You obviously didn`t see the Italian rugby team and 80000fans sing the Italian national anthem before playing the All Blacks at the San Siro Stadium in Milano last year.　I was there and it was fantastic!

The sky was big and empty
My chest filled to exploooooooooode!!!!
I yelled my insides out at the sun
At the wide open road

it’s a wide open road, it’s a wide open road,
Then it’s a wide open road
It’s a wide open road
And now you can go any place
that you ever wanted to gooooooooooooooo!!!!

Magic, and uniquely Aussie.

In all serriousness Grande Roma

Have to agree about Wilko

Peter Wilkins saying “Yes Oh yes Ive never seen such unbridled emotion from an Australian crowd. Absolute Delirium!!

For me this is pure gold as Wilkins has seen his fair share of sporting highlights and thinks this tops them all!!

I’ve always liked Peter Wilkins as a radio commentator in any sport. For me ABC radio do it the best. Watching that clip, it is the kind of stuff that can make a grown man cry. I think it’s about as good as it gets. Apparently Guus used highlights of the game to motivate his Russian side in the 2008 Euros. Guus seems like a man of steel, but I’m sure even that game and the emotion of it, would be etched in his memory for life.

The best youtube I know of the night is Reverse the Curse” aside from naming JW as captain of the 74 side he gets it about right. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUIP6STNxSA

The Peter Wilkins I had heard on before but never with the goals… good stuff

Cheers Tifosi FC, that clip is awesome!

Never walk alone is great

Together…. not so great. Didn’t gel very well.

Recently i found a you tube clip of the radio commentary of the game by peter wilkins and andy harper. The commentary is put with the tv images. I think Peter Wilkins is fantastic in it and his last words best summed up that evening !!! Absolute delirium indeed!!!!

Check it out at :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPEJYRXJkGA&feature=PlayList&p=B415DE78B3A438B4&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=34

Ya that too after the match was one great hug and kiss…. my wife was with me and this young lady behind me early 20′s grabbed me gave me a hug hug and a huge kiss AHHHHHHH and the booing during the Uruguayan national Anthem … Kool said it was the best home crowd he has ever played before in fact I think they all the players that night have said the same…

I will put up a youtube latter of the night..

Also love PF and love fearless ….

As an aside I was in a clients car the next afternoon still well over the limit I think and he had it on 2UE, and Steve Price who had recently arrived from Melbourne and a hater of football… he was at the match and gave one of the best intro’s to his show and said he has never been to anything in sport or in anything else that came close to the atmospgeric that night …. He said he actually understood what football was about and althrough he was a Richmond Supporter nothing came close to a close international in a meaning match… just added to the feeling..

and in the Batmobile limo no less.

Redb

The other things I remember were not being able to hear the Uruguayan national Anthem because of the Aussie cheering and perfect strangers running around hugging and kissing other perfect starngers when the penalty went in and the atmospheric mass sigh of releif that we finally qualified again.

Ben,
Love Pink Floyd, Love Fearless – the FFA should get someone to do something similar for the A-League ads.

On a serious note though, hearing the crowd get into the music, is what makes Wales special.

AHhhhhhhh that night six mates went.

How can I explain… Homebush is and all seat stadium no one sat down, everyone stood all match… we screamed we booed we bled together … Kool was magic that night and I was so impressed with his touch, guil, …. but to the match as one the crowd every person independent of each other to cheer Australia home.

Between me and me five mates we all in our early 50′s having played together for yonks …. we knew as did the crows all the football chants all the hand movenment …….. very clever JON in offering the football players the first pick of the tickets because you got a real football crowd not a cricket crowd come along to watch clap and cheer good play.

After the match the fire works, the songs no one would leave 45 mins latter they threaten to turn off the lights told us the trains would all go as would the buses still we stayed no one wanting to leave. We six when to the pub at about 1:00 where we drank and sung with the rest in the pub till about 7:00. Then went to work still in our Socceroos shirts and still pissed I guess as well …. everyone forgave us evern a client who came in at 9:00 to find me still singing …

Ben unles you where there and suffered the pain it is near impossible to describe that night..

Thanks for the link..I did enjoy it. Have you heard the song ‘Fearless’ by Pink Floyd..they cleverly moulded the Kop singing You’ll Never Walk Alone in the background..then at the end of the song it’s just the roar of LIVERPOOL. Brilliant!

Best match I have been to was the 2005 WCQ I was one of the 80, 000 that sung that night to this day the my best sporting moment ever.

On club songs as you said the Kop are hard to beat, … IMO the best You will never Walk Alone ever .. enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nfFi-_Hb2A

WAITER

Swing low sweet Chariot is and African slave song – anyone else find it ironic the English use it?

The rugby crowds at Murrayfield and Cardiff Arms Park (despite there being a bloody big stadium on the site, it’s still the Arms Park) get the vote for me. Their doing something right if the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, while sitting on the couch, under a blanket, at 2am in Australia!!

And someone mentioned God Defend New Zealand before; I don’t mind admitting that I have to consciously stop myself mouthing the words!! I guess I’ve got to know it a fair bit since the Tri-Nations started..

Here is one that could be, in fact should be , but isnt.

The BRITISH LIONS do not have a rugby anthem.

DANNY BOY

Maybe The Wallabies could nick it. If England can utilise a negro spiritual
us Aussies could give DANNY BOY a home. (ofcourse it would work)

I must say I also love when TV networks use soundtrack music to promote a sporting event. State of Origin ran with the Gladiator campaign when it came out. The Gladiator soundtrack just goes perfectly with any sporting action, especially the song ‘Now we are free.’

There’s also been some good Olympic music over the years.

Aussie Golfer..Yeah they do like showing the scoreboard a bit too much. And what’s the go with only showing three hours of golf? That always annoys me.

I don’t think anyone’s mentioned GLORY, GLORY TO SOUTH SYDNEY? The Rabbitohs faithful belted that out last weekend. Good song from the most passionate fans in rugby league.