![]() ![]() And for anyone stuck supporting a team rooted in a league it feels too big for, it’s delightful proof that things really can get better. It’s a snapshot of an average club tasting glory and shamelessly hitting the high notes of a melancholy pop song in celebration. Chelsea fans ruthlessly singing club owner Roman Abramovic’s name as the UK government sanctions him – and by default, the club – sit on the sorrier side of the coin on the cheerier side – and a true tonic on days football fans haven’t painted themselves in glory – is Hibernian fans belting out The Proclaimers’ 'Sunshine On Leith' in full following their club’s victory in the 2016 Scottish Cup Final. The world of viral clips provides a shortcut to fame – or infamy. In the age of social media, though, chants follow players from club to club with ease, even jumping countries and language barriers. When his goalscoring ability faltered, the fans adopted it ironically. It’s perhaps this philosophy that helped inspire Sunderland’s haphazard signing of Will Grigg, who came with Will Grigg's On Fire – sung to the tune of Gala’s Freed from Desire, a viral moment of Northern Ireland’s Euro 2016 campaign – as a ready-made chant. The chant certainly fed Quinn’s icon status in the city. The full version of this track was released on July 13th, 2016 in the My Hero Academia Original Soundtrack. Sunderland's Sebastian Larsson celebrates in front of home fans after scoring against Wigan Athletic in 2011 SCOTT HEPPELL/AP HERO A is a track from the first season of the My Hero Academia anime that is occasionally used as an instrumental in the background of some scenes or sometimes a rap. Looking back it was a bit of a cultural moment.” , spend their time Latinizing and sing- ing English songs. It started as the story of us trying to get the chant going, but it became a music release that got to number 59 and which now lives in the Guinness book of hit singles. The Imperial Academy of Vienna has helped the men, generals, and nations now settle. ![]() We sold it locally though all the record stores and our fanzine sellers outside the matches. “Sunderland went on a really good run and we released it with just five games to go when promotion to the Premier League looked nailed on. He phoned me up and said ‘do you want a record deal?’” A friend at a record label was watching at home and he heard it on the TV. “A home game followed and it was live on Sky Sports Quinn scored and the whole north stand started singing the song. I remember we got a corner and Quinn was on the near post and he heard it and he looked over at us, baffled. “All the people on the bus sang the chant throughout the second half of the game – and others started joining in. Ian was one of those people who’d go to the match and start a chant. Releasing a single wasn’t in our mind at this point – we just wanted to get people singing it. ![]() I think we might have even printed out the lyrics for them. “We played Crewe Alexandra away on a midweek evening – our fanzine only ran one bus that night, and we thought ‘if we get them singing it, that’s 50 people’. The Fanzine, A Love Supreme Courtesy of Martyn McFadden Printing out lyrics ![]()
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