Turning japanese I think I'm turning japanese Sakamoto and repeat
Was thinking of that myself. I think it was the vapours back in the 80s
Turning Japanese
I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
Sak- a- mo- to.
Repeat
Just need to get on board with the one everyone is singing
They are an indistinct mumble,
Here are the words:
When you score, you make the City sing, Saka on the wing, Sakamoto on the wing.
Every time you're on the ball we know, there's gonna be a goal, our superstar from Tokyo.
Other options mentioned:
I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese
Sakamoto
Two Unlimited No Limits would be easy and could be done in the style of the Yaya/Kolo Touré song:
(Hands in the air) Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Sakamoto
(Hands to the ground) Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Sakamoto
And this one from his former club, which works and is easy:
Saka-Sakamoto oh oh oh (repeat)
When you score, you make the City sing, Saka on the wing, Sakamoto on the wing.
Every time you're on the ball we know, there's gonna be a goal, our superstar from Tokyo.
Other options mentioned:
I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese
I really think so
I'm turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese
Sakamoto
Two Unlimited No Limits would be easy and could be done in the style of the Yaya/Kolo Touré song:
(Hands in the air) Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Sakamoto
(Hands to the ground) Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Saka, Sakamoto
And this one from his former club, which works and is easy:
Saka-Sakamoto oh oh oh (repeat)
Think our crowd would be much more on board with this one. The Haji Wright one is really straightforward and everyone joins in
Although saying that, the Going Loco down in Acapulco one is genius
Its even worse now I know the words. Nowhere near punchy enough and doesn't follow a simple enough rhyming structure and no repetition.
That was the video I was referring to. Just a mumble nothing coherent at all.
Its not about getting on board. The chant is fundamentally broken on a technical level and will never work.
I think people don’t realise the time lag in the ground either. What works in an away end simply doesn’t in a full ground because you get out of sync.
Yes it is. Where do you sit out of interest? I wonder if this is a B16 vs everyone else thing.
B16
Knew it. Come sit over the other side for a game and see if your opinion changes (don’t actually do this I wouldn’t trade B16 for anywhere)
Get your point completely. I don't love it, just when it's sung by a large number of people on repeat, it's not too bad.
Bunch of grown arse men arguing about a singy song for a fucking footballer. Grow up you virgins.
No, just nipple tassels in my stocking. Sick of being seen as a piece of meat TBH
Exactly, it just doesn’t work in a football stadium setting, it’s not punchy enough. You can probably belt out the “WE’VE GOT O’HARE, CALLUM O’HARE!!” chant and the “HAJI WRIGHT WRIGHT WRIGHT!!!” chant but there’s no way a whole stadium can get behind the “Tatsu on the wing” chant, there’s something wrong with the pitch/tone/melody or whatever, it’s just not belt-out-able.
I just think the bloke deserves a better chant tbh, best player on the pitch atm and only 20-30% of the fans can be arsed to sing his song because it’s a shit one.
20.
I think because the current chant is fairly quick (and long) the time it takes for sound to travel means that as you get further from singers corner it gets all jumbled up.
I’ve heard what sound like decent renditions of it. And when we’re away it’s sung well.
Agreed. Back in my day it was which firm we were going to beat up! Bunch of karaoke pansies these days…
yeah it sounds good in 15
it's maybe hampered as are other songs this year by what seems to be a less than normal take up of singing by blocks 17 and outwards from the corner
They’re all borrowed apart from LAST and arguably “We’ll Live and Die…”
the crazy thing is we have opportunities for original chants they just don’t catch on;
Hyam the one and only - was never used
Sheaf's the one - never caught on we apparently prefer a “he’s here” retread…
Whoa we’re Halfway there, Joel Latibeaudiere - never sung despite working well and the player not having an alternative.
Going loco - doesn’t work but the Celtic adaption has caught on despite the fact that Sakamoto is from Osaka not Tokyo (iirc).
American Boy - pretty certain someone here came up w a version of this for Haji Wright. Obvs we just adapted a 30 year old Arsenal chant about Ian Wright as it worked better.
That's the thing about the Going Loco song is it's not sung because nobody actually came up with a version that was actually good