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And Leicester?

tom_k
tom_k Posts: 1,207
edited August 2009 in General Charlton
Does anyone know why the chant " we all follow the Charlton, over land and sea and Leicester!" came about?

Seems a few clubs have the " and Leicester!" line added, my mate and I are having a discussion on who started this and why.

Anyone know?

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  • RodneyCharltonTrotta
    RodneyCharltonTrotta Posts: 14,862
    Chelsea started it i think.
  • Nelsenout
    Nelsenout Posts: 661
    I believe it comes from the M1 Motorway Sign 'The North and Leicester.'
  • randy andy
    randy andy Posts: 5,463
    [cite]Posted By: Nelsenout[/cite]I believe it comes from the M1 Motorway Sign 'The North and Leicester.'

    Yep, I believe so, plus when heading south from oop north I think it even says "The South and Leicester"
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,865
    It's a rewrite, to the same tune of "We hate Nottingham Forest, we hate Liverpool too AND LEICESTER! We hate Man United but Charlton (or whoever is singing it)we love you"

    That one goes back to the late sixties I think, and every team used to sing it (apart from probably Forest, Leicester, Man U and Liverpool obviously).... Can't remember when the new lyrics were added, seem to remember this being sung in the 80-81 season, although that was the first season I went to a lot of away games so I might have that wrong. We had a lot more songs in those days, we'd struggle to fill an EP nowadays (hands up who doesn't know what an EP is)

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