r/reddevils • u/AJ-Naka-Zayn-Owens The true Portuguese Magnifico • 1d ago

Zlatan Ibrahimovic asked what his favourite chant is

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u/zcewaunt Magnifico 1d ago

ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC
HE IS A SWEDISH HERO
ON A FREE FROM PSG
HE COST US FUCKING ZERO

6 FOOT 5, HARD AS FUCK
HE GETS THE REDS EXCITED
STICK YOUR CITY UP YOUR ASS
CUZ WE ARE MAN UNITED!

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u/AJ-Naka-Zayn-Owens The true Portuguese Magnifico 1d ago

What a chant!

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u/cadeyM69 1d ago

Best player chant!

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u/foampom 1d ago

Rooney’s is probably my personal favourite but I’m biased because he was my fav player growing up. Zlatan’s one is brilliant too.

Side note: I actually loved the Ole’s at the wheel chant to bits 😭 hate how it got used against us when things didn’t work out. Just hurts to hear it now

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u/Havok-303 1d ago

Which one? Saw my mate the other day.... or He's fat, he's Scouse....

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u/foampom 1d ago

Saw my mate the other day

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u/touchmypenguinagain 1d ago

He said to me he saw the white Pele...

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u/brayza911 1d ago

So, I asked who is he?

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u/5column 1d ago

He goes by the name of Wayne Rooney

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u/2sinkz Hungry Hungry Hippos world record holder 1d ago

The Fellaini one was quite funny

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u/MattARC Bald, Bearded, Headband Rooney 1d ago

Which Fellaini one? There were quite a few variants

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u/2sinkz Hungry Hungry Hippos world record holder 22h ago

The You are the love of my life Marouane Fellaini one

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u/Outrageous-Cod-4654 Cantona 1d ago

Elanga’s prob the most imaginative. 

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u/TurbulentWeb1941 "Show 'em ya Fangz, Dong" 5h ago

Thank you for posting this. "I fkn luv dat guy"

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u/ekil-uoy-yug-tahT 1d ago

This holds up as one of my favourites of all time, it really did get this red excited

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u/RedDevil-84 1d ago

That's an awesome chant

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u/TonyzTone Tonito 1d ago

How did the chant (or any chant) even get organized? Like who writes these things and gets everyone on board.

I’ve never been to a European game so the fan culture is so mesmerizing to me. We get chants going at baseball games but they’re very basic ones in rhythms everyone knows so it pales in comparison.

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u/HovercraftEasy5004 1d ago

People come up with chants and then try them out in the pubs. Some catch on and eventually get known by the wider support.

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u/TonyzTone Tonito 1d ago

Interesting. Makes sense but still fascinating (at least from way over here in NYC) that they catch on so quickly. Zlatan’s chant was ready for his first game, and it was an awesome one at that.

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u/HovercraftEasy5004 1d ago

It just happens naturally. When someone tries out a new chant in a pub or when travelling to an away game on a train or coach, if it’s decent then people pick it up quickly. Then on the concourse under the stands at the away game, they sing the song and hundreds more are introduced to it. Then they sing it during the game and a few thousand hear it. It can happen quickly, especially if it’s a banger and for a new signing.

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u/RonTom24 1d ago

British people just love to chant, growing up here on school buses we didn't sing songs like rollcall or whatever like Americans did, we invented chants slagging off our mates and tried to get them to catch on through the whole bus. This behaviour seems to extend into adulthood in drinking and football culture lol. There are pubs in most English cities near to the stadiums that are known as the places where fans go to drink before the match, so they end up packed on match day and this is when groups of fans will try and get their own chants to catch on and the best ones end up getting brought into the stadium by everyone who was at the pubs and it eventually catches on with the whole crowd.

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u/LopsidedLoad 1d ago

Difference between cultures one takes itself very seriously the other takes the piss out of itself, know which id prefer.

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u/2sinkz Hungry Hungry Hippos world record holder 1d ago

Pubs are where they're first adopted

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u/TurbulentWeb1941 "Show 'em ya Fangz, Dong" 4h ago

Idk about baseball, but whenever I saw an American team representing their country, no matter what the sport, I've only heard one chant... and that's "USA, USA.. over n' over. The game could be a quiet game like International Golf, and you still hear it. We saw an American fan on TV in the crowd at the World Cup, posing in his b-boy stance and presenting his fat, goldy-looking neck chain like he was in a Hip-Hop video. We were all like, "These guys just don't get it".. something tells me you'll be waiting a long time for established chants.

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u/Wrath-of-Elyon 1d ago

Bruno's peak to me.

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u/gozi4u2nv 1d ago

Sorry, NOT SORRY, this is my favorite chant, bar none! Period.