Why do Brits sing for their fighters?

[JAB5239]

Are they the only nation that actually sings for their own and when did that tradition start? I think thats so cool!!

So do I. It just creates an electric atmosphere.

[McGrain]

We sing for everything, really. Any sport at all.

[mehoe]

I do give them massive credit for coming up with songs on the fly. I remember watching a match between England and Germany for a World Cup qualifier or Euro ( I can't remember which one) and England was down a goal and the Germans where celebrating. Well then all of a sudden you start to hear a chant of "If you won the war stand up". A whole section would rise then sit (kind of like the wave). The next section would sing "If you on the war stand up" and so on till it got to the German fans and well it shut them up pretty fast.

[Weebler I]

in edmonton our hockey fans are some of the loudest out there. every game is sold out even when we have bad years but when we are in the playoffs the atmosphere in my city is crazy!!!!! that can be said at concerts too, many top acts have said they really enjoyed the atmosphere of the fans here...now if only the fans who don't pay to go to the games would stop complaining ....i don't like soccer but would go to a game in england if i was there...

do the fans sing at Bute fights then?

[Cloud]

I've said for many years now that we British are the greatest sports fans in the world and of all time.

American's aren't bad but all they do is chant ''USA'' which is boring. We sing like bosses.

If I could recommend fights in which the atmosphere was immense, I'd recommend the Benn-Eubank clashes, Benn-McClellan and Froch-Bute.

The crowds in London went pretty damn wild when Frank Bruno finally won the world heavyweight championship.

[IronDanHamza]

We sing for everything, really. Any sport at all.

I've been loving the "There's only oneeeeeeeee Andy Murray" chants during Wimbledon.

[taansend]

We sing for everything, really. Any sport at all.

^^^ This ^^^

I've been in many a pub when a song has broken out for no apparent reason. Or when a fat bloke walks in & the famous "Who ate all the pies starts up". Dunno if they still do that now that Britain is catching up with the US in obesity but back in the 80's & 90's we'd all do it.

I remember being in a pub down Penge way in about 85. I was about 17 & they had a Sunday afternoon lock in (pubs were open noon til 3pm then 7pm till 10.30pm on Sundays back then). There were two tables full of blokes playing poker - a bigger stakes table & a cheap table. Fellas would go from one to the other depending on their fortunes. Suddenly the bigger table started singing "I've got a bigger one than yours" (to the tune of 'She'll be coming round the mountain'), the other table responding with 'She'll be coming like a fountain when she comes' then some other lads at the bar went off on another tangent. All completely pointless but a right laugh at the time.

[dan_cov]

I imagine the atmosphere at the Kell Brook fight tonight will be electric!
Nice to see Kell getting the support he is, hes a talented kid.

[Boxing Bob]

While I think British fans are some of the best out there and the singing is an extension of that, I've never heard them cheer anyone not British, makes me wonder if they are really boxing fans or if all the support is just nationalistic pride. Maybe I'm biased because after all these years, I'm still pissed about the way Marvin Hagler was treated after he butchered Alan Minter.

[Ray Corso]

.........cause they can't dance.......?????..:: HA!