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utter crap - even celtic's history acknowledges that their fans adopted YNWA after us ...... as for hereford their fans weren't singing songs back then like i have already said ........ in fact very few did at all which is why the Kop gained such worldwide fame

Gerry Marsden famously admitted on the south bank show, handing a recording of YNWA to Shankly before he released it citing it's motivational effects on other teams. The Song had already been adopted by Celtic fans and Marsden decided to release it on hearing it sang by them and being requested to by a disabled Celtic fan.

You can go to Wiki and see that the author of the page on there is clearly a liverpool fan who cannot accept the clubs anthem was first someone elses.

You can go read the Guardian online, the sports writer on there makes no conclusion as to whether the song was first sang by LFC or Celtic fans becoz they started to sing it so close together in time.

But, stories have it that the kop only adopted the song after the song had been at no1 for many weeks. The DJ within the club would play the weekly top ten before the match, YNWA spent that long at no1 that the first week it fell away, the Liverpool supporters sang it anyway.

Shankly took note and made it a custom.

What most people negate to mention tho is, Hereford United supporters were singing the song long before. The song originally came from a musical and there was some connection with the writers and Hereford, cant remember what it was but I had it proved to me by a Celtic Fan when I was serving overseas, and he showed me a Book that proved me wrong.

the only thing you are forgetting is that no clubs adopted anthems as such before YNWA was adopted by liverpool - what you are talking about is a few fans singing songs like at newcastle with blaydon races etc ...... none of those were adopted as anthems unlike liverpool adopting YNWA - you are talking about a completely different thing altogether ....... btw considering historians state that the first time YNWA was sung at a football stadium was old toilet in a memorial service long after you are talking about it being sung at hereford i find it difficult to accept your claim hereford fans sung it first, even disregarding me mate saying he has never heard it there before it made the charts ...... but if you can show me a source to back your claim i would be very interested to see it

ps i never read wiki its a crock of [oops]

Agreed.

Holy crap........Stuey agreed on something!!!!!