Thursday, March 12, 2009

You'll Never Walk Alone



If you have ever watched matches involving Celtic F.C., you would probably have noticed the crowd singing "You'll Never Walk Alone", a song which is synonymous with Liverpool. So which club actually first adopted the song as its anthem? And, apparently, Anfield and Celtic Park are not the only football grounds where you can hear the fans singing this song to the top of their voices.

After doing a bit of online research, here are some information regarding one of the most famous football anthems ever.

1)The song is also sung at football clubs around the world, where it is performed by a massed chorus of supporters on matchday; this tradition began at Liverpool F.C. in the early 1960s and later spread to several other clubs (WIKIPEDIA)

2)In England, the song's most famous outing was recorded in the early 1960s by Liverpool Merseybeat group Gerry & the Pacemakers, which reached #1 in the UK charts on the 26 October 1963 where it stayed for 4 weeks. It quickly became the club anthem of Liverpool Football Club [1] and is invariably sung by its supporters moments before the start of the game and when the team was doing well or doing badly to inspire them to victory. [2] The words You'll Never Walk Alone feature in the club crest. In recent years the fans of various other clubs have attempted to claim that they sang it first, but Liverpool has the stronger claims [3]. In Scotland the song was later adopted as the anthem of Glasgow football club Celtic.

The song is also sung by other association football crowds, where it is sung variably, such as:

England: Ipswich Town, Liverpool Football Club.
Austria: SK Rapid Wien.
Netherlands: FC Twente, Feyenoord Rotterdam and Ajax Amsterdam.
Germany: FC St. Pauli (also Borussia Dortmund and Alemannia Aachen).
Greece: AEK Athens FC (AEK fans adopted a Greek version of the song).
Japan: F.C. Tokyo.
Italy: Hellas Verona F.C..
Scotland: Celtic FC.

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5 comments:

  1. But The Reds were the first one to sing it. One thing you forgot to mention is how the song was first sung by the crowd at Anfield. The stadium's music director (or whatever the equivalent is) used to play top-ten billboard hits leading up to kick-off. Gerry and The Pacemakers' "You'll Never Walk Alone" top the chart for several weeks in a row, so it was the song that got played and sung moments before the kick-off. But when the song fell off the chart the Anfield crowds kept singing the song nonetheless and it has become a tradition since then. It gives me goosebumps all the time without fail.

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  2. Ada la...baca yg wikipedia punya..haha yep liverpool was the one who started it. thats y people memang associate that song ngan liverpool as it should be...lol

    damn...i wish man u ada anthem se-glorious macam tu.hahaha glory glory man united just doesnt do it for me...its more like a lagu budak2, or macam ala ala lagu patriotic..hahaha

    But of course, you'll never walk along was originally a pop song...that's y bunyi dia sedap..hahhaa

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  3. yeh im sick of celtic fans thinking they sang it first. Everything points to the fact it was liverpool bunch of idiots.

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