Championship 2024-25

Luton Town, Luton Town is it true what people say, you're going down. ohhhhhh Luton Town....

 

Really need those useless fux Derby to start winning.

 

Can any of the older people remember the chant Eric Morecambe ain't funny, he's ****.
What are we hoping for
See Luton in Division 4.
For the love of me can't remember all the words. Help would be welcome.

 

What are we going to
See Watford in Division Two

Plus ca change

 

Dead End Street by The Kinks - archetypal London area footy songs their speciality

 

We all know what is going to happen. Luton win at our place and those 3 points will make the difference between relegation and staying in the champ. We all know it. Let’s just get it over and done with.

 

See line below!

 

Time for ‘Excerpt From A Teenage Opera’ or a Petula Clark classic maybe?

 

That’s the one I was suggesting, Clive!
Along with ‘Down Town’ by Petula Clark.

 

Whole chant was:
‘There’s a crack upon the ceiling
And the Oak Road roof is leaking.
Out of work & got no money
Eric Morecambe isn’t funny.
What are we living for?
To see Luton in Division 4!
What are we gonna do?
Take the Hornets to Division 2!’

 

How dare you

 

Everything’s great when you’re Down Town!

 

The first football song I ever heard. I only realised where it came from when I retrospectively got into the Kinks some years later.

 

Wow. What a memory!

 

Thanks for clearing the mists of time. Sounds comfortably familiar except for the Eric Morecambe bit, which I failed to decipher and no doubt covered up by mumbling some half-adjacent wording. I was barely out of short trousers yet doing sterling work defending the Rookery, to be fair.

 

Based on Excerpt from a Teenage Opera, aka Grocer Jack, by Keith West.
Why were chants so much better back then? (Treat as rhetorical…)

 

I always liked the 'Tulips From Amsterdam ' version.

 

1-2-3-4-5
If you wanna stay alive
Stay off the Rookery!
??

 

And the modification of the old ‘Nick-nack’ song when the oppo team ran out:
‘Nick nack paddy-whack
Give the dog a bone
Why don’t you lot
Fark off home’

 

I have been blessed-cursed with a memory that people have called ‘elephantine’ which is great for remembering certain things, but brings with it the horror of recalling the Kirby and Keen relegation seasons.

 

It seems like Tom Dele Bashirus alter ego has signed for QPR and scored on his debut

 

Tom Bashiru-Dele is prolific.

 

We're going to be 17th within the next month or so.

 

You could say Chair was comfortable all night! Or maybe so-fa better than the rest of his teammates.
[I'm here all week.]

 

Or perhaps that he really fractured Derby's skull with a rock!

 

Things must be seriously bad at Blackburn for him to see Derby as a better opportunity.

How long have the fans wanted Venky's out? Seems yonks ago that we saw a chicken on the pitch.

 

“Careful what you wish for”

 

Any truth that we bid for the chicken in January?

 

As I understand it, his family live in Derby and he has been travelling to Blackburn on a daily basis. Not much fun that!
If Derby are offering him the same, or more in wages then I do understand him accepting the challenge.

 

105 miles, 2 hours up the M6 each way, or a 5 minute stroll through the park, no contest really!

 

Whisper it quietly, but I think our ‘Championship’ defensive record might be about to go…