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• GR

  @grunions9648 · 2 years ago

  What I love about football chants is that - if you can think of a witty rhyme that works with a well-known tune, you can start a chant right then yourself out of nowhere and people will latch onto it.

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• JO

  @jonathanmeare1123 · 2 years ago

  You need to remember, if a player from another club has been in the news for &apos;whatever&apos; reason, then they become a target (much like your mates do when they get a nickname based upon some drunken error) It&apos;s always tongue in cheek.

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• ST

  @stinkinhippy1724 · 1 year ago

  &quot;Do they rehearse it beforehand?&quot; <br><br>As an English football fan I can attest that any kid who likes football learns to join in a chant by the age of 8. Just takes one guy to come up with a good / funny chant and he&apos;ll shout it out, 5 or 6 people around him will pick it up and shout it too. Then 20 - 40 people will pick it up and it escalates like that, before long thousands will be chanting.

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• AS

  @ashleybland4696 · 2 years ago

  Best start to a chant reaction video ever- &quot;it makes you feel like a part of the community&quot; immediately followed by &quot;so fuck off Adam Johnson&quot; 😂

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• WA

  @Wabbit_Hunta · 2 years ago

  The Sky TV chant/song is sung because the fans know that they&apos;re broadcasting live, and they know that whatever they sing will be heard live on TV across the country. The louder they are &nbsp;then the better it will be, from their point of view. They can try to reduce the sound from mic&apos;s around the ground, but when it&apos;s picked up on mic&apos;s used by presenters and guests on postmatch interviews then they know there&apos;s zero possibility of it being muted. All they can do is apologise for it being &quot;beyond their control&quot;

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• DS

  @DS-uy6jw · 2 years ago

  It&apos;s <b>nearly</b> all in good fun. That goalie, despite having loads of chants about him, clapped the opposing side and they clapped him at the end. It&apos;s like a test. You have to take the insults and if you do with a smile on your face, you passed and get a clap back.

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• MI

  @Millennial_Manc · 2 years ago (edited)

  The TV ones are funny because you can hear the chanting on TV. &nbsp;Sky TV charge pubs a fortune to play the matches on the screen in there. &nbsp;It’s a big thing to go to the pub or a ‘sports bar’ to watch a match and pubs are struggling enough as it is with the smoking ban, people drinking at home, rising rent, tax on alcohol and massive energy costs.

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• FO

  @FortisConscius · 2 years ago

  &quot;Gosh, the Brits seems so stoic, I wonder why?&quot;<br>Now you know.

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• AR

  @ArsenaISarah · 2 years ago

  My favourite chant has to be “ We lose every week, we lose every week, you’re nothing special, we lose every week”

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• MO

  @moonramshaw1982 · 2 years ago

  Jimmy Saville. I remember when he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded😂

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• ST

  @Steve-ys1ig · 2 years ago

  You have to remember that in football games the opposing fans are separated so both set of fans will chant at each other, &nbsp;the opposing players etc. And fans will definitely go after anything that they may consider to be a weakness to put players off of their games. In the UK, Europe and South America this will be pretty standard though most players expect it and quickly learn to block it all out. It all adds to the atmosphere and the passion of the fans can actually help teams especially at home.

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