Sweet Caroline

OnlyOneUnited said:
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!
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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!
 
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?!
 
We have no songs, all people seem to sing is the inane yellows yellows..
 
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.

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werthersoriginal said:
A lot of songs died when we moved to the current ground. The east stand doesn’t really work as a home end.
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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)
 
Ctophe said:
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.
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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).
 
Ctophe said:
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.
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Matt the stone mason?
 
Bring Back Magic by pilot it was played at the manor in the seventies every time we won. I remember the Manchester United Fans getting upset with it being played when we beat them at the manor in the old second division. 1-0 Derek Clarke I think.😊
 
Unfortunately, our victory song will have to be retired.
we cannot use that ever again.☹️
 
I know this doesn't resonate for most, but for me it is - and always will be - a Boston Red Sox song (and I don't even like them).

They've been playing it every 8th inning for 20 years; Neil Diamond has been to Fenway to sing it; and most pointedly, he led the crowd in a sing-a-long the game after the marathon bombing - it then recharted in a big way and between them they raised tons of money for charity.

Whether England or Oxford, to me it will always feel like copying the Red Sox, every bit as much as if we started singing "I'm forever blowing bubbles"!
 
Belgium Yellow said:
We did have a song, it was a great one. Problem is that it can't be played anymore.
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.... technically 'it' could (?) ..... the disgraced glam paedo's former backing outfit, The Glitter Band have very much distanced themselves from their previous association with him. Pre Lockdown, The Glitter Band were regularly performing live at festivals in the UK and Internationally, as well as touring in their own right. Also, they have re-recorded all the tracks they performed back in the glam era, (obviously without Paul Gadd aka Gary Glitter on vocals......

granted this is not the best quality, captured live at punk & disorderly festival in Berlin a few years ago......

 
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Sarge said:
.... technically 'it' could (?) ..... the disgraced glam paedo's former backing outfit, The Glitter Band have very much distanced themselves from their previous association with him. Pre Lockdown, The Glitter Band were regularly performing live at festivals in the UK and Internationally, as well as touring in their own right. Also, they have re-recorded all the tracks they performed back in the glam era, (obviously without Paul Gadd aka Gary Glitter on vocals......

granted this is not the best quality, captured live at punk & disorderly festival in Berlin a few years ago......

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Great stuff Sarge.
Can you imagine our first game of the 'new era', have them booked to play the team out onto the pitch, our new 'London Road' in full swing?
 
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