Hark now hear, the South Bank sing!
Posted by Ben on 22nd February , 2010It can be much maligned and misunderstood, but I wouldn’t swap the South Bank for the world.
The Boothen, Brummie Road and Holte Ends all seem to grab the glory when the pundits are handing out the plaudits, while our famous home end gets given a ‘Molineux Factor’ tag and told to buck its ideas up.
I’ve never got it. There’s barely a home end that offers more strength in numbers when the chips are down, more noise, and more humour over the years and I think those boys in the Jack Harris should take a bow.
The South Bank
They had me laughing on Saturday, that’s for sure. And that’s no mean feat when I’m having to stomach Kevin Friend’s refereeing performance (which I ended up guffawing at as well.)
For some, it’s not enough that you pay top dollar and sing yourself hoarse for 90 minutes. When they sing they’re not PC, when they are anti-WBA they should be pro-Wolves, and when they gee-up the North Bank, they should stop being divisive.
Again, I don’t get it. I want our home end to make a right din, to ridicule overpaid, amoral, dirty, cheating rogues like John Terry. I was imploring them to dish it out to Ballack as well, particularly when the referee was so sycophantically pathetic in the gobby German’s company.
They didn’t disappoint. The chants were suitably crude and crass, and I loved every one of them.
As the South Bankers told John Terry that he should have shagged Cheryl Cole, the Billy Wright Stand started applauding – no mean feat indeed. The2-Step Dance Academy have sweated their spandex arses off for years for an ovation like that, let alone those half time imbeciles who keep betting £100 that they can score from 20 yards.
The TV crews can airbrush the highlights and the Premier League can keep telling us to respect their ‘select group’ of referees, but they can’t gag the South Bank boys, who are one of few familiar links to a by-gone era.
They are unapologetically partisan, fervently loyal, and guaranteed to give any cheating, rotten scoundrels the full force of their tongue.
Every opposition fan has heard of it, many players have feared it and Molineux would certainly be a quieter, less intimidating place without it.
Thank you South Bank.
Had me in stitches too on Saturday. Great support as ever from the south bank, just wish i could be stood in there.
Also, something i don’t understand, why don’t we shoot towards the south bank second half like Liverpool do the kop, Villa the Holte end etc?
Yeh ….Southbank was buzzing and really enjoyed singing….
Shame as i guess i must be an ‘ imbeciles ‘ as i missed with my 2nd attempt by a few inches…
I walked on the pitch with nothing….and left with nothing…
My only intention was to go all way if i could…
It’s a bit of fun..
Morley, I think Ben used an unfortunate turn of phrase there and definitely didn’t mean anything malicious.
Were you one of the guys trying on Sat?
Did you try and chip it in or were you the guy who tried to blast them all?
yes. apologies for the imbecile gag. it just strains my voice somewhat when i scream ‘take the money’ like a lunatic every week, only for the ball to bounce 15 times before it goes wide. rest assured, i didnt shout ‘imbecile’ on saturday
I was the tart wearing gloves
No seen so many try chipping it so i though lets just blast it.
It worked as i did not miss any, just fell short of a few inche’s.
Mr Smallman I’d forgotten what a way with words you have. Takes me back to the famous Emerald match reports!
the last one to try his luck was my cousins boy jack . he aint no imbecile . just a bit of fun . loved the singing too by the way . went home with the chelsea fans on the train , they loved the german bombers … quality … SOUTH BANK .. MAN OF THE MATCH
London, like I said to Morley, Ben was perhaps a bit sharp with his phrasing and I’m sure he didn’t mean to cause offence.
South Bank were definitely Man of the Match….after Guedioura.
Jeez Ben, you’re getting a bit of stick for the imbacile jibe
Ben, I was the ball that day and I take great offence…. blah, blah, blah…
Some people will take any opportunity to have a dig.
Excellent blog my friend, summed up the passion of the South Bank in a nutshell!
No need to worry about Doyle getting injured now as Keogh is back in training.
I’m so glad we didn’t waste any of Morgan’s millions by signing another striker in the window given this news!
Get real MM!
But on a brighter note (from the BBC website)…
Portsmouth move closer to entering administration
Portsmouth are bottom of the league and in dire financial straits
Portsmouth will go into administration by Friday unless a buyer is found for the Premier League’s bottom club.
If Pompey enter administration they will be docked nine points, but the winding up order against them due to be heard on 1 March will be suspended.
Just the two teams we have to finish above now!
How come it is nine points now?
Nice blog Ben, never really experience South Bank so good to know more about it
ta louie. and nathan. dont understand it being 9pts either. luton town got 20pts for entering administration twice and a further 10 from the FA as an additional punishment (despite owing a fraction of pompey) one rule for one it seems to me.
Its nine points because, as the south bank put it “Premier League, full of s*t!”
I thought it was 15 points? Either way they are dead in the water!
Ben, it has something to do with the fact there are only 38games in the PL and the points have a bigger impact
I always thought we attacked the North bank in the second half because it was exclusively wolves fans while the south bank was divided between home and away fans
If i was Wolves captain i would win the toss and switch the team around. The fact we don’t attack the south bank in the 2nd half is ridiculous. The Weasel said in the program a while back that it’s because the North Bank is our traditional ‘kop’ end. Well that may have been true 30-40 years ago but the day that stand was closed after the Bradford fire that ceased to be the case.
The fact the Albion were given the South Bank instead of the North Bank was ridiculous. The South bank to my mind IS the core of the club. These nutters will still be there come hell or high water.
I wonder if Warnock will put in some ‘disgraceful’ bids for Palace players when he takes over at QPR?
Mr Angry tw@t is already being linked with three Palace players.
I also wonder if the Premier League will be issuing Utd with a suspended fine for making five changes last night ahead of the Mickey Mouse cup final on Sunday!