Superior Acuña Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Hark now here, The geordies sing, The Sunderland ran away, And we will fight, Forevermore, Because of new years day What is the story behind this song? What happened on new years day? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Loads of teams sing something similar but I am led to believe there was once some battles on nyd back in the day Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfella Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 New Years Day (or Boxing Day) was traditionally Derby day, along with either Good Friday or Easter Monday. I can't remember singing the song before New Years Day 1985, so it may celebrate Peter The Great's hat trick that day Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jill Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I've wondered this for a while, my football history knowledge is crap. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Heard the exact same chant during the Wolves v Man City game but with "City" in place of "Geordies" and "United" in place of "Sunderland". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
geordiedean Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 In the 50s 60s and 70s the christmas games were traditionally against your local rivals because of travel etc over the period...remember in them days most of the country closed for a week or so...no shops,or anything open, reduced public transport etc so the league used to make it that you played your local rivals at this period Our one refers to New Years day 1985 where we eat the scum down the road 3-1 with sir peter getting a hat trick missing a penalty and the mackems having 2 men sent off Sheff wed sing it because of a boxing day game in which they thrashed united hope that clears things up Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superior Acuña Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 In the 50s 60s and 70s the christmas games were traditionally against your local rivals because of travel etc over the period...remember in them days most of the country closed for a week or so...no shops,or anything open, reduced public transport etc so the league used to make it that you played your local rivals at this period Our one refers to New Years day 1985 where we eat the scum down the road 3-1 with sir peter getting a hat trick missing a penalty and the mackems having 2 men sent off Sheff wed sing it because of a boxing day game in which they thrashed united hope that clears things up Cheers, wondered for years. Always thought it was probably some hooligan event. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crumpy Gunt Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 New Years Day (or Boxing Day) was traditionally Derby day, along with either Good Friday or Easter Monday. I can't remember singing the song before New Years Day 1985, so it may celebrate Peter The Great's hat trick that day Aye, that's how I remember it as well. Colin West scored for the filth and they had two sent off ref was labelled racist because the two sent off were dar...coloured! Anyone remember who they were? One spent time on loan at SJP iirc. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
binnsy Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 New Years Day (or Boxing Day) was traditionally Derby day, along with either Good Friday or Easter Monday. I can't remember singing the song before New Years Day 1985, so it may celebrate Peter The Great's hat trick that day Aye, that's how I remember it as well. Colin West scored for the filth and they had two sent off ref was labelled racist because the two sent off were dar...coloured! Anyone remember who they were? One spent time on loan at SJP iirc. Howard Gayle and Gary Bennett were the two that got sent off for them. Think Beardsley missed a pen as well as scoring 3 goals. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueStar Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 Swansea sing "The Cardiff swam away" in reference to 1988 when 30 Cardiff fans were rushed by a load of Swansea nutters and jumped into Swansea Bay to escape Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Brummiemag Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 In the 50s 60s and 70s the christmas games were traditionally against your local rivals because of travel etc over the period...remember in them days most of the country closed for a week or so...no shops,or anything open, reduced public transport etc so the league used to make it that you played your local rivals at this period Our one refers to New Years day 1985 where we eat the scum down the road 3-1 with sir peter getting a hat trick missing a penalty and the mackems having 2 men sent off Sheff wed sing it because of a boxing day game in which they thrashed united hope that clears things up You mention 'reduced public transport' over Christmas in 'them days' Lucky for us these days that public transport is so good over the Xmas period - obviously no need for derbies over Xmas anymore!! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
leazes.ender Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 While the 1985 version was very memorable for the hat-trick and double sending off i think that the song dates back a few more years to 1980 when we also beat them 3-1 on NYD. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfella Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 I think you're right, had forgotten that one Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 It's never made sense to me which is why I've never sung it - why should we fight because of New Year's day when he hammered the bastards twice? It's a mackem song ill-advisedly stolen imo. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest WashyGeordie Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 It's never made sense to me which is why I've never sung it - why should we fight because of New Year's day when he hammered the bastards twice? It's a mackem song ill-advisedly stolen imo. Didn't toon fans go into the Roker end then though? etc. Plus it was the days of hooliganism, so I don't see how we wouldn't fight. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 It's never made sense to me which is why I've never sung it - why should we fight because of New Year's day when he hammered the bastards twice? It's a mackem song ill-advisedly stolen imo. Didn't toon fans go into the Roker end then though? etc. Plus it was the days of hooliganism, so I don't see how we wouldn't fight. The NYD games were both at home. Its the emphasis on "fight because of NYD" that makes it bollocks. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest toonlass Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 It's never made sense to me which is why I've never sung it - why should we fight because of New Year's day when he hammered the bastards twice? It's a mackem song ill-advisedly stolen imo. Didn't toon fans go into the Roker end then though? etc. Plus it was the days of hooliganism, so I don't see how we wouldn't fight. The NYD games were both at home. Its the emphasis on "fight because of NYD" that makes it bollocks. OMG a chant that isn't factually correct. Whatever next? Someone will be saying that we are not the loyalest football supporters the world has ever had next! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS Posted December 29, 2009 Share Posted December 29, 2009 OMG a chant that isn't factually correct. Whatever next? Someone will be saying that we are not the loyalest football supporters the world has ever had next! I just find that one a bit bad because imo I think it's obviously a Mackem one - they started singing it after we had hammered them (in 1980) so it makes sense from there pov - I think singing it is nearly as bad as if we had a version of Wise Men Say. I think there are better anti-mackem songs - my favourite is the one to the tune of "those were the days" as I think you can get a lot of venom into the word "hate". Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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