Football and music

 It's coming home...it's coming home...it's coming! The words that no one might elude this summer as each news outlet appeared to connect in on England's World Glass accomplishment. What was too common was articles clarifying fair why football fans were saying these three words. In 1996 The Lightning Seeds and comedians Straight to the point Skinner and David Baddiel joined together to goad their country on in Euro '96. Football was returning to its put of birth - Britain. For us at The Football History Boys - what we truly need to discover out is the relationship between the wonderful amusement and music. It is evident that it is no advanced wonders and it has its beginnings at the exceptionally begin of football's exceptional history.

Walk into any football stadium and you'll hear a number of things. Abuse at the match officials, someone scoffing down a half-time pie and of course songs. Songs and chants are a must for any decent atmosphere and bring with them more than just a nice melody. Music on the terraces is about identity. Each song has its own unique allegiance to one side or another and looking deeper into them will prove this point.

It is the same now as it has been for the last 100 years. A quick trawl through the British Newspaper Archives highlights this very aspect. In 1894 we can see a newspaper article in the Bath Chronicle writing about songs sung by fans at the Brighton Society,

The melody over is confirmation to the immovable ubiquity the don saw in its earliest stages. This drift would proceed all through the coming about decades and into World War II. In truth, all through the files, football melodies are regularly composed by fans and sent into the daily papers - open to the feedback of supporters and writers alike.