Sweet Caroline
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Ox4Eva
Level: John Aldridge
(141 Apps, 90 Gls)
Playing it on rad ox now,
Have not heard that song in ages at the ka££tad, oh how I have missed it, always sends a shiver down my spine
Will we hear it on Saturday,I bloody hope so
COYY
Yes people singing 'da da da' sends a shiver down my spine too ?
Been so long we've forgotten!! Seven weeks on Sat? and only once since 28 April!
WuTang
Level: Yemi Odubade
(158 Apps, 31 Gls)
It had it's moment, let it die. It's no club anthem or linked to us in anyway. Been overplayed at the Kassam and sometimes kills a good post-win atmosphere. Fans start singing to the players and then that blasts over it all 
Anthomic
Level: Jack Midson
(68 Apps, 15 Gls)
Not been overplayed this season.?It had it's moment, let it die. It's no club anthem or linked to us in anyway. Been overplayed at the Kassam and sometimes kills a good post-win atmosphere. Fans start singing to the players and then that blasts over it all
WuTang
Level: Yemi Odubade
(158 Apps, 31 Gls)
I don't.... I never liked it, the lyrics don't flow,they're are not easy to remember, ... and it is, as @Oldham rightly points out, 'used' by other football clubs as well as many egg-chasers tooTrueMaybe that's why some people miss it
Mary Hopkins( or Sandi Shaw) -Those Were The Days, ( London road end favourite for quite a few years ), along with 'When Your Smiling' should be contenders for 'our' club song IMO... both have lyrics that flow and that are easy to remember...and both were London Road end standards for some years/seasons in the 70s (& beyond)
Sandi Shaw, incidentally, is a resident of Oxfordshire, she lives in Southwest Oxon
mariokempes
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
Think she lives in Marcham
Do you think she ever pops into the Abingdon branch of shoezone ?
I was going to say Freeman Hardy and Willis but that would give my age away
Do you think she ever pops into the Abingdon branch of shoezone ?
I was going to say Freeman Hardy and Willis but that would give my age away
Ox4Eva
Level: John Aldridge
(141 Apps, 90 Gls)
she doesn't buy shoes
whoosed?
whoosed?
werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
I like it! Look forward to hearing it again. When we only used to lose occasionally, I liked it when they played Dont Stop Believing
psquared
Level: Chris Maguire
(79 Apps, 22 Gls)
Essexyellows
Level: Cameron Brannagan
(311 Apps, 57 Gls)
It gets around a bit........
Euro 2020: How Neil Diamond's Sweet Caroline became an accidental football anthem
A song written by Neil Diamond 52 years ago has become the England team's unofficial Euro 2020 song.
www.bbc.co.uk
OnlyOneUnited
Level: Jack Midson
(68 Apps, 15 Gls)
Since we've started playing it at Oxford I've always felt it's a bit generic for us. I don't really feel any OUFC connection to the song. In recent years football's become even more commercialised, but Oxford have seemingly resisted a lot of the s**t (no song after scoring a goal for example). I felt like using Sweet Caroline after a win, generic sporting singalong, was a step in the wrong direction for us.
Now its been adopted by England I'd like to see us give it up.
As an England fan, with what's happening in this tournament, I actually have grown to enjoy it in the context of the England team. It was great to see the players enjoying the singalong with the fans after the Denmark game.
Maybe we can drop it for OUFC and enjoy it as England fans?
It'll feel faintly ridiculous if it becomes the anthem of the tournament as England (hopefully!) win the Euros. And in a few weeks time we've got it blaring out after a scrappy win in front of 6k at the breezeblock!
Now its been adopted by England I'd like to see us give it up.
As an England fan, with what's happening in this tournament, I actually have grown to enjoy it in the context of the England team. It was great to see the players enjoying the singalong with the fans after the Denmark game.
Maybe we can drop it for OUFC and enjoy it as England fans?
It'll feel faintly ridiculous if it becomes the anthem of the tournament as England (hopefully!) win the Euros. And in a few weeks time we've got it blaring out after a scrappy win in front of 6k at the breezeblock!
mooro
Level: Dave Roberts
(176 Apps, 8 Gls)
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Agree 100% @OnlyOneUnited -well said............ will bookmakers William Hill pay a bit of advertising revenue if the powers that be persist with it this season?- (as its used on their ,(william hill), current advert on tv)
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Can’t we just enjoy it for what it is?
It‘s not ‘our‘ song any more than England, Northern Ireland’s or anyone else who ‘claims’ they played it first.
Who cares, it’s just a feel good song for the masses, enjoy it.
It‘s not ‘our‘ song any more than England, Northern Ireland’s or anyone else who ‘claims’ they played it first.
Who cares, it’s just a feel good song for the masses, enjoy it.
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
The trouble is Oxford have never really has A song.
Coventry have a song written by Jimmy Hill, Stoke for some strange reason have Delilah and many other clubs have one.
If fans on here are remotely representative of the overall fan base, nobody would be able to agree on the same song in the first place!
OnlyOneUnited
Level: Jack Midson
(68 Apps, 15 Gls)
In which case don't force it. Who says every single club in the country has to have a song?! We've survived without one up until recently.
Just stick on 'If The Kids Are United' or 'The Boys Are Back In Town' and be done with it.
Just let the fans sing and show their appreciation in any way they want. Our post-goal singalong to the tune of 'Carnival de Paris' always gets everyone going, and has often been used by our fans at full time to celebrate too. I prefer that. The day we start playing a song after we score will be a sad day if it ever comes (hopefully it won't) because it'll take that spontaneous celebration away from us.
We're not Americans, why do we need to have a song to cheerlead us?!
Just stick on 'If The Kids Are United' or 'The Boys Are Back In Town' and be done with it.
Just let the fans sing and show their appreciation in any way they want. Our post-goal singalong to the tune of 'Carnival de Paris' always gets everyone going, and has often been used by our fans at full time to celebrate too. I prefer that. The day we start playing a song after we score will be a sad day if it ever comes (hopefully it won't) because it'll take that spontaneous celebration away from us.
We're not Americans, why do we need to have a song to cheerlead us?!
My favourite ever oxford song was 'the anthrobus is coming', based on the vengaboys classic, which my old mate matt sang by himself in some dingy uncovered away stand about 25 years ago. Nobody joined in. Loved it.
werthersoriginal
Level: James Constable
(280 Apps, 106 Gls)
A lot of songs died when we moved to the current ground. The east stand doesn’t really work as a home end.
OUFC OX3
Level: Jack Midson
(68 Apps, 15 Gls)
The current English UFC fighter Darren Till has walked out to this song since 2018 (maybe before).
My local rivals Hougang United @MalaysiaYellow have been playing this since 2019.
My local rivals Hougang United @MalaysiaYellow have been playing this since 2019.
ZeroTheHero
Level: Phil Whitehead
(238 Apps)
After the Euros, every single club will be playing it after every winning match. Playing it at the end of a win will be even more generic than it was before!
Foley
Level: Colin Harrington
(260 Apps, 30 Gls)
Im not sure about that.
I seem to remember the last year at the Manor with crowds of 4000 and very little atmosphere/songs (not that there was much to sing about)
In the Promotion years the Ultras came up with a load of new songs (my favourite was the Tony Martinez one)
Surreal Madrid
Level: Ricardinho
(39 Apps, 3 Gls)
Mine was 'Lothar. Lothar Matt Elliott. Lothar Matt Elliott. Lothar Matt Elliott!! sang by the London Road in that 95/96 season name checking German legend Lothar Matteus and to the tune of an old Russian folk song (you know the one).
Essexyellows
Level: Cameron Brannagan
(311 Apps, 57 Gls)
Matt the stone mason?
