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FOOTBALL CHANTS
Koreans chant in English, Cameroonians adapt an ancient folk song... Listen below to our Football Chants collected across Manchester, and add your own.
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Origin of chant
1 Ireland
2 Nigeria
3 South Korea
4 France
5 England
6 China
7 Cameroon
8 Argentina
9 Spain
10 Italy
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Contributor
MARTIN CONWAY
EKAEKA ITUEM
SANG-YOUNG
BENEDICTE ROUBERT
PAUL MCHUGH
DAVID CHOW
RAYMOND ABANDA
CECILIA HERMIDA
PRO CANDAL
PAULO SILVESTRI
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Song: Fields of Athenry
Country: Ireland
Chosen by: Martin Conway
 听听Listen to an interview with Martin Conway and hear the chant.
.../continued. Go to part 1 |2
Football is a communal thing, that's why we're all here in the Irish Centre watching the World Cup. After all, we've all got tellies and we could easily sit at home in our houses but it's far more enjoyable to come together to experience it here. It's about something shared.
When Ireland take the field in something like the World Cup - and I guess the same applies to countries like Cameroon and other small African nations - it's about having arrived on the world stage. It's equally important for us Irish fans to be on time for the National Anthem at the beginning because that really signals our international success. Our Irish team has actually been one of the thirty two countries selected for the World Cup Finals - that's a thrill.
By a lonely prison wall I heard a sweet voice calling, 'Danny, they have taken you away. For you stole Trevellyan's corn, That your babes might see the morn, Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay.'
Low lie the fields of Athenry where once we watched the small freebirds fly.
Our love grew with the spring, We had dreams and songs to sing as we wandered through the fields of Athenry.
By a lonely prison wall I heard a young man calling 'Nothing matters, Jenny, when you're free. Against the famine and the crown, I rebelled, they ran me down, Now you must raise our children without me.'
The official Irish World Cup song is 'Here Comes the Good Times' sung by Christy Dignam of Aslan and Nicky Byrne of Westlife together with the Irish Team. (Warner Music, Ireland, 2002).
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