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Mercury Opinion: Oi! City! Change the tune

By davieG, in Leicester City Forum

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davieG

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Not long now, then. Just 10 days. Ten days until Leicester City kick a ball in the top flight for the first time in a decade.

The last time that happened was a little before 5pm, on May 15, 2004. Nikos Dabizas took a free kick at Highbury. Frank Sinclair had a throw-in. Thierry Henry made a clearance. No-one was really all that bothered. All eyes were on referee Paul Durkin, waiting for him to blow his whistle.

As Arsene Wenger’s Arsenal were crowned the Invincibles, City shuffled off into football’s equivalent of those bins you get by the toilet on holiday in Greece.

But that’s all behind us now. At 3pm, on Saturday, August 16, we’ll be back. Later that evening, kids across Leicestershire will see something they have no living memory of: City on Match of the Day. Ooh-yor.

Amid the tingly expectation of it all, can we just make a teeny, ever-so-slightly sour observation?

The first top-flight visitors of the new season to the King Power are Everton. Imagine. All those Scousers, crammed into the away end. And before the game, City will do as they do, and blare out Hey Jude.

Our toes are curling slightly at the very thought of it.

Don’t get us wrong, it’s a great tune. We yield to no-one in our love of The Beatles, and there are few social situations, aside from funerals, that can’t be improved by everyone na-na-na-naaarring in unison, but Hey Jude has precisely naff all to do with Leicester.

Playing it at the King Power is on a par with all those no-mark clubs that play a burst of Chelsea Dagger when they score. Yeah, we’re looking at you, Nottingham Forest.

Goal music, while we’re on the subject, is one of the myriad curses of modern football. But if we have to have it, and it seems we do, at least City had the canniness to go with a Kasabian track.

So. Let whoever it is at Leicester City with the lightest pre-season workload be charged with having a rethink on the pre-match tune. Let’s have something properly Leicester.

Our vote, not that there’s a ballot box in sight, goes to a rib-rattling blast of Club Foot.

And yes, before you write in, we are aware there are far, far more important things going on in the world.

Normal service in this slot will be resumed tomorrow. Possibly.

• Have your say in our poll, over there, somewhere, on the right. Y'know, if you want.



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Everyone get on and vote, maybe, just maybe, I mean there is an ever so slight chance that someone at the club will listen, probably not, but it can't harm.

davieG

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That's hell of a thread title.

I'm entitled to use it.

Kitchandro

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The club can't be arsed to change such things, and too many of our fans perceive it whiny to stand against these sort of things. 'People have always got to find something to complain about' they say. So don't expect it to change any time soon.

If we're changing the song before kick off, it should be to When You're Smiling. It's probably more likely to change to Sam Bailey than Kasabian.

 

Which brings me to another point - like Sam Bailey, what exactly do Kasabian songs have to do with our actual club? Sure they are fans; they're good blokes, and I think they're a great band. But we have OUR song, and it sickens me we don't use it more often. Proper club anthems should be played pre-kick off. None of'Club Foot', 'LSF' or 'Hey Jude' are our club anthems.

 

I don't care even if the song is relevant to our City, goal music is a shambles and shouldn't be anywhere near English football.

 

Oh and I forgot about the Poznan. Slight danger we're going to be a laughing stock if we don't sort ourselves out here. Me thinks we've developed some small-time habits since we left the top flight last.

lcfcsnow

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Oh and I forgot about the Poznan. Slight danger we're going to be a laughing stock if we don't sort ourselves out here. Me thinks we've developed some small-time habits since we left the top flight last.

 

I had too until you mentioned it, it would help if that bellend Jobber stopped encouraging it every single time.

bluesbrothers

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I would have voted for When You're Smiling, but they'd only play that godawful Jersey Budd version. LSF should be the song. The Summer Solstice pretty much cemented its place in the city's folklore - hearing thousands of us walking home down London Road chanting it was awesome, and very much "les-tah".

Voll Blau

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Good on whoever wrote this. We are genuinely going to look like the biggest bunch of no marks going when this gets an airing against the likes of Chelsea/Man United/Liverpool etc. Sung with zero passion and a completely pointless endeavour. Nowt against the song being in our repertoire but the club naively deciding it was "our song" in the first place was utterly stupid. Were the fans even consulted on its introduction?

Kitchandro

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I would have voted for When You're Smiling, but they'd only play that godawful Jersey Budd version. LSF should be the song. The Summer Solstice pretty much cemented its place in the city's folklore - hearing thousands of us walking home down London Road chanting it was awesome, and very much "les-tah".

 

Well no, the good version of WYS should be the song.

 

What it should be and what it will be are obviously very different things.

Finchy

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NEEDS to happen. 

 

Let's face it, we basically have the blue version of St Mary's stadium now we've taken away everything that previously gave it character and replaced it with King Power logos. Getting an atmosphere going with a unique song before kick off will atleast give the away fans something interesting to take away from a trip to Leicester. 

 

A proper version of When You're Smiling gets my vote, but would be delighted if we started playing L.S.F, anyone who's seen Kasabian live knows this has potential to turn into a terrace anthem. 

Voll Blau

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Personally would hate to see any  recorded version of WYS played. If you want to cue people into it get Birch (or whoever) to sing the first three words and the rest of the ground to follow.

Voll Blau

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While we're at it can we get rid of that god forsaken camp version of the Post horn gallop as the team comes out for the second half?  :frusty:

 

I agree. Bring back the old recorded version.

Corky

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Yes, get rid of it. And Kasabian too. Nothing against them (it's far preferable than the Chelsea Dagger shite we served up up for too long), but we really don't need goal music. It adds absolutely nothing.

David Lowe

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The music I can put up with but please stop the Poznan everybody. The only English team this is linked to is Man City - everybody else  just looks to be copying.

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