Over rated player anyway who is still chanted for years later. Lots of similar quality players have long since been forgotten. The chant has more to do with the Liverpool connection.
Park Ji-Sung asks United fans to stop singing his chant
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Scouse come to town in 3 weeks , there is zero chance it won’t be sang
Catchy as it was, the song was basically saying "your country does something we don't like but it's not as bad as being from Liverpool".
You lot love him and I trust you'll come up with something he can be proud of. What rhymes with "three lungs"?
You lot love him and I trust you'll come up with something he can be proud of. What rhymes with "three lungs"?
I have to say Ive sung this many times and in fact Id put in the Top5 best chants I can remember because its actually very clever
Ive never felt it was racist (there are a few others chants over the years which I have not felt comfortable to sing), people in South Korea do have a history of eating dogs which TBF they are trying to move away from
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/south-korean-president-suggests-ban-on-eating-dog-meat
But I guess times change and since Park himself asks I will not sing it anymore
Ive never felt it was racist (there are a few others chants over the years which I have not felt comfortable to sing), people in South Korea do have a history of eating dogs which TBF they are trying to move away from
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/27/south-korean-president-suggests-ban-on-eating-dog-meat
But I guess times change and since Park himself asks I will not sing it anymore
Should probably do as he says lest he murders us.
Wait, what's clever about it?
Pretty sure there's malice in us singing chants towards Scousers about murdering people/their own and them, City, Leeds etc singing Munich stuff.
No but it just shows how highly appreciated he was by teammates. During lockdown last year I re watched a lot of our games from 2006-2009 and Park was one of our stand out players. He was better than I even remembered. He always turned up in big games.So if I’m right you’re saying Park was as good as Ronaldo
I'm sure Pirlo still has nightmares over him. Park played him off the pitch in both legs.
If the concerned player doesn't like the chant so why is it still a question for some ?
I’m sure he barely remembers him. He worked hard but lacked quality. Why post something from Rooney saying something absolutely ridiculous? Rooney has a massive ego in any case.
Pfffft. Are there still people who don't rate his contribution? Guaranteed that number will include neither his boss nor any of his teammates.
In a few lines this song:
- acknowledges the heritage of our first ever major Asian player (Dong need not apply)
- comments on general opposition to the tradition of eating dogs in some countries
- slags off our mortal enemies
Works on multiple levels, amazing stuff for a few pissed up guys in the pub to come up with - it is only because it is such a great chant that it is still rolled out now and again on matchdays
You could say the same about John O’Shea
Some chants that might just be ribbing from those who sing them can also be pretty malicious, 'always the victims' at Liverpool, Adam Johnson pedophile song, the Scouser's 'Howard Webb, hes a red, he sleeps in Fergie bed' etc...
Then there are the truly unfunny ones that make fun of a person physical apperance like Shelvey's Lord Voldemort song, 'Suarez/Zlatan/Oezil, your teeth/nose/eye are offside'
Why am I not surprised there are people saying 'well ackchyually they do eat dogs so it's not racist'..
You’re going to have to help me out with this, my guy.
Park wants you to stop singing his chant because it’s offensive.
You think he’s overrated. Ok.
What’s the connection?
It’s a Park thread. There’s better players than him we don’t still sing about and the fact we do is more about the reference to Liverpool. It’s not an issue for us to stop singing about him if he wants us to stop.
Love Park. He used to torment Arsenal.
For a bit of context the ‘tradition’ if you can call it that involves beating the dogs whilst still alive to tenderise the meat. Almost all Koreans are against this for obvious reasons, it’s animal cruelty.
So it’s more akin to saying all Spanish people terrorise and butcher bulls for sport, or all British people do that to Foxes for a bit if fun on a Sunday afternoon - than it is to say all Spanish eat chorizo or all Brits drink tea or whatever.
Nobody likes to be generalised for a certain behaviour, especially when they’ve never done it themselves and are strongly morally against it.
Is it really that hard for people to see why they’d be offended by that?
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Japan will suffice. Pity we didn't do one for Kagawa huh.
Dog eating is confined to some parts of that region but it is slowly but surely dying off. An overwhelming majority of young people don't want to be associated with it, hence the request from Park.
so Park is known to eat dog meat is he?
It's a catchy wee song but racist. I am sure Park does not eat dog in South Korea and I imagine only the poorest people there eat dog.
The level this man hold his class is just absurd. Good on you 3 lungs
Change it to shat on Pirlo in Italy.
And there goes a bit more of my faith in humanity, could have did without ever knowing about that. Brutal.
I wish our fans were as imaginative as the lads behind Chelsea Chelsea Chelsea chant
You eat rice in your home country, but it could be worse, you could be scouse, eating mice in your council house…
It's shit chant anyway, and if it's purpose is to be a tribute to Park and he doesn't like it then there's no point to it. But can you explain why you think it's racist?
Do you eat any animal protein?
There's a lot of things you don't want to know about the meat industry..
Is there a place online where one can do that?
Well, it's clearly rooted in a stereotype about people from a certain part of the world. Maybe racism isn't the exact word but it's definitely derogatory.
To the tune of it’s your thing by the Isley brothers
“Ji Sung Park, do what you wanna do
We won’t sing songs, insulting you”
“Ji Sung Park, do what you wanna do
We won’t sing songs, insulting you”
I would take a prime Ji-Sung on this squad over McFred. If only the latter had half the footballing brain that PJS had...
I'd hope you were perceptive enough to know that a black person using the term is reclaiming it and that use in that context is reducing the power of the racism. And that they don't need a white person's permission to do so.
It should also come as no surprise that Korean people might just find the dog eating thing a tad racist. If a person tells you that something that a stereotype is insulting/racist/unwelcome why wouldn't you take that at face value and comply unless you were a massive cnut?
Well that's ok then
It's a funny chant but how did noone realize it was racist until now? It is so blatantly obvious like saying you're one of the good ones.
Understandable. Everything is offensive nowadays anyway.