West Stand Man So far as Tom Hark is concerned I have stated my case often enough. Love it or hate it the fact is that as soon as it strikes up there is a VAST majority of the crowd joining in. It then gets slated on HNA by the minority fun Gestapo.
So far as the clappers are concerned - I concede that I have no evidence yet. I am basing my presumption of the usual response to this type of thing - which is for most people to join in (at least to begin with) and the vocal minority to spout on about how it isn't what football is all about. The photos of old style rattles say it all to be honest. Real football fans (whatever that might constitute) have used all sorts of odd noise generators throughout time. They went out of favour during the worst of the hooligan era in the 70s and that had nothing to do with them being unpopular with fans - just that the potential use of them as a weapon was somewhat frowned on.
The club is pandering to the probabale majority - not a bad marketing plan to be honest. They mat have it wrong this time - we'll see - but don't knock them for trying.
So what you said wasn't actually true then?
As for Tom Hark, I'm not a fan of it, but then I do join in when they play it because it's at a time when I obviously want to be celebrating and they've turned it into part of that. A lot of it is down to taking the piss out of the whole idea of music aided celebration, part of it is because it gets the away fans taking the piss out of us and you have to stand up for your own.
I think 'some' of the joining in for things like this and the Bring It On debacle is a similar thing. People don't want to make the club look more pathetic than it is with these things so join in out of sympathy more than a desire for the club or orchestrate atmospher!
