Watching my 2nd / Czech team over here, our winger made a terrible attempt at controlling the ball. Three sheets to the wind, i sang:

"That's why you play for us...."

Any more for any more?

We're far from the greatest team, the world has ever seen.

You're not Robbie Blake

The one about Lukaku and the size of his willy?

There were some very funny chants back in the 70s but alas political correctness would blow a gasket if I were to print them on here (yes guys, many of you KNOW what they were).

houseboy wrote:There were some very funny chants back in the 70s but alas political correctness would blow a gasket if I were to print them on here (yes guys, many of you KNOW what they were).

Political correctness has gone mad.

houseboy wrote:There were some very funny chants back in the 70s but alas political correctness would blow a gasket if I were to print them on here (yes guys, many of you KNOW what they were).

I don't. I wasn't born. Can you print them?

If people get offended then so be it, you can't censor the past!

starting_11 wrote:I don't. I wasn't born. Can you print them?

If people get offended then so be it, you can't censor the past!

I wish I could mate but unfortunately I have two problems:
1. I would quite possibly get banned from the site.
2. They are probably these days borderline illegal.
Actually the No Nay Never chant was started by myself and a mate and his brother one day on the Longside (it was actually my mate who came up with the idea so I claim no writing credits). So I have a minor claim to fame as it were. We did use the word 'Blackburn' though, not the illegitimate child version, that was a later rendition invented by someone else.

My favourite

cheers for that

houseboy wrote:I wish I could mate but unfortunately I have two problems:
1. I would quite possibly get banned from the site.
2. They are probably these days borderline illegal.
Actually the No Nay Never chant was started by myself and a mate and his brother one day on the Longside (it was actually my mate who came up with the idea so I claim no writing credits). So I have a minor claim to fame as it were. We did use the word 'Blackburn' though, not the illegitimate child version, that was a later rendition invented by someone else.

Wait, what? You and yours invented the No Nay Never chant?

citation needed.

duncandisorderly wrote:Wait, what? You and yours invented the No Nay Never chant?

citation needed.

I agree with Duncan. This claim needs some verification.

starting_11 wrote:My favourite

cheers for that

It's quite ironic bud that although I was involved in the music scene for years and I have written many songs (no you won't have heard of them) the most famous one I was ever involved in launching was a bloody football chant.

duncandisorderly wrote:Wait, what? You and yours invented the No Nay Never chant?

citation needed.

If I had written it and could prove it I would have claimed the rights and been a lot better off than I am now. The 'writer' was a guy called Mick Day and we were just stood there one day and he said what do you think of this, and out it came (hold on there guys, I'm talking about the chant). Me and his brother joined in and the rest is history.

Foulthrow wrote:I agree with Duncan. This claim needs some verification.

I know it sounds a big claim but if you work on the basis that someone had to sing it first and that person would have been a Claret then it's not so mystifying. As I said it wasn't my original idea but yes, it was Mick, myself and his brother (who's first name I have forgotten sadly) who launched that on the world. Very early 70s I think.

No one likes us, we don't care!

If I had the wings of an eagle
The arse of a dirty black crow
I'd fly over Ewood tomorrow
And probably wouldn't do anything as I'd have no concept of emotion, let alone football and rivalry.

Tip toe through the Longside with your boots on...........(inspired me to buy my first pair of Docs)....come tip toe with me

houseboy wrote:No Nay Never chant was started by myself and a mate and his brother one day on the Longside

The best bit is, I think he is being serious, he genuinely believes he and his two mates, simultaneously, out of the blue burst into a rendition of 'No Nay Never' one day back in the 70's.

houseboy wrote:I know it sounds a big claim but if you work on the basis that someone had to sing it first and that person would have been a Claret then it's not so mystifying. As I said it wasn't my original idea but yes, it was Mick, myself and his brother (who's first name I have forgotten sadly) who launched that on the world. Very early 70s I think.

My two to get going are Graham DiBranchio (Man United League Cup, 2002), and Aye Aye Ashley (Charlton, 2014). I’ve also tried loads that haven’t!!

Chants start and grow, but someone has to have the balls to start them. Early 70’s and the Ken Furphy version of No Nay Never (Wild Rover)

I wonder why Blackburn just copied our song to them in the late 70’s? I believe they claim 1978 as the year they came up with very slightly tweaked lyrics, so possibly 6 years later.

Diesel wrote:The best bit is, I think he is being serious, he genuinely believes he and his two mates, simultaneously, out of the blue burst into a rendition of 'No Nay Never' one day back in the 70's.

The best bit is you seem to think that these things appear out of thin air and nobody actually starts them, they just appear from nowhere. How quaint. The fact that you have actually communicated with someone who started (or helped to start) a football chant seems to have overwhelmed you. The fact that you have never come across this situation before seems to have caused you some difficulty. Every football chant you have ever heard in your life has had to start with the first person singing it, that may be a difficult fact for you to grasp but nevertheless fact it is.
So: someone had to be the first to sing no nay never at a game.
It was born at Turf Moor in the very early 70s.
I attended games so regularly at that time I went 10 years and only missed one home game and that was a friendly.
I used to stand on the Longside with an old school mate named Mick Day who had thought it up previously and we sang it.
It's very simple - no big deal - I have no reason to lie about it.
The simple fact is I know what happened and you don't (if you were even alive then).
There you go, I have presented you with the facts that you cannot refute other than by just saying 'I don't believe you' which is no argument at all is it.

Mick Day? Made up name.

Houseboy, have you ever gone by another name on these forums? It seems Juan made a claim last year.


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The thick plottens.

I think everyone pretty much agrees the season it got going from a number of discussions. Sometime around 1972, and Rovers got theirs going around 1978.

Which fan(s) of Burnley started it though....

Pretty sure it was me and my two mates Thurs Day and Juan Two-Testing, who came up with that chant.

Diesel wrote:Mick Day? Made up name.

Diesel? You've been watching too many Fast and Furious films.
Strictly speaking ALL names are made up anyway so in a broad sense you are right. Mine's Ian, what's yours?

houseboy wrote:Actually the No Nay Never chant was started by myself and a mate and his brother one day on the Longside (it was actually my mate who came up with the idea so I claim no writing credits). So I have a minor claim to fame as it were. We did use the word 'Blackburn' though, not the illegitimate child version, that was a later rendition invented by someone else.

houseboy wrote:Strictly speaking ALL names are made up anyway so in a broad sense you are right. Mine's Ian, what's yours?

*Creepy*

Strangely, I think I know who this guy is, and if he is who I think, he speaks the truth.

Devils_Advocate wrote:

No comment.

Diesel wrote:*Creepy*

That's an odd name. Are you from the Adams family?

I don't understand why people feel the needs to be d!cks with houseboy about it? It could well be true, but acting like a 10 year old girl on the school play ground about it is pathetic really.

I have been going on the turf since the mid 60s and started going regularly in 1971. I never heard the no nay never song until around the late 70s.

I would not like to think who kicked the song off, as both sides started singing it about the same time

Burnley1989 wrote:I don't understand why people feel the needs to be d!cks with houseboy about it? It could well be true, but acting like a 10 year old girl on the school play ground about it is pathetic really.

Obsessing and getting excited about football chants sounds more what a 10 year old girl would act like rather than grown men and women. Taking the p*ss out of them for doing so seems perfectly reasonable

And now you're going to believe us,
And now you're going to believe us,
And now you're going to believe us...
We really finished 7th!

Top Claret wrote:I have been going on the turf since the mid 60s and started going regularly in 1971. I never heard the no nay never song until around the late 70s.

I would not like to think who kicked the song off, as both sides started singing it about the same time

The original words were “Ken Furphy”. Ken left a Blackburn in 1973, and the song was about us being above them, which by the late 70’s we weren’t.

Top Claret wrote:I have been going on the turf since the mid 60s and started going regularly in 1971. I never heard the no nay never song until around the late 70s.

I would not like to think who kicked the song off, as both sides started singing it about the same time

Surely we thought of it first? It makes sense for us to see ‘Blackburn Rovers’ and write a chant (roughly) to the tune of ‘Wild Rover’ than for them to just randomly come up with that tune for a song about us.

I started going with my dad in the early 70s and I started the "come on Burnley" chant

Devils_Advocate wrote:Obsessing and getting excited about football chants sounds more what a 10 year old girl would act like rather than grown men and women. Taking the p*ss out of them for doing so seems perfectly reasonable

Why open the thread then just to be a d!ck?

I invented the ole ole ole song.

Burnley1989 wrote:Why open the thread then just to be a d!ck?

I find the threads amusing and enjoy reading them especially the ones where people make up new chants. Also I wasn't being a dick I was just giving my opinion that what he was saying was a load of rubbish and did so in a light hearted way.

Why don't you lighten up a bit. Maybe if you go and invent a new football song and post it on here it will cheer you up

Claretforever wrote:Houseboy, have you ever gone by another name on these forums? It seems Juan made a claim last year.

Burnley1989 wrote:I don't understand why people feel the needs to be d!cks with houseboy about it? It could well be true, but acting like a 10 year old girl on the school play ground about it is pathetic really.

Who do you think you are, the Great Mickey Day?

" Bertie Mee never spoke to Bill Shankley
about the North Bank Highbury,
First line therefore is a no
Questionable if they did then discuss the Longside Burnley "

Meat pie, sausage roll, come on Burnley score a goal!

I've mentioned this before, maybe not on here but.

Instead of singing 'get into em' we should sing 'retain your shape!'

Dyche would love it

Claretmatt4 wrote: Instead of singing 'get into em' we should sing 'retain your shape!'

I find myself shouting this, or variants of, quite a lot at Burnley games recently, especially when we're 1-0 up.

"We're all going on a quite possibly just one away game there and back"

I started the Burnley cha cha song back in the 60s it soon caught on. My one and only claim to fame

One man and his dog, went to sh*t on Ewood!

Then he went to jail for trespassing and indecent exposure.