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ariotofmyown

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Getting a lump in me throat when I hear that only comes from listening to it sang at Twikenham. Owt else pales in comparison tbh.

Kindly hack up that lump in your throat and spit it out. Read how the 'swing low, sweet chariot' rubbish started from wikipedia. Posh, crap and were still living in colonial times. Imagine the outcry if some football fans started singing 'straight outta compton' because a black player scored a goal.

""Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" has been sung by rugby players and fans for some decades,[size=2][3][/size] but became associated with the English national side, in particular, in 1988. Coming into the last match of the 1988 season, against Ireland at Twickenham, England had lost 15 of their previous 23 matches in the Five Nations Championship. The Twickenham crowd had only seen one solitary England try in the previous two years and at half time against Ireland they were 0-3 down. However during the second half England scored six tries to give them a 35-3 win. Three of the tries came in quick succession from Chris Oti, a black player making his Twickenham debut. A group from the Benedictine school Douai started to sing a rugby club favourite – the gospel hymn "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – in honour of their new hero, large sections of the crowd joined in. The song is still regularly sung at matches by supporters.[size=2][3][/size][size=2][4][/size][size=2][5][/size] There are associated gestures, sometimes used in a drinking game, which requires those who wrongly perform the gestures to buy a round of drinks.[size=2][6][/size][size=2][7][/size]

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ladyram

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Attention campers!

There will now follow a short interlude in which I suggest you use to do a bit of light reading. I do hope you will find it entertaining and enlightening. Thankyou.

Hi de hi. 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />

[url=http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2005/02/stoke-on-trent/]http://www.chavtowns.co.uk/2005/02/stoke-on-trent/

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DannyStokie

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Kindly hack up that lump in your throat and spit it out. Read how the 'swing low, sweet chariot' rubbish started from wikipedia. Posh, crap and were still living in colonial times. Imagine the outcry if some football fans started singing 'straight outta compton' because a black player scored a goal.

""Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" has been sung by rugby players and fans for some decades,[size=2][3][/size] but became associated with the English national side, in particular, in 1988. Coming into the last match of the 1988 season, against Ireland at Twickenham, England had lost 15 of their previous 23 matches in the Five Nations Championship. The Twickenham crowd had only seen one solitary England try in the previous two years and at half time against Ireland they were 0-3 down. However during the second half England scored six tries to give them a 35-3 win. Three of the tries came in quick succession from Chris Oti, a black player making his Twickenham debut. A group from the Benedictine school Douai started to sing a rugby club favourite – the gospel hymn "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" – in honour of their new hero, large sections of the crowd joined in. The song is still regularly sung at matches by supporters.[size=2][3][/size][size=2][4][/size][size=2][5][/size] There are associated gestures, sometimes used in a drinking game, which requires those who wrongly perform the gestures to buy a round of drinks.[size=2][6][/size][size=2][7][/size]

I assume you may be over thinking this a bit mate.

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PrivateDerby

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That,s why you,re all in rented social housing...nobody can afford a house..that,s why you sold so many season tickets..all your rents are paid....dooooh..i,m on about attendances now...

Stoke -On -Trent........ Home to the biggest council estate in Europe. Are you a Bentilee boy Richard?

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froggg

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We got the biggest everything matey.. including biggest football team in the midlands..Going bed now. gotta get up for work.. (do you understand that last bit) ..Heard you got one thing bigger than us...huge job centre....lol

School ya mean you plumb bob......... 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

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PrivateDerby

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We got the biggest everything matey.. including biggest football team in the midlands..Going bed now. gotta get up for work.. (do you understand that last bit) ..Heard you got one thing bigger than us...huge job centre....lol

Do you work Cobridge lights then? Is it a bit early yet?

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Mr Tibbs

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We got the biggest everything matey.. including biggest football team in the midlands..Going bed now. gotta get up for work.. (do you understand that last bit) ..Heard you got one thing bigger than us...huge job centre....lol

'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':lol:' />

You need to have more than a few years of PL football and 1 season in Europe before you get that tag fella!

You probably own the worst trophy cabinet in the midlands. 'http://www.dcfcfans.co.uk/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/mellow' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':mellow:' />

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