Product Description

One ginger Pele, there's only one ginger Pele!As the supporter who came up with that one knows, the devoted football fan is the 12th man - his vocal support can mean the difference between winning and losing. Whether it's giving support to your club or poking fun at other teams, fans, mascots or even innocent St John's Ambulance volunteers, there's nothing like singing along with your fellow fans to get the blood pumping and the 11 men on the pitch fired up.On terraces the length and breadth of Britain, this simple truth has given rise to the art of the football chant. This book contains over 180 of the cleverest, wittiest and most downright hilarious examples of football songs from clubs across the country.As Swiss defender Bernt Haas found out when he joined West Brom and the Baggies started singing, 'Bernt Haas, I've gone and Bernt my Haas,' for sharp wit and funny comebacks, you can't beat a football chant!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #103073 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

Review
'...contains some real gems.' --The Sun

Review
'You just have to laugh at some of the terrace chants compiled...'

About the Author
Chris Parker has been a fan of the football chant ever since he attended a Spurs match aged 8 and heard the songs of the White Hart Lane faithful. A lifelong Tottenham Hotspur supporter, he's followed his team across the length and breadth of England, and has collected football chants for a number of years, hearing them from fellow football fans.

Customer Reviews

One Ginger Review! Five Stars!
What a brilliant idea! This book brings together the best football chants from around the country. In a day and age where going to football has become an increasingly manufactured experience this book showcases the wit and invention of the fans on the terraces. I guarantee you'll have some of the chants going round in your head for days afterwards.

This book along with the equally hilarious 'Modern Football is Rubbish' guarantee a laugh and are excellent stocking fillers that any football fan would be delighted to unwrap on Christmas morning.

Buy it!

Made me laugh out loud
Few books make my laugh out loud in public yet this book has kept me chuckling all the way to (and from) work!

As a big football fan there was no doubt I'd like this book - it's packed full of all those witty chants that capture the thrilling atmosphere of Saturday afternoon on the terraces.

With Christmas not far off, I'm ordering a copy for both my Dad and Brother! I defy any bloke not to be in stiches after reading this.

One Ginger Pele! A must-buy for any football fan!
A great selection of the best and funniest football chants that had me chuckling away from cover to cover. Absolutely my sense of humour and a must-buy for any football fan.