Why is Delilah Stoke City song?
“It all began at an away game in Derby (in April 1987) where we were all in a pub and the police asked us not to sing a song with swear words on. So we put Delilah on the jukebox, and I got up on a table and started singing it. We sang it in the ground and it just went from there.”
What is Stoke City song?
Has there ever been a weirder football club anthem than Stoke City’s Delilah? The 1968 Tom Jones hit is a creepy murder ballad about an insane voyeur who knifes his cheating lover to death. As football songs go, it’s hardly ‘Here We Go, Here We Go, Here We Go’.
Could they do it on a cold night in Stoke?
He said Messi would struggle to score against a Stoke team in their home ground on a “cold winter night” – figurative language used to showcase the bleak and ominous English weather, especially for those playing in forward positions – with the likes of snow, hail, rain or even a combination of all three a possibility ( …
Did Tom Jones stab Delilah?
He waits outside all night, and then confronts her in the morning, only to have her laugh in his face. He stabs her to death, and then waits for the police to come break down the door and arrest him.
Who sang my my my Delilah?
Tom Jones
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When did Stoke City start singing the Delilah song?
Has there ever been a weirder football club anthem than Stoke City’s Delilah? Stoke fan and roofing contractor Anton Booth claims to be the man responsible for starting his club’s Delilah tradition, which he says began before an away match at Derby on April 11, 1987.
Where did the song ” Delilah ” come from?
The history of the song was sent in from one of our members Harry Carr, which is very interesting: As a Stoke city supporter for many years I bet other fans wonder why we sing Delilah. Well it began 20 odd years ago when we got relegated to the old division 1.
What’s the Stoke City chant on the phone?
Chant A classic football chant and makes a great Stoke City ringtone for the mobile phone. Alway’s singing for ’em away and at fortress Britannia. Trying to intimidate the refereee to send em off. Foe the Vale scum. Top Stoke marksmen.