There are 11 beats to that percussive pattern – not the most obvious number for a cheerful surf ditty in standard rock’n’roll 4/4 time, though a few jazz drummers have been forced to tackle such a count, we guess. Watch Hibs’ fans on YouTube singing it after winning the Scottish Cup in 2016 to understand why.ĭon’t know this song? Never heard anybody singing it at the San Siro? That’s because it doesn’t have lyrics, apart from “Let’s go!” But it does have that handclap – the one you’ve warmed your palms with on chill nights at Pittodrie or the Liberty Stadium. The Proclaimers’ Craig Reid called it the best song he’d written, and Steve Lamacq’s BBC Radio 6 show saw it voted listeners’ favourite football anthem in 2018. Their 1988 album, Sunshine On Leith, doesn’t only contain the title track, played regularly at Hibs Cap In Hand mentions the team, as does Joyful Kilmarnock Blues, which mentions hitching 60 miles to see the Hibees win. The Proclaimers’ career is partly devoted to the joys of supporting Edinburgh club Hibernian. Best Football Songs: 25 Anthems For The Terraces 25: The Proclaimers: Sunshine On Leith (1988) So here we go, here we go, here we go… etc. In fact, we like them so much, we might just lose our ball control (not for the first time). This selection of tunes offers no fealty to the supporters who might chant them it’s just a list of the football songs we like. An Everton ditty is not beloved across Liverpool’s Stanley Park. A song in praise of England will not go down well in Scotland. There is always a caveat to whether you like a football song or not – it depends on who you support. But some football tunes are brilliant by any standards – and here are 25 of them. Think best football songs and you may think celebratory terrace chants or cobbled-together rhymes intended to antagonise a hated player.

Best football hype songs