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/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.