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Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:00 am
by TheFamilyCat
A work colleague has just shows this in a book of "funny" football chants.
I know that playing Stockport is a distant memory but does anyone remember the morons singing this?

Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:03 am
by Loyalclaret
Would it not be more appropriate for a team like Hartlepool?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:04 am
by cutsy123
Who?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:06 am
by UpTheBeehole
One of the most bizarre things I've ever read.
I sincerely doubt it ever happened too.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:15 am
by TheFamilyCat
Loyalclaret wrote:Would it not be more appropriate for a team like Hartlepool?
I think that was the reasoning behind the "well educated" comment.
They could've been singing it at Wembley but nobody would have heard it.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:18 am
by randomclaret2
Do they still exist ?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 10:56 am
by Culmclaret
Keep taking the mercury....
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:00 am
by piston broke
I do like the Pompey one underneath....with a big ssshhhhhhhh!!!! at the end.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:03 am
by ElectroClaret
Saddest fans in the history of footie.
By a big margin.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:07 am
by randomclaret2
It would appear they do still exist and have a big game at Lancaster City tomorrow
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:13 am
by RocketLawnChair
So let me get this straight that was in a book of 'Funny Football Chants'?. ******* side splitting is that, where can I get a copy?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:32 am
by TheFamilyCat
RocketLawnChair wrote:So let me get this straight that was in a book of 'Funny Football Chants'?. ******* side splitting is that, where can I get a copy?
All good charity shops I suspect. The book's called "One Ginger Pele" but that is credited to Spurs fans singing it to Gary Doherty.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:37 am
by Jeffbfc
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 11:50 am
by houseboy
What a weird song. It doesn't make one jot of sense. Did it really ever get sung and if so why? And what has French got to do with anything.
Interesting little story from the Wembley play-off. An article in the Daily something-or-other at the time was asking their fans why they weren't selling tickets for the play-off, one of them said 'It's bad enough being among 4 thousand of them, I'm not going anywhere where there's 40 thousand'.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:27 pm
by mickleoverclaret
Belting this classic out at Leamington and North Ferriby these days.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:34 pm
by boiledclaret
The only song I ever heard them sing was "we hate Burnley and we hate Burnley"
Over and over and over again until they went a goal down and then sat in silence.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 12:36 pm
by Culmclaret
So what Paul Barnes was actually saying when pointing to his fingers was ‘un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq’.....
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:00 pm
by THEWELLERNUT70
There was a comment from a County fan on the BBC Sport app regarding a Burnley article that went " Although we as Stockport County fans still see Burnley as our rivals..........." "but what they are doing is brilliant this season"
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:16 pm
by Ric_C
I always maintain the arrogant totally classless way the Stockport chairman looked away when we lifted the Play off trophy put some karma curse on their club ever since.

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Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:18 pm
by 50 shades of Grey
Stockport fans inventing that rivalry thing with us was akin to the bas turds making one up against Man U.
They'd be much better singing songs about Droylsden or Runcorn.
Total non-entities.
UTC NNN.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 1:25 pm
by Lord Beamish
I file Stockport fans along with Carlisle fans. They were both wannabe rivals who are now so far in our rear view mirror that they don’t even register.
I could understand more the rivalry engendered by Halifax and Rochdale because of our proximity to them geographically, but Stockport and Carlisle just baffled me.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:23 pm
by SparkyClaret
Other than crowd trouble, was there any actual rivalry?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:25 pm
by Lancasterclaret
Plenty on their side.
The Middlesborough of the day if you will.
Going into Lancaster to watch the Star Wars film tomorrow so Burnley hat is definitely going on!
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:28 pm
by UpTheBeehole
I've always wondered who the character in the bright orange blazer is
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:36 pm
by Braindead
UpTheBeehole wrote:I've always wondered who the character in the bright orange blazer is

Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 2:56 pm
by Jeffbfc
UpTheBeehole wrote:I've always wondered who the character in the bright orange blazer is
Always thought it was one of the Moore's family who owned Liverpool at the time.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:31 pm
by piston broke
houseboy wrote:What a weird song. It doesn't make one jot of sense. Did it really ever get sung and if so why? And what has French got to do with anything.
Interesting little story from the Wembley play-off. An article in the Daily something-or-other at the time was asking their fans why they weren't selling tickets for the play-off, one of them said 'It's bad enough being among 4 thousand of them, I'm not going anywhere where there's 40 thousand'.
just for you Houseboy. The story of the poor monkey/ spy/
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Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:33 pm
by UpTheBeehole
Jeffbfc wrote:Always thought it was one of the Moore's family who owned Liverpool at the time.
He seems very happy Burnley won
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:41 pm
by Culmclaret
Nah Looks nothing like Ian Moore. Or agent Moore as the Stockport fans called him.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:43 pm
by houseboy
Thanks mate, I've heard that story before and it always makes me smile. I've also heard a version where it was a German spy but that seems a bit too recent. It ceases to be funny though if you believe the bit about it being a 'powder monkey'.
Do you know why Westhoughton is known as Cow Head City (pronounced Ca Yead City)?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 3:58 pm
by piston broke
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houseboy wrote:
Do you know why Westhoughton is known as Cow Head City (pronounced Ca Yead City)?
I didn't but you intrigued me and I found this.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:10 pm
by houseboy
You learn something new every day. I always knew the story of the gate and the cow but I didn't know the cows head football story. Actually seems more plausible.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:28 pm
by gandhisflipflop
houseboy wrote:What a weird song. It doesn't make one jot of sense. Did it really ever get sung and if so why? And what has French got to do with anything.
Interesting little story from the Wembley play-off. An article in the Daily something-or-other at the time was asking their fans why they weren't selling tickets for the play-off, one of them said 'It's bad enough being among 4 thousand of them, I'm not going anywhere where there's 40 thousand'.
Do you mean the daily mail?

Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 4:58 pm
by houseboy
50 shades of Grey wrote:Stockport fans inventing that rivalry thing with us was akin to the bas turds making one up against Man U.
They'd be much better singing songs about Droylsden or Runcorn.
Total non-entities.
UTC NNN.
I loved the 'Man United are our rivals now' thing from the bitter blues. The baselessness of there arrogance was shown by the fact that at the time I worked with a load of United fans (proper ones who went to matches) and they thought the claim was hilarious, they didn't give a toss about them.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:00 pm
by houseboy
gandhisflipflop wrote:Do you mean the daily mail?

Not sure, I think it was the Express cos a Burnley fan colleague of mine at the time was an Express reader and I think it was him that showed it to me.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:10 pm
by Grumps
TheFamilyCat wrote:A work colleague has just shows this in a book of "funny" football chants.
I know that playing Stockport is a distant memory but does anyone remember the morons singing this?

Carnt be bothered to read the replies, but who actually cares, on either side, complete waste of a post
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:22 pm
by RocketLawnChair
UpTheBeehole wrote:I've always wondered who the character in the bright orange blazer is
It’s Mick Cookson former owner of Panama Joes nightclub. Considered himself a local celeb at the time.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 5:24 pm
by timshorts
Culmclaret wrote:So what Paul Barnes was actually saying when pointing to his fingers was ‘un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq’.....
I know I'm getting forgetful but I dont remember our having a player called Paul Barnes.
Now Paul barnoix I can remember, jean francois up front. Francois caspere, Andre 'le cement' Gris. Alain Ouest, and our very own French Canadian Scot-Pierre Archamp.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 7:42 pm
by ontario claret
"They're all French"? I hope that Rowls hasn't seen this.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 7:48 pm
by Top Claret
Braindead wrote:
Is this Carl Oyston?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:03 pm
by ontario claret
Hey!!! Another great Canadian import!!!
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:04 pm
by ontario claret
Dumb and Dumberer.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:12 pm
by TheFamilyCat
Grumps wrote:Carnt be bothered to read the replies, but who actually cares, on either side, complete waste of a post
Yes, you'll never get the precious seconds it took you to type it back.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:17 pm
by TheFamilyCat
SparkyClaret wrote:Other than crowd trouble, was there any actual rivalry?
There was on their side. It was stoked up by a local journalist called (I think) Steve Bellis who went into become (I think) chairman or CEO at Stockport.
I remember the No Nay Never fanzine printing press cuttings of his reports of Burnley v Stockport games. One of his lines was something like he'd rather eat cockroaches than be at Turf Moor.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Fri Dec 15, 2017 8:25 pm
by ontario claret
Were those homegrown cockroaches or imported?
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 12:55 am
by SparkyClaret
TheFamilyCat wrote:There was on their side. It was stoked up by a local journalist called (I think) Steve Bellis who went into become (I think) chairman or CEO at Stockport.
I remember the No Nay Never fanzine printing press cuttings of his reports of Burnley v Stockport games. One of his lines was something like he'd rather eat cockroaches than be at Turf Moor.
Good to know. My first memory of Stockport was us winning at Wembley (think I’d have been about 10?) and not understanding why they’d not bothered to bring fans.
Ended up meeting a Stockport fan in 2002 when at uni. First day we moved in, on hearing me say the word Burnley he booed. Never understood how there was a rivalry.
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 9:35 am
by evensteadiereddie
And to cap it all, the mini bus taking all the Stockport fans to Wembley and back was rolled over in an M6 car park after the game, I believe. Alleged to have been the work of a troop (collective noun for monkeys?) of giddy Burnley fans.
If it's not a true story, it damned well should be.

Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:21 pm
by Chester Perry
They are away at Lancaster City today - how they have fallen
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:27 pm
by Duffer_
Chester Perry wrote:They are away at Lancaster City today - how they have fallen
Yep, Lancaster City used to play in the Conference North. Quite a comedown for the Dollies.
UTC!
Re: Stockport Fans
Posted: Sat Dec 16, 2017 2:54 pm
by BurnleyFC
Stockport and Oldham - two complete no-mark, shithouse clubs if ever there were.