General Atmosphere

[ECYellow]

Harris song has been shared a few times, including in this thread:


Allez Allez Allez was posted on here back in 2018:

Home Match Day Thread Post in thread '+++ 28/4/2018 OUFC v Rochdale Match Day Thread +++'

30 Apr 2018

since I was just a boy,
I knew that I would be,
Standing on the terrace,
And cheering on our team,
I know we have been down,
You’ll never knock us out,
Together we’re united,
So hear the oxford shout,
ALLEZ ALLEZ ALLEZ

• Bes duckingham

I also looked for 'Take me home, London Road' - found more references to Peterborough than Oxford. Don't know the story but apparently the Manor version got played on the radio not long ago: https://x.com/ADawsonBros/status/1781642836309397785 (Do our singing lads even remember the Manor???)

Matches Post in thread 'New chant/Yellows specific song?'

9 Jan 2025

Take me home, London road
To the place I belong
On the terrace, at the Manor
Take me home, London road

A small change but this version, perhaps?

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I haven't heard the Dembele song (yet), and there was a Kyle Edwards song at Luton that I couldn't remember afterwards.

I'm fascinated by the culture and evolution of football songs and feel like as soon as they get written down they'll change again. There's no central authority organising committee proposing and approving lyrics, it's an almost unique phenomenon in society but ultimately it is just people yelling. But yes, +1 to the idea of having somewhere online to collate them. Then again I'm sure there are 1000x similar suggestions buried in this forum which haven't borne fruit. One key point is that it's usually an evolution of an older song rather than any "new" songs being sung. There's a balance to be struck between the complexity of a song and the ability to learn/spread the words around the ground. I've previously listed 20+ songs/chants which I've heard over the last few seasons and would gladly contribute to anyone wanting to bring them together in one place.

Personally, I picked up more songs in the pub before last season's Reading game than anywhere else. I'm not a great traveller but definitely our away atmosphere is 10x what we get at the Kassam. But without a doubt it has improved at home this last year, and more power to the Block 19 lads who are making it happen.

The worse song to ever grace our club. Invented by the bin dippers and now being sung at our club. Vile.

 

[holdsteady]

The worse song to ever grace our club. Invented by the bin dippers and now gracing our club. Vile.

They have been trying to get it going for ages at home, only the same group sing it while no one else does, its never going to take off thankfully.

 

[Scrongo]

Allez Allez Allez is awful, no wonder it don't catch on

 

[werthersoriginal]

If we put up the words to chants on the scoreboard we will be a laughing stock.

Remember how we took the piss out of Reading with their "We are the Reading" song and video? We all said how tinpot they were, and that we would never be like that. Well, putting the words to chants on the scoreboard, would be an even bigger embarrassment and away fans would (deservedly) rip us a new one.

They could have a bouncing ball over the words , like you used to get at pantomimes?

 

[Scrongo]

Allez Allez Allez is awful, no wonder it don't catch on

For some reason it reminds me of Fleetwood

 

[bazzer9461]

If we put up the words to chants on the scoreboard we will be a laughing stock.

Remember how we took the piss out of Reading with their "We are the Reading" song and video? We all said how tinpot they were, and that we would never be like that. Well, putting the words to chants on the scoreboard, would be an even bigger embarrassment and away fans would (deservedly) rip us a new one.

I can imagine the score board now

you’re going home on an ambulance
build me up with yellow and blue now f**k off swindon

 

[Fanatica]

The worse song to ever grace our club. Invented by the bin dippers and now being sung at our club. Vile.

Hi EC

Going to stop you there - we actually created the song before Liverpool.

How do I know that? I created it. Liverpool started their version approximately 6 months later. At first, we used Ole Ole Ole, however Liverpool popularised Allez.

We were actually the first club in England to use that song.

(I now hate it and refuse to sing it too, but the point still stands)