Im getting fed up with hearing the same old songs week in week out at St Mary's its time we made up a few original songs.
Don't get me wrong im not slating anyone who sits/stands in the Northam/ Kingsland corner, on my travels this season or last in the Premier League I have rarely come across a club with a singing section as vocal or as big as ours, in some grounds you cant tell where their vocal fans are in some cases, from that point of view we can hold ourselves up against anyone in the country, including some of the so called big clubs.
But the dissapointment for me is the lack of original material, most of the songs belted out have been plagiarised from other clubs, you can slag off Manchester United fans for not coming from Manchester or even for the manufactured atmosphere at Old Trafford, one of the things that you cant slate them for though is the reppetoire of ditty's their travelling support will belt out with gusto.
Likewise Liverpool, apart from the obvious You'll Never Walk Alone they also have "Scouser Tommie" a song sung for nigh on 40 years now and the more recent Fields of Anfield Road" the tune stolen from Celtic but the lyrics most definately Liverpool.
I would suggst that anyone who is not familiar with the above songs cant really consider themselves an expert on football songs.
But it isnt just the Northern teams that get in on the act, West Ham & Chelsea in the capital also have an array of songs that put our "We are the Kingsland over here" to shame.
We have the numbers, we have the noise, all we need now is a few witty and quick thinking individuals to come up with some original Southampton themed lyrics to popular tunes.
Surely there are those out there that can do that and i dont just mean changing the odd word or two to suit ourselves, something truly unique and individual to our great club.
We have a headstart on the others in the fact that we already have our anthem but lets start to diversify from the norm, everyone sings most of our repetoire if its not Cortese whoah, it something else at virtually every other club.
There is much talk of the Southampton Way and that needs to be off the field as well, lets show that Saints fans are a different breed from other Premier Clubs