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Sweet Caroline - please stop!

137 replies

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 31/07/2022 20:19

It's got zero to do with football or sport, please sing something else. John Barnes rap is preferable, really.

OP posts:
Lullabies2Paralyze · 31/07/2022 20:22

It’s worse when the adverts latch onto the songs then it sticks around for ages after until they make a new advert

on the subject of annoying songs….Kate bush running up that hill swamped anything on YouTube after being on Stranger Things….I was quickly over that song too haha

Seashor · 31/07/2022 20:34

I love it!!!

Soubriquet · 31/07/2022 20:34

Ba ba ba

CoffeeWithCheese · 31/07/2022 20:36

It's being a bit rough for me - my nan was buried to it!

user1471464218 · 31/07/2022 20:36

The reason I want it to stop is that it was Northern Ireland's football song before it was England's.

Igotjelly · 31/07/2022 20:36

In terms of football its a Rangers FC song 😂

Ontomatopea · 31/07/2022 20:37

It's a bit of a weird song unless one of them is called Caroline?

maddiemookins16mum · 31/07/2022 20:58

Meh, it’s harmless enough. Better than Vindaloo.

Trinity65 · 31/07/2022 21:12

ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 31/07/2022 20:19

It's got zero to do with football or sport, please sing something else. John Barnes rap is preferable, really.

Totally agree with you OP

Bubblebubblebah · 31/07/2022 21:13

Ha! That's how you can get Brit count abroad. Paly it😂

ShirleyJackson · 31/07/2022 21:13

The ‘SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!’ bit makes me cringe myself inside out.

cbatopainttheshed · 31/07/2022 21:15

I've always hated the song, just sets my teeth on edge. As does dancing queen.

SnowyPetals · 31/07/2022 21:15

Swing Low Sweet Chariot had nothing to do with rugby until it did. Things change.

MerryMarigold · 31/07/2022 21:17

My niece thought it was the national anthem 😂. She's 13 🤦‍♀️.

MarieIVanArkleStinks · 31/07/2022 21:20

I can't disagree. It's dire.

Sparklingbrook · 31/07/2022 21:32

I hate it too. I usually listen to Greg James in the morning but he says on IG he'll be playing SC 'every hour on the hour' tomorrow. Sad

Prairie21 · 31/07/2022 21:39

Agreed, irritating AF. Also agree with @cbatopainttheshed and dancing queen!

DillDanding · 31/07/2022 21:42

Both of our kids went 'gah! Not Sweet Caroline!'

It's bloody awful.

2anddone · 31/07/2022 21:51

My dd came through when she heard it playing to ask if someone had drunk dialled the group chat as apparently it's sung at all parties we go too GrinWink

Caterinaballerina · 31/07/2022 21:56

If it’s good enough for Howard Wolowitz and Amy Farrah Fowler then it’s ok with me.

FirstFallopians · 31/07/2022 21:56

user1471464218 · 31/07/2022 20:36

The reason I want it to stop is that it was Northern Ireland's football song before it was England's.

Yes!

It didn’t make any sense when “we” used it, why has England co-opted a song that doesn’t even make sense?!?

Delighted for the Lionesses btw. Really hope it gives women’s football across all the home nations a massive boost.

gingercat02 · 31/07/2022 21:58

user1471464218 · 31/07/2022 20:36

The reason I want it to stop is that it was Northern Ireland's football song before it was England's.

^^^This

Pinkandgreentrousers · 31/07/2022 22:29

I bloody hate it, makes my ears bleed!!

Dajeeling · 31/07/2022 22:30

Totally agree, why has this suddenly been latched onto football?

W00p · 31/07/2022 22:30

What has it even got to do with football? It's a bloody terrible song.