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'Every where we go people want to know
Who we are
So we tell them
We are the ?

we had joy we had fun we had

We are the nutters

We’ll see you all outside

We are mad, in the head, no one takes the scratching

Tower Power

Sea Sea Seasiders

Tangerine tangerine tangerine
 
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If we are going back as far as "We're from Back Henry Street, and we deny defeat, we are the boys who play in tangerine and white" days, then it is only fair to mention YNWA, which was sung on the Kop.

Even up to the early 1990's. See the YouTube video of the 1992 4th Division play-off Final at Wembley.

On 23rd May 1992, after 90 minutes, Blackpool and Scunthorpe all square at 1-1.

As the ref blew his whistle and extra time loomed, the tv cameras pan round showing the Blackpool fans, singing loudly, YNWA.
 
The rest of the everywhere we go -

So we tell them...
We are the Blackpool,
Mighty, mighty Blackpool...

Also, mid-1980s, Ten Men Went To Mow A Meadow. Funniest for me was away at Darlington (won 4-0? And Sam Ellis had to come out on the pitch afterward) but in an old wooden stand down one side of the pitch and the stand seemed to shake when everyone erupted "ten men..."

Weird trip up (with a Leeds fan getting kicked out - on a country road - the back of the removal van we were all piled in after stupidly trying to pick a fight), then getting lost on the way back and ending up I think, in Bradford somehow.
 
The singing of YNWA at Wembley vs Scunthorpe that Bispham Seasider mentions is well worth watching for anyone who has never seen it.Full of raw emotion.
Beaten on pens in the previous years final,Blackpool had battered Scunny but the game was somehow 1-1.As the Scunny keeper & defenders were wasting as much time as they could, just passing the ball between themselves, desperate for the game to go to a penalty shoot out and the Blackpool players were almost out on their feet ... the seaside army began to sing YNWA and as the whistle blew they carried on louder & louder .... As Bispham Seasider says, the TV camera switches from the pitch to the Blackpool fans with the commentator saying “Look at that! Just LOOK at that!!!”
 
I remember seeing a video on YouTube years ago which was literally just a clip of Blackpool fans singing YNWA at Wembley but was never able to find it again.

Due to Bispham_Seasider's pointer I was able to watch it again as Scunthorpe put the full game up! The link should start at the exact moment Blackpool are singing it:
 
dodgy_surname said:
'Every where we go people want to know
Who we are
So we tell them
We are the ?

we had joy we had fun we had

We are the nutters

We’ll see you all outside

We are mad, in the head, no one takes the scratching

Tower Power

Sea Sea Seasiders

Tangerine tangerine tangerine
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Sounds like an ad for ‘Now That’s What I Call Blackpool’

Can we add ‘Day Trippers’
 
Tangerinewiz said:
The singing of YNWA at Wembley vs Scunthorpe that Bispham Seasider mentions is well worth watching for anyone who has never seen it.Full of raw emotion.
Beaten on pens in the previous years final,Blackpool had battered Scunny but the game was somehow 1-1.As the Scunny keeper & defenders were wasting as much time as they could, just passing the ball between themselves, desperate for the game to go to a penalty shoot out and the Blackpool players were almost out on their feet ... the seaside army began to sing YNWA and as the whistle blew they carried on louder & louder .... As Bispham Seasider says, the TV camera switches from the pitch to the Blackpool fans with the commentator saying “Look at that! Just LOOK at that!!!”
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Just googled it to try find that exact footage. I seem to recall that it is/was included on one of the BFC history DVDs with the commentators words. Great to see the footage that Scunthorpe put online, but would be even better to watch and listen to the tv coverage. Forgot how loud it was too. Real shame that as fans we stopped singing YNWA and that nowadays fans seem to hate it, associating it only with Liverpool and Celtic (though of course there are other European clubs fans who sing it).

Reminds me also of the previous year, losing to Torquay and the post-match interview with the late, great Billy Ayre when he was asked about the day and he was utterly devastated.
 
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