Saturday cheer-upper!

Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Posted in Chants and Atmosphere | 2 Comments »

A really awesome group known as Improv Everywhere (We Cause Scenes is their motto), threw a rocking good time for a bunch of little league baseballers. The premise being it would be the tykes' Best Game Ever. Anyone know of ...

Streamers and such

Friday, June 6th, 2008 Posted in Chants and Atmosphere | 4 Comments »

Goff quotes MLS: "MLS teams will communicate to their supporter groups MLS's existing policy - that streamers are not to be used to impact on-field competition or thrown toward a player, referee or stadium staff member. While the spontaneous use of ...

Chants of the Season

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008 Posted in Chants and Atmosphere | 1 Comment »

Courtesy of the BBC for gathering these.  Some of these are just fantastic. Bishop Stortford (Toni Basil's Hey Mickey - sung to St Albans goalkeeper Nick Eyre): "Hey Nicky you're so fine, you're so fine, you're two behind, hey Nicky!" Arsenal (The Jackson ...

Challenge #5: Let’s get our songs/chants together!

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 Posted in Challenges, Chants and Atmosphere | 9 Comments »

Hey, it's time to finalize our "playlist" for Saturday's game. We're going to be passing out songbooks that have a lot of the FCD songs (and some of the new ones that you've written) at the game, but ...

Come and get it, [Inferior Team Name Here]

Monday, October 15th, 2007 Posted in Chants and Atmosphere | 6 Comments »

Los Toros are in 126 for the playoffs. That means there's only 5 tiny little sections between us and the bedraggled supporters of our first round opponents. Shall we sing you a song, Dynamo (or Chivas USA) fans?

Challenge #2: We need more atmosphere

Thursday, October 11th, 2007 Posted in Challenges, Chants and Atmosphere | 5 Comments »

Ok, ok, not something that will be solved by a blog post. So many things go into what makes a good atmosphere at a soccer match -- stadium, attendance, songs/chants, inebriation levels, etc. But mainly what I'm looking ...

Legends Crew Songs

Wednesday, October 10th, 2007 Posted in Chants and Atmosphere | 2 Comments »

Another new group, the Legends Crew, has posted some very original songs dedicated to individual Hoops players. I'm personally partial to this one (but only given my login name): STEVIE MORROW (To the ...