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WARNING - ORIGINAL POST CONTAINS LONG RANT


I thought I'd start a thread in the hope that if this guy is any good, he won't have "Ooooh, Razza Camara" chanted to him, Zamora style.

We are also in danger, due to the amount of syllables in his name, of using the Paul Peschisolido/Forest are losing chant. You know, the "FOREST ARE LOSING! CLAPCLAP  CLAPCLAPCLAP". I mean I say that's a chant, but it's actually just a spoken statement followed by the South Stand clapping how many syllables were in the statement they just said.

Poor Johnny Russell had a decent chant at Dundee United, but instead we've opted for "Super, Super John", a chant made all the more bizarre by the fact he's not called John.

We also have a rather interesting take on Slade's "Cum On Feel The Noize". The original lyics are as follows:

"Come on feel the noise, Girls rock the boys,We get wild, wild, wild, wild, wild, wild"

Like all many choruses in pop songs, the chorus is catchy - and that is partly down to the fact it rhymes. Noise and boys, I'm sure you will all agree, rhymes.

Swansea City fans were rather clever in employing this chant, because their in-form striker's surname happened to rhyme with the name of the club. This makes their rendition of "Cum On Feel The Noize" catchy, like the original song.

"Come on Wilfred Bony, Score some goals for Swansea. We get wild, wild, wild..."

Now the rhyme is not perfect. Bony is not called Wilfreid Bonsea, not Swansea called Swony. But it still works.

I can only presume a few people saw the vine of Bony's rendition of his own chant as he ran onto Swansea's training ground, clunking the studs of his boots to the beat, do the rounds on social media and thought "you know what, that's a good chant. We have to have that chant."

The most important part of that chants success, however, is the lyrics, rather than the chant's demands for a goal from the centre foward. We wouldn't know of it, if the lyrics had been "Come on Perez Michu, score some goals for Swansea".

This makes our chant for Chris Martin problematic. 

"Come on Chrissy Martin, Score some goals for Derby."

I opted against studying English at university in the end.  But I know enough about the language I like to call my first to recognise that "Martin" and "Derby" do not rhyme, or even sound anything alike.

You might think "oh come on, it's a half-decent chant, he's our most regular starting striker and his name fits the chant." 

That would be fine, but for the fact his name doesn't fit. How often do you think he gets called Chrissy? How many Chris', or Christophers, do you know called "Chrissy", especially ones who weight about 16 stone, stand 6 foot tall and have banning orders from every pub in Norfolk?

So not only have we nicked another team's chant. and replaced it with lyrics that don't rhyme, but we've also had to change the name of our player just to get it to fit.

So yeah. Let's think of something better...

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The super John one really pisses me off too. Heard the South Stand give his old song a go during the Fulham game so maybe that will make another appearance soon.

I have actually heard the players call Martin 'Chrissy' in interviews so I don't think its forced in there from nowhere.

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1 minute ago, Stedcfc said:

The super John one really pisses me off too. Heard the South Stand give his old song a go during the Fulham game so maybe that will make another appearance soon.

I have actually heard the players call Martin 'Chrissy' in interviews so I don't think its forced in there from nowhere.

Sang it at Leeds away twice too.

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