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[Manley Farrington-Brown]

20 hours ago, Spudulike said:

I don't recall any other fans doing WYS but they probably did.

 

19 hours ago, kushiro said:

I've heard Villa and Walsall fans sing WYS on old 70s videos. Not sure if they did the hand waving too.

I may be misremembering and talking bollocks but I think I remember an Everton fan once saying they used to sing it?

I've always believed the wavy hands were our very own, but that's probably wrong too!

[Spudulike]

7 minutes ago, Manley Farrington-Brown said:

 

I may be misremembering and talking bollocks but I think I remember an Everton fan once saying they used to sing it?

I've always believed the wavy hands were our very own, but that's probably wrong too!

Just found a thread on an Everton forum about their songs. WYS is only mentioned by one poster as a tune they sung during a cup run in the 60's but no mention of jazz hands. They even sang YNWA back then as did all clubs. 

 

Seems that we are the only club that has stuck with it and carried it on (eventhough it morphed into some weird 100mph version in latter years). Hoping now that it's played before kick off has really established it as ours although it needs one more 'the whole world smiles with yoouuuu' before fade so we can do the jazz hands. 

[kushiro]

13 hours ago, Manley Farrington-Brown said:

 

I may be misremembering and talking bollocks but I think I remember an Everton fan once saying they used to sing it?

I've always believed the wavy hands were our very own, but that's probably wrong too!

That's interesting. I heard it being sung on a video of Everton v Walsall from 1972 (the game that brought Mark Wallington into the public eye). I assumed it was Walsall fans because it seemed to be a Midlands thing (us, Villa) - but maybe it was the home fans.

 

You can hear it here. Very brief and very faint but unmistakably WYS:

 

 

It sounds more like a scouse accent than brum too.

[Supergray22]

Yes. Soumare did well to win that back and set that up. Great leap by Vardy