It looks like the 1894 group at Manchester City’s are hoping fans will re-adopt the 1930s classic song Who Said City Couldn’t Play? It’s City’s earliest recorded chant (there were earlier ones but this is the first we’ve found sound/film recordings of). Here’s a sound recording from the 1930s:
The tune used is the bit from Knees Up Mother Brown that goes: “Oh my, what a rotten song,
What a rotten song,
What a rotten song,
Oh my, what a rotten song,
And what a rotten singer too-oo-oo!”
If anyone at City wants to get the music played then dig out an instrumental version of that section of the song and get it played prematch. Just like the Viking chant it would be great to get it used in club material.
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