It’s been a while since we’ve had one of these, this one I can’t remember much before the late 90’s, and is generally used as a ‘put down’ I suppose. It’s ubiquitous amongst Forest and just about every other set of fans I’ve encountered, and I find it ever-so-slightly odd and a bit banale (although I must admit, unlike the ‘Easeh Easeh Easeh!’ chant, I have been known to join in with it).
Imagine that the opponents had a near miss, or a disallowed goal – so the almost-cheer goes up, followed by the sullen silence, cue us to unleash:
“Who are ya?
Who are ya?
Who are ya?”
Coupled with pointing gestures. Why do we do that? It’s abundantly obvious who we’re playing – you hear their name before the game, it’s on the scoreboard, your programme, you saw it on the fixture list when you were checking if there was a game that day… it’s a bizarre one! I’m sure there must be a more witty riposte to a near-miss, or a feeble chant from opposing fans than this!
Filed under: Strange chants
Slow news day NFFC?
How d’you guess?
Has been a bit quiet on the Forest front today!
Perhaps if the opposition were to respond with:-
“You should know”
or
“Are you stupid?”
it would stop this chant?
I guess it kind of counters the ‘You’re not famous anymore’ by implying they were never famous anyway?
And I know the Trent End chant it after we score sometimes.
We used to do it whenever we got a double-decker school bus – top deck to bottom deck or vice versa!
Ha ha… I guess they are saying (or at least tring to say) is “who are you? why are you even here.”
I guess
LOL
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Yeah, I can think of a better one.
Sit Down Shut Up
Sit Down Sut Up