It's quite good ..
Do you think the OT crowd will adopt this next season?
Do you think the OT crowd will adopt this next season?
Icelandic Thunderclap
- Thread starter Honest John
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No they shouldn't... However, the chant is not that original at all. My Swedish team has done the exact same thing for years but with the letters D-I-F which starts slowly and then goes quicker towards the end. Don't know if it exists elsewhere or if Iceland copied our chant. U-NI-TED would work but still kinda cringy to copy it straight after the Euros.
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It's brilliant.
But I hope we leave it alone and let the Iceland fans have it to themselves.
But I hope we leave it alone and let the Iceland fans have it to themselves.
Motherwell did this first apparently
Nah, its not even theirs anyway they nicked it from Motherwell:
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...redible-viking-war-chant-motherwell-1.2702816
http://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soc...redible-viking-war-chant-motherwell-1.2702816
They started doing it at the Cricket yesterday so you can bet your bottom dollar everyone in the Premier League will be doing it next year, that and the Will Grigg chant. Some things are better left alone IMO.
Beat me too it
The chant has existed long before 2014 but in various forms.
I think you'll find they all stole it from the end of the film cool runnings
My local A-league the Western Sydney Wanderers do it aswell, except the say West when they clap. Being a club founded in 2012 we basically copied a few things from other teams that the guys who run our active support liked so there must be a few clubs that do it.
Yep, probably a pretty common chant among smaller clubs. Definitely not founded in 2014 by Motherwell. My team has done it since at least 2012, but I doubt we came up with it.
Hate clubs adopting these things as a fad. Citeh fans doing the Poznan was always cringey as feck.
The Icelandic campaign has been great, genuine passion from the fans and players which inspires each other. Can't quite see many of our visitors to OT showing that same passion so I can imagine this would look and sound awful if we tried to copy them.
The Icelandic campaign has been great, genuine passion from the fans and players which inspires each other. Can't quite see many of our visitors to OT showing that same passion so I can imagine this would look and sound awful if we tried to copy them.
Sure beats Ibizan thunderclap.
There's something very intimidating and aggressive about it, the sort of thing I could picture a neo-Nazi group doing.
I reckon the chant woke up some latent trauma inherited through generations for the English players. That sound used to mean people that were up to no good was coming ashore.
The original chant involves swords being hammered against shields, but for practical purposes I can see that this is hard to pull off.
The original chant involves swords being hammered against shields, but for practical purposes I can see that this is hard to pull off.
Republic of Ireland fans have been doing this for years
My mate got Thunderclap. Not pleasant.
Our timing was terrible at the Euros though to be fair
Was brilliant when I was in Lille. We took over a roundabout in the centre of town and some fella with a drum was half way up a statue starting them.
Anyone noticed the hungarians this tournament? They had some really weird noises going on in their crowd. Here's a takeover in Marseille.
That be the drink
By the Tir Na Nog I'd say dude, if it was day of Italy game. Epic day.
It was the day of the Italy game yeah, but I'm not entirely sure where it was! We hung around the Gare de Flandres for a bit where it was absolutely heaving, then wandered over to the other side of town where there was hundreds of Irish fans on a roundabout, booting a football about and chanting. Was an amazing atmosphere!
Ya Flanders was the metro stop, then a 15 minute walk to the roundabout by Tir Na Nog where all the Irish were. It was unreal craic all the same.
The whole town was full with Irish, it was class. What was great was the Italians getting involved with the thunderclaps and booting the footballs, too.
my home team back in Iceland started to do this in Iceland 2 years ago. Much better version than from the Iceland national supporters!
Ya it seemed it when on way to the stadium, we were down by the roundabout early enough so missed a lot of the stuff around the water fountain. Balls kicked everywhere, tour bus jumped on, Dermot and Daves van also jumped on - sun stroke all round. Pre game we needed no booze to be up for it!!
Didn't chat to or see too many Italians I must admit. Belgians were great craic altogether though - well up for it. Swedes were also very nice, but a bit more reserved in their nature.
But ya, the thunderclap we did was decent enough at the Italian game, but Icelands is like military precision.
I must have walked half of Lille that day looking for a cold cider! The heat was unreal!
Motherwell fans robbed it from Odin
I love the clapping. It sorta reminds me of the war-chant that black (no rasism!) rugby-team from down-under. Googlet it. Haka - New Zealand.
It looks ridiculous, I find it funny, yet somehow it still gives me chills.
It looks ridiculous, I find it funny, yet somehow it still gives me chills.
Cider was a bloody disaster in France, bar the Irish pubs were it was usually €7 a pint. Found it in offys alright, 75cl for €2.58. Result! Not cold though as it was on the self with the wines. Actually drink and food was a balls in Lille, especially after the feckin game.
The only thing I wish we would adopt is chanting the player's surname when he scores. That is the only continental thing I envy. The Icelandic clap is cool as feck but it's not cool to be swiping things from other clubs.
Does anyone know the chant the Belgians had? We were outside a pub in Bordeaux with loads of them and the chant was going on for about half an hour. Was epic! They looked great at the other side of the stadium when they beat Ireland too.
Yeah, was a big downer getting back to the city after the Italy game and everywhere was closed. We should have went the offo before the game and stashed our cans! Outside Tir Na Nog was some craic the night before though.
And I thought this was a thread about a new superbug.
We travelled up to Lille from Amiens very early the day of the game, so ya we weren't one of the smart groups who bought shite for after the game! were ye on the metros to the stadium that the carriage was effectively bouncing up and down on the tracks? Some buzz on it!!!!
We were running a bit late and there was a huge queue to even get to the ticket machine so we had to bail and get a taxi instead. I was also close to death with a hangover so I couldn't handle the heat with all the people around me in the station
. Thankfully it died down when I got to the game. Don't think I'll ever top a live game like that again!On that note, your team has stolen a lot of chants from my team but that's hardly surprising given that it's been the only team doing chants for years.
Which one?? And from KR?