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tettehsrafalution · 11-13-2007, 06:51 PM

Well - hopefully I won't get slaughtered on here... I'm a Liverpool fan through and through. I signed up on here not to wind you lot up, but to see what your fan-site is like and to hear what UTD fans think of various issues (many a time Liverpool fans put on our red-tinted-specs and it's sometimes refreshing to hear a different perspective).

So anyway, I'm going to be on here from time to time, with no intention of making enemies, but only for some good banter and debate.

Quite funny that the first topic I see here is about the YNWA anthem.
I've heard Liverpool fans adopted it after Gerry and the Pacemakers did a cover of it in 1963, and that supposedly UTD and Celtic fans had sang it at once or twice before then.

If that is the case, as it well may be (I hear Mario Lanza sang it for UTD after the munich disaster), it's no skin off my nose. What matters most isn't which set of fans sang it first, but who adopted it as theirs. Many a song has been sang by many fans around the world, but this song resonated enough with Liverpool fans for us to keep singing it over and over again until it is now practically synonymous with our club in footballing circles.
We don't claim we wrote the song, and it doesn't matter who sang it first (even now, many clubs in Holland sing it).

What matters is we've sang it to our team non-stop ever since, and it's now seen as ours by the media and even other teams' fans - Imagine what would happen if some poor idiot in the Stretford end started singing YNWA during a UTD match? I doubt very much that the gentlemen around him would join in and start singing along remembering the time Mario Lanza sang it...

So yeah - Celtic fans may well have sang it before us, and Mario might have sang it for UTD before us, and Frank Sinatra might have had a hit with it in 1945, but today, in footballing circles, most people (at least in England) associate the song with Liverpool because we sing it with passion to our team WHETHER WE'RE WINNING OR LOSING (see Istanbul - we sang that song when we were 3-0 along with chanting we're going to win 4-3). It's that passion for the meaning of the song that means so much to Liverpool fans and players that has made this song ours - NOT who sang it first.

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tettehsrafalution Status: Noob Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 7 Club Team: Liverpool Players: Dalglish, Rush, Barnes, Fowler vCash: 500 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Well - hopefully I won't get slaughtered on here... I'm a Liverpool fan through and through. I signed up on here not to wind you lot up, but to see what your fan-site is like and to hear what UTD fans think of various issues (many a time Liverpool fans put on our red-tinted-specs and it's sometimes refreshing to hear a different perspective). So anyway, I'm going to be on here from time to time, with no intention of making enemies, but only for some good banter and debate. Quite funny that the first topic I see here is about the YNWA anthem. I've heard Liverpool fans adopted it after Gerry and the Pacemakers did a cover of it in 1963, and that supposedly UTD and Celtic fans had sang it at once or twice before then. If that is the case, as it well may be (I hear Mario Lanza sang it for UTD after the munich disaster), it's no skin off my nose. What matters most isn't which set of fans sang it first, but who adopted it as theirs. Many a song has been sang by many fans around the world, but this song resonated enough with Liverpool fans for us to keep singing it over and over again until it is now practically synonymous with our club in footballing circles. We don't claim we wrote the song, and it doesn't matter who sang it first (even now, many clubs in Holland sing it). What matters is we've sang it to our team non-stop ever since, and it's now seen as ours by the media and even other teams' fans - Imagine what would happen if some poor idiot in the Stretford end started singing YNWA during a UTD match? I doubt very much that the gentlemen around him would join in and start singing along remembering the time Mario Lanza sang it... So yeah - Celtic fans may well have sang it before us, and Mario might have sang it for UTD before us, and Frank Sinatra might have had a hit with it in 1945, but today, in footballing circles, most people (at least in England) associate the song with Liverpool because we sing it with passion to our team WHETHER WE'RE WINNING OR LOSING (see Istanbul - we sang that song when we were 3-0 along with chanting we're going to win 4-3). It's that passion for the meaning of the song that means so much to Liverpool fans and players that has made this song ours - NOT who sang it first.