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A complete football songbook of every english and scottish club.

One of my favourites...

Sung to Nottingham Forest fans.....

Robin Hood, Robin Hood, riding through the glen
Robin Hood, Robin Hood, with his merry men
Steals from the rich, gives to the poor

[pause}

Silly cunt, silly cunt, silly cunt  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

I got that for my birthday along with the worst player guide (Swindon's was Jason Drysdale!).

Fucking marvellous behaviour!

what are the swindon songs?

2-1 To the Forest Boys! :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
Swindon rule the west country and Oxford rule fuck all!

This one i have never heard....


Swindon, Swindon, Ra Ra Ra!
Oxford, Oxford, Ha Ha Ha!
Bristol, Bristol, Ba Ba Ba!
Scousers, Scousers, where's my car?  :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:

don't blame me, it was john smiths fault...

When we get liverpool in the cup final, will sing it to the bastards!

I like the last one :Ride On Fatbury's Lovestick:
All things bright and beautiful is a classic!

in my opinion, i don't like that book, not that many chants in it. you could find more on the internet and its cheaper  :)

Got given it last Christmas, entertaining toilet book

Best Swindon chant is the infamous 'Going Down'/ 'So are we' one from when we played QPR in the Premiership.

Is the song that Norwich had for Peter Crouch in there still? I quite liked it.

I might get it for my daddy for christmas,he likes hearing funny songs like that :D

Ralphy, can you check the songbook for the Hearts European song? (to the tune of my way). I would like to sing along but don't know all of the words.  :oops:

Cheers.

And now, the end is near
We've followed Hearts from Perth to Paisley
We've travelled far, by bus and car
And other times we've gone by railway
We've been to Aberdeen
We hate the Hibs, they make us spew up
So make a noise, you Gorgie boys
We're going to Europe

To see HMFC
We'll even dig the channel tunnel
When we're afloat on some big boat
We'll tie our scarves around the funnel
We have no cares for other players
Like Rossi, Boniek or Tardelli
When we're overseas, the Hibs will be in Portobelly

Thankyou Ralphy, much obliged!

You owe me a pint! That took ages to type whilst eating my cottage pie at the same time  :)

I'll be up your local in 20 mins  :)

Trust me, if you value your life, you do not want to be visiting any of my locals! Some of the roughest boozers in Europe! Have you seen trainspotting? :roll:

trainspotting's set in glasgow isn't it?  :D

Yeah Trainspotting is Glasgow!

''thats the best i've felt since archie gemmill scored against ... ''

Not as far as I am aware! The first scene is in Princes Street and there is one part filmed on Leith Walk which is a stones throw from my flat. I think the pub where they mug the Yank is in Leith, however I may be wrong!

schoolboy error by me!

they beat up that yank who comes into the bar to use the bog during the fringe festival, so it's obviously edinburgh

sorry for doubting you!

Anyway Jock STFC, what the hell is going on at Hearts?

Another rich dictator ruining football  :(

Nae probs wee man! :mrgreen:

Fuck only knows, everything is in turmoil! Apparently it is going to cost Hearts half a mill to compensate all the sackings! Robson has been put off now as he got on well with Phil Anderton, Hearts' Mark Devlin. Seemingly Anderton hadn't delivered as Romanov had wanted in his 8 months, despite getting 12,500 season ticket holders and filling the stadium each week. It is a shame really for the 'proper' Hearts fans who were starting to believe something special was happening. Kicked in the teeth now.  :evil:

Yep Trainspotting the book and most of the sequel is set in leith, they are all hearts fans.

That is a good book, but have to agree that its not rly worth buying it

 Johno, as we know, is the official TEF chant archivist.

 Perhaps that could be a feature on the developed web site.

You sure? Leith is Hibee territory!

Yeah, my mistake they are Hibs fans, there's a chapter in the book where they go to hearts v hibs.

Sounds good. What is the book called?

Trainspotting! You should definitely read it, loads about Leith.

If you've only seen the film Ed, definately read the book. It's a whole lot better, and they cut loads out to make it into the film.

The London sex cinema scene got completely chopped out  :D

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Sorry, I meant the sequel!!

Ah, sunny Leith, my adopted home! Full of drugs, drunks and other such delights! So good, the Proclaimers wrote a song about it!

Easter Road, home of the wee team, Hibernian

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Top of Leith Walk, towards the centre of town

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The block of flats I live in!

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The sequel is called Porno but that chapter is in trainspotting.

In Porno spud is trying to write a history of Leith.

I need to get back into reading, will try and get a copy of both books. Its quite good reading books based in places that you know about. The detective Rebus novels are set in Edinburgh, in fact Fettes Police Station where Rebus is based is just round here somewhere!

If you've seen The Beach (film) but not read the book, I'd recommend this also. The film is utter crap in comparison and rips the heart out of the book.

Oh, lets stick Leo (a yank, ffs) in there as the lead, and completely change the ending too :nuts:

The book is impressive in the way it makes you build up a picture in your mind of who they are and where they are (the film knackers this completely).

Two mates got the urge and did a round the world trip after reading it.

Edinburgh's good.  Me and Mrs Taylor had a weekend there last year.  We went to Easter Road end everything.  It was as cold as FUCK!

The sequal is called Porno, but Glue and other books by Welsh all have subtle links with various cameos by Spud, Begbie etc.

Didn't know that, I haven't read any of the other ones but I was thinking of getting them, are they worth reading?

I own every book by Irvine Welsh, I found having got to grips with the lingo they are very readable, porno is good.  Glue I think is an excellent read, as is Filth which very subtley links back to the others.  The acid house, ecstacy,  and maribou stork nightmares are much more surreal and dark, but the short stories in the acid house make for good reading.  If you read glue and like it have a read of Human Punk by John King, who wrote the football factory trilogy, also white trash by him is very entertaining IMHO.

Cheers, I think I'll probably get glue and filth first then.

I also thought Glue and Filth were superb.  Filth is very dark mind.  If you liked Porno then you'll love Glue.

Anyone read anything by Charles Bukowski?  I read his first book Post Office the other day, and really enjoyed it.  All the other beat generation stuff I've tried to read I haven't got into.

Filth is a brilliant dark disturbing read.

Not read the book but the Acid House Film is cracking.

What's Glue about?

A load of mates in edinburgh and it covers their growing up over a number of years, with cameos from trainspotting charcters.  Not too sure it was some time since I read it, but if you like the others it's much along the same lines.