The difference between the Americans and the Brits is, Americans really care if they win and have all this pride. In the UK we have a self deprecating humour, where even when we lose we can still take the piss outta ourselves and eachother. That's why it just works, we've got thick skin
I've seen it written somewhere, I forgot where, it goes - If a team sang "I believe that we will win", most british teams would sing "I believe you're talking shit" back.
There was a Scottish goalkeeper whose name was Andy Goram. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia, and decided to go public about it. The chant in the next match he played in was: "There's only 2 Andy Gorams. There's only 2 Andy Gorams!"
The B-B-Q song the American fans were singing is a direct ripoff of 'Vindaloo', which was a song written for England fans to celebrate the 1998 world cup finals in France. Just sayin!
"The Kiddy Family" song was aimed at Kidderminster Harriers, a team from deep rural Worcestershire, one of those places that are often the subject of jokes about 'inbreeding'.
Apologies to the residents of Kidderminster, for describing them as being in 'rural' Worcestershire, but hey? 55,000 population? - it's hardly a bustling metropolis is it?
One of the funniest chants I heard, was watching Manchester City playing away to Sheffield United about 25 years ago, the Sheffield United fans were singing "We hate Wednesday" as their neighbours and most hated rivals are called Sheffield Wednesday, the City fans came straight back with "We hate Saturday" on account that at the time City were awful, heading for relegation, even though we were rubbish we still turned up in our thousands.
@@imgoingtocountdownfromthir4580 sorry but that’s bollox, in the top flight a ‘good crowd’ is filling your stadium, anything less than that isn’t a good crowd and city never used to fill their stadium and still don’t sometimes even as league champions
@@Redeemed2Righteousness you're obviously a Rag or Dipper, coming out with such nonsense and downright lies, City's last season at Maine Road, the capacity was 35,000, average attendance was 34,564, we moved from Maine Road because it was too small, first season at the new stadium capacity was 47,000 average attendance 46,245, we finished 16th and were nearly relegated, not to mention getting nearly 30,000 when we were in the 3rd tier, the boring inaccurate "City have no fans/ Emptyhad" bollocks, is just a myth created by little Rag tossers, that can't handle the fact that they're shite and we're the best club in England.
I love the fact that 🇬🇧 has a sense of humour when it comes to football, for example in Scotland our referees are sponsored by an optical glassware chain specsavers.
That American "Bar B Q" was plagiarised from an England World Cup song "Vindaloo" :) The reason for that Male XXXX was because the travelling Sunderland fans Dutch Manager was Dick Advocaat and they were chanting "Big Dick's Sunderland Army". The breasts comments were to a Male opposition footballer: Andy Carroll , who was slim and wore a Ponytail. That rude African chant was because the player who was mentioned switched to that teams bitter and hated rivals(Ironically the same 2 teams as the very last clip where The Arsenal players were on a victory parade" and the player not only broke that unwritten rule but did what 99% of players do NOT do and wildly celebrated when scoring against his old team and fans. He ran the entire length of the pitch to the old fans, after scoring, just to taunt them. He then got injured hence that song. That team was losing 4/0 Away when they pretended to celebrate a goal. Park was a South Korean footballer who had just scored the last-minute winning goal and that was HIS fans chanting that song. The "Que Sera" chant was mimicking the opposition fans who used to idolize Steve Gerrard for 12 years with other words to Que Sera but unbelievably when they were about to win their first league in a Generation he slipped and a Guy called "Demba Ba" scored the goal that cost them the entire 38 game League Trophy. As for the man individual songs then pictures of the players are required to see what they meant but the spontaneous "Harry Potter" one was because the player warming up looked like Lord Voldemort :)
@@smythharris2635 My main hobby Smyth is replying to questions 2 months after they were asked but the idea of the study of human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of artifacts and other physical remains does have a certain appeal, especially at 4.10am here in London.😀
This is hilarious! We suffer from exactly the same lack of "singing" here in NZ as your fans, it is so frustrating/boring, The Poms absolutely nail it in a completely un -PC way...gotta love their passion, hey if you go to the footy, you SING, and that applies to Rugby too...do yourselves a favour, and get to a game in England. Love your reaction!
The "Luis Suarez - He bites who he likes" chant referred to Uraguayan footballer Luis Suarez who has a history of biting his opponents: While playing at Ajax in Holland in 2010, he was suspended for seven games for biting PSV Eindhoven's Otman Bakkal on the shoulder. Playing for Liverpool in 2013, he was suspended for 10 games for biting Chelsea's Branislov Ivanovic on the arm. While playing for Uruguay in the 2014 World Cup, he bit Italy's Giorgio Chiellini. Despite this particular attack leaving teeth marks on Chiellini's shoulder, Suarez was not punished during the game, hence the "He bites who he likes" taunt.
You two are great on just about any topic. Watched for a while and so great that Debbie has come out of herself as she has a great sense of humour. This was particularly funny as I'm an English football fan and used to be in those crowds
On Atalanta; there's a fairly good Italian team by that name (derived from a heroine in Roman myth iirc) and it's possible the person who put the captions on thought the two team names were spelt the same way but pronounced differently. Backed up a little by the spelling of barbeque in one of the later clips. That's an Italian spelling, I think. I think Debbie actually touched on one of the biggest differences when the, "I believe that we will win" chant came up. No, European fans don't go to support their team because they expect that team to win. We go anyway, and sing songs at the opposition about how they've only scored four against us and they must be terrible because the last team who played us got five. Or seven. It's a religion as much as a sport. And that bunch of foreign mercenaries and overpaid prima-donnas who play for us, well, if one of them does something that we'll remember and celebrate, we'll sing their names in our chants ten or twenty years later - more sometimes, there are still chants about Georgie Best and some of the people singing those songs were not born when he was playing and some probably weren't born when he sadly died still quite young. Probably a better match, though I don't think they get to the level of European fans, would be American College Sports crowds. Some of those crowds are very enthusiastic and loud, though certainly not as spontaneous as European ones.
This was hilarious i had to watch it twice, :) made my week thank you. the one with the balloon of the .. then it getting taken away, the crowd then chanting they want it back had me rolling lol.
10:30 Barbecue: Is taken from England's 1998 World Cup song by Fat Les - Vindaloo. The original says "We're gonna score 1 more than you" but MLS say's 3 more than you, that's very optimistic!! 19:04 That's funny if you know the offside rule and know Mezut Ozil. There was a similar chant Luis Suarez his teeth are offside
In England, football is pretty much life or death. It's 'Us' versus 'you' and we're utterly ruthless in terms of running down opposing fans. The fact that English humour naturally tends to be sarcastic with a hint of self deprecation, tends to make for some superb combinations such as "Let's pretend we scored a goal", "His eyes are offside", "We want our dick back!" and of course, the Addams Family riff (your sister is your mother)💥
One of our brilliant UK football managers, Bill Shankly, said, "Some people believe football is a matter of life and death. I am very disappointed with that attitude. I can assure you it is much, much more important than that."
When my friends and I were in Seattle some of them went to a Sounders game (I went to a Huskies Ducks game as I’m not really a ‘soccer’ fan, but love me some football - and most North American sports) and they saw the fight and win guy there - but he wasn’t chanting anything. Another great reaction as always! Hope you’re both doing well FOOTBALL IS LIFE! Ted Lasso is a great example of British and American collaboration! (Writing especially)
"He bites who he wants" Luis Suarez was one of the best players in the world, and he's bitten 3 different opponents in 3 different games. I don't think any other professional player's ever bitten an opponent.
Well done in making it to the end ladies! You hit the nail on the head, Britain has decades & decades of history in the sport & its intensely tribal here. Very different culturally. 👏👏👏
The “ten men went to bed” one; I watch some other US reaction channels and one, (Amanda Rae), the look on her face when that one was playing made me laugh for a good couple of minutes!
Best thing about the British is some random bloke in the crowd of a stadium gets an idea for a chant and then at that point it's either the entire stadium or most take part in the chanting
Another brilliant reaction, ladies. I loved Natasha's reactions to the chants using questionable words: first a big lol, followed by a a surprised look that seemed to be saying "what am I doing laughing at that?" Don't worry, we'll still love you, because you're both lovely people, and you're still taking time to learn about British culture. The chants come in three types - First, those designed to encourage your own team. These can be great fun as they often result in a volume competition as both sets of fans try to drown out the opposition chants. Second, chants designed to irritate and demoralise the opposition fans, team, or individual players. And third, chants that are opportunistic and spontaneous when something happens that can be turned into a funny chant. It's all great fun, although some fans are so passionate about their team that they resort to settling differences with violence. The big clubs tend to segregate fans, and sometimes go as far as holding the home supporters in the stadium until the away fans have been escorted to their coaches or the railway stations. In the 1970s and 80s, violence was a "normal" feature of football matches, until the police and football clubs worked together to stop it. Now clubs have a zero tolerance to violence and other unacceptable behaviours such as racism. Anyone being prosecuted can also expect to be blacklisted and given a lifetime ban from buying tickets to any games in the country. It's not that difficult for the police to catch offenders, as most supporters are sick of people who do these stupid things at a game, so they are happy to help the police.
Love you guys, thing is with us in the UK 🇬🇧 we're brutal with the chants but you can't take offence at it you just need to come back with better. IT'S tribal and passionate to insult the opposition with creativity and flare, you gotta put the effort in. I don't even watch football but the chanting as an English man is a fundamental part of the game.
Can you hear the difference between the ones conceived in a boardroom to not hurt the sponsor money and the ones from people who has seen a football match.
I was there for that last one. Arsenal had just won the FA Cup so this was after the open top bus parade and the fans were starting chants. Quite tame ones. Up steps Jack Wilshire who starts off this less than diplomatic chant aimed at our North London neighbours. He ended up doing a couple whilst club staff tried to get the microphone off him 😂 He got into a lot of trouble for that and I think he got fined by the club but the fans proper loved him for it.
Here in Britain they do keep the fans separate. And with certain teams that have a past history of violence The supporters I’ll let out at different times. Normally the away team supporters are let out the police escort them to train stations and then the home team Supporters are left out to keep them separate. With a lot of top teams it’s not family friendly. Totally different to rugby. Rugby the action is on the pitch
This gave me a laugh this morning so thank you for reacting to this video, l have seen others react to this but you guys add so much to it with your personalities and sense of humour.💕
As an united supporter more than 20+ years i love park as an player he never messed up 😅 i hated when we got rid of him 😭 he was an great guy and great player for man utd
The Natasha and Debbie Show . Look, i cant make up my mind which one of You is the most attractive !!! . So You are both equally gorgeous in different ways Nat, and thats a fact . So let the status quo remain as it is.. also in my equation, Your shows are the best reaction videos out there.. You gals work well together.. Love to You Both !! Keep up the great video shows .. x x
Thats ok they will get there i love it , we'll all be singing in arabic soon , and if you watch any of the American college teams march out , we could never match that , vive la diferance
Every chant has context to it. U should look up john terry champions league final penalty to understand the viva john terry chant. The park eating dogs one pays homage to man utd favourite in ji sung park who was phenomenal everytime he played for us.
Hey ladies try watching Everton(my team) v crystal palace to stay in premier league, fantastic from hours before the match until hours after. Fans were vocal throughout
Another great reaction ladies. Don't be too embarrassed about how lacking American fans are in this department, our fans take their chants SERIOUSLY lol. Best reaction to chants I seen so far, well done 👏
@@steveyates7044 sorry mate I wasn't aiming that comment at you in a negative way. I'm a big fan of Greek Mythology myself. There's a brilliant book called The Golden Shadow that mainly tell the story of Heracles but also covers other less well-known tales including the Calydonian Boar Hunt which Atalanta takes part in and the foot race where Hippomenes wins her hand in marriage by using three golden apples to distract her. I read it when I was at school.
Hi Guys, Not something I would normally comment on a video (In real life if I knew someone I would. but just wanted to shout out Debbie's latest hairstyle, she looks like the years have dropped off her and when combined with the glasses she looks fabulous.
I luv the voice of the woman in orange! :) And really meowsome and purrfect reaction of both of you! A shy meow from Switzerland. ^^ And Atalanta is in Italy, near Bergamo, I believe. There is a soccer club called Atalanta Bergamo. :)
We are an old Country but each Generation is a Rebirth, we have seen all before, Same shit different year ,sums it up quite well . The people are Dynamic, Despite the politicians.
