Weirdly, this song was actually written about the team, and contains wholesome lyrics about pride, goals and ‘bells ringing merrily’.ĩ. Still, the way the fans work in ‘Chel-say!’ is good. Objectively one of the coolest tunes on the list, Chelsea’s pre-match anthem has historically been associated with skinheads, who weren’t so cool. Chelsea: ‘Liquidator’ by Harry J Allstars In the past, Cardiff have walked out to different versions of a mining folk song called ‘When The Coal Comes From The Rhondda: I’ll Be There’, which was later covered by a Welsh pop-rock supergroup called The Stand.ġ1. No points for originality, and only a few for atmosphere. Cardiff: ‘Right Here Right Now’ by Fatboy SlimĪ functional but uninspired choice that is used by many a team. St Mary’s seems to be mixing it up with some dancier stuff this season, but the south coast side are in no danger of relegation from the league of pre-match music.ġ2. Southampton’s second-best song about saints, this punk number from 1979 has been covered by U2 and Green Day. Southampton: ‘The Saints Are Coming’ by The Skids It also gets really quiet at some points - a bit like Old Trafford.ġ3. Man Utd: ‘This Is the One’ by The Stone RosesĬonfirmed banger, but lyrics about ‘a girl consumed by fire’ make this a weird one. Unfortunately, intimidating music sounds silly when your team is this bad.ġ4. Karl Jenkins’ unnerving string composition is presumably played to fire up Fulham’s board of directors - so they might sign more rubbish forwards like Ryan Babel. On the flip side, crowd chatter is better than ‘Z-Cars’. Maybe this isn’t normal, and a few forums have suggested that Fatboy Slim and Kasabian have been played at the ground, but I’m not spending any more time researching it. I spent five minutes watching laggy pre-match footage of Bournemouth-Watford, a lot of which was Troy Deeney chatting to a young mascot, only to find that the Vitality Stadium didn’t play any music at all. One of a handful of songs used at St James’ Park, this saxophone-heavy jam from the Dire Straits frontman was written for the film Local Hero. They should try the ‘Cantina Band’ song instead.ġ7. Tottenham are great, but they’re not scary, which makes this a pretty terrible choice of entrance music. The baddie music from the Star Wars prequels is played when Darth Maul kills Qui-Gon Jinn, and also when a mascot gets to hold hands with Son Heung-min. Tottenham: ‘Duel of the Fates’ from Star Wars Z-Cars was a BBC police drama in the 60s and 70s, and its jaunty theme tune is inexplicably used as walk-on music at two Premier League clubs.
The world of football walk-on music is a strange and illogical place, full of forgotten television theme songs, dad rock and wildly inappropriate film scores.īut these easy-to-recognise, hard-to-name tunes are an integral part of the Premier League experience. If the clouds have gathered above wherever Tottenham happen to be hosting football matches, it’s a song from the Star Wars franchise. If a storm is moving away from Newcastle at around 3PM on a Saturday, it’s actually soundtracked by a song by Mark Knopfler. Beyond YNWA and the other classics, there are some really weird ones.Īt the end of a storm, there’s a golden sky and the sweet silver song of a lark. That’s what Liverpool fans tell you as they sing ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ before kickoff, but is it true? Most Premier League stadiums play music as players walk out of the tunnel.