“Fearless” is one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs, due in part to the embedded (football) field recording of Liverpool Kop fans singing the Rodgers and Hammerstein composition “You’ll Never Walk Alone”. So I was enthralled by this On The Media story about a football fan who spent the last 5 years recording, collecting and archiving over 20,000 football chants.

On The Media (March 23, 2012)
An Archive of Soccer Fans Chants
Guest: Michael Dennis Hosted by: Bob Garfield

The impulse to archive isn’t restricted to dying languages or ancient relics. Sometimes you archive something simply because you love it. Fanchants.co.uk is a repository of more than 20,000 soccer fan chants from all over the world. It started as a business and remains one – but it’s become a labor of love. Bob speaks with Michael Dennis, a co-founder of Fan Chants.

A short list of chants that Michael Dennis has collected:

• Build A Bonfire Song
• Can You Here The Wednesday Sing?
• We Pay Your Benefit
• We’re Doing The Huddle When Rangers Die
• Stickin’ To The Union
• Who’s That Knocking On The Window
• North End Noise
• Save The Snail
• Time For Your Sandwiches
• Speak F*cking English
• Poor Scouser Tommy
• We All Love Leeds, We Hate Ken Bates
• Corinthians My Life
• Dirty Northern B*stard
• Time For Your Sandwiches
• Boing, Boing
• Pogo If You Love The Toon Song