Help Please??

[Bhoysown]

I am also a member of a football forum that is mainly English.
In one of the threads in there, I queried Everton fans singing "Its a grand old team" at their cup game against Man u - I got the reply that we had pinched it from them & that they had originally sung it at the 1933 FA cup final, I find hard to believe that we pinched this, but my own personal recollections only go back to the early 1960s (when I first heard it as a kid). I have tried to find out the history of the song - so far without success. Can anyone shed any light on the matter - I would hate to have the Everton fans think that we had taken anything of theirs.

[HH]

Originally Posted by Bhoysown

I am also a member of a football forum that is mainly English.
In one of the threads in there, I queried Everton fans singing "Its a grand old team" at their cup game against Man u - I got the reply that we had pinched it from them & that they had originally sung it at the 1933 FA cup final, I find hard to believe that we pinched this, but my own personal recollections only go back to the early 1960s (when I first heard it as a kid). I have tried to find out the history of the song - so far without success. Can anyone shed any light on the matter - I would hate to have the Everton fans think that we had taken anything of theirs.

Dunno mate but I hear a few English clubs claiming to have started the huddle and singing the fields of athenry with alternative lyrics. Pure pish.

[Dubsbhoy]

fuck the lot of them, it's not called the "celtic song" for nothing.

[Davycelt]

Found this on net - sems to say that song is traditional tune with oor own words so maybe the toffees have got their own version - trying to find out who Liam Mallory was and when he wrote our version.

[Davycelt]

http://www.ntvcelticfanzine.com/hist...n%2045%201.htm

check this out

[Davycelt]

Found this in an everton forum

Grand Old Team

For it's a grand old team to play for,
For it's a grand old team to support,
And if you know the history,
It's enough to make your heart go Wooooooooooaaarrr!
We don't care what the red shites say,
What the **** do we care,
For we all know that there is going be a show and the EVERTON boys will be there,
EVERTON! EVERTON! EVERTON!

[holmes]

"It's enough to make your heart go Wooooooooooaaarrr! "

did archie macpherson compose that part??

[Yorkshire Tim]

this is all crap.

since the 'you'll never walk alone.' english people think we copy everyone, liverpool copied 'fields of athenry'-'fields of anfield road' off us though!