Wolves 0 Norwich 1
Yep, Wiki's correct (for once)-OTBC written in the 1890's, initially for the Norwich Teachers side, and sung for Norwich sides ever since, and up to the present day. Its constant use should ensure it remains the oldest chant in use at football (or even one of the oldest in world sport) matches, though am sure that the liberal minded at the Telegraph and elsewhere would prefer the connection between Elgar and those lovely "matchstalk man and matchstalk men and dogs" (OK, I know, Lowry isn't about Wolves, but hey!) and the social connotations with the flat capped industrial Midlands to be the source of the oldest song, rather than that place in Norfolk!
Posted By: Martin Peters on September 27th 2010 at 10:15:04
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- "World's first football chant" (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Sep 27, 08:27:53
- Own up, who posted the comment as Selwyn1 on that then? Certainly not the man himself. (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, Sep 27, 10:33:18
- Not me. I reckon it was you. (n/m) (NCFC) - Tricky Hawes, Sep 27, 10:53:05
- Surely He Reads The Telegraph? :-) (n/m) (NCFC) - Martin Peters, Sep 27, 10:47:10
- Wolves 0 Norwich 1 (NCFC) - Martin Peters, Sep 27, 10:15:04
- correction, people in the west mids DONT wear flat caps...... (NCFC) - Cheltenham_Canary, Sep 27, 13:10:37
- Own up, who posted the comment as Selwyn1 on that then? Certainly not the man himself. (n/m) (NCFC) - megson, Sep 27, 10:33:18
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