Get Chanting and Win!
If you are a football fan, Get On is calling on you to show off your love of the beautiful game by creating a new football chant for your club.
As ex-England footballer, World in Motion rapper and football chant judge John Barnes says, "Chants are a great way of getting behind your team and can make a real difference to players on the pitch."
So why not show off your creative skills and enter this year’s competition? The best chants will win some ‘back of the net’ prizes supplied by our partners. Once again, John will be judging this year’s competition along with football chant expert Ian McMillan:
- The Prize: 10 x pairs of tickets to Coca-Cola Championship, League One or League Two matches in the 2009-10 season.
Enter the competition now
You can enter by writing your chant or, for the first time, you can send us a video of you and your friends performing live. Click here for instructions on how to upload your chant video.
The closing date for the competition is 30th December 2009. You can enter as many different football chants as you wish until that date – they just need to be new and created by you!
Good luck – and happy chanting!
Full terms and conditions of the competitions.
How to Enter
This year you can enter your chant in a number of different ways:
By uploading a video…
- Enter online at www.youtube.com
- Enter your log-in details (you will need a You Tube account, click here to find out how to get one).
- Click on 'Upload Video' and choose the file that you want to download.
- Give the video a title and a short description.
- The next step is very important - you will be asked if you want to tag your video – add in the tag "Get On Football Chants". This is an important step because when the Get On team search for entries to upload to the Get On Football Channel this step will ensure they find your entry.
- Choose a category and make the video public, if you don't make it public we won't be able to find it.
- Once the Get On team has reviewed the video to ensure it is appropriate, you will then receive an email from us asking for contact details to complete your competition entry.
Click here for more advice on uploading your own video.
Or in writing…
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Some Other Tips from Get On
- Pick your tune! You may already have favourite football chants which you already know well - so think about using these tunes as the basis for your new chant. Popular tunes are 'Guantanamera', 'Quartermaster's Store' and 'Conga', although you can also get inventive using the music from pop songs
- Think of a good topic. Some of the funniest chants are those that are topical - about a new player on your team, or in response to another team's favourite chant. How about something to inspire your team at an upcoming match? Remember to keep it clean - offensive chants just aren't funny - but that doesn't mean you can't be witty
- Write around three to four lines on this topic - using repetition or rhymes to make it catchy. While injured recently, Fernando Torres got a real boost from hearing a new chant created by his Liverpool fans, which is sung to the tune of 'Animals Went in Two by Two':
His armband proved he was a red, Torres, Torres
You'll never walk alone it said, Torres, Torres
We got the boy from sunny Spain, he gets the ball he scores again
Fernando Torres, Liverpool No.9
- Test your lines by practising the chant out loud - and make any changes you need to make it sound chant-perfect!
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Top Tips for Writing Football Chants
A good football chant is short, simple and memorable so it can be easily learned and sung by the crowd.
It's amazing how a new chant can travel round a football ground if the rhythm works, it makes you laugh and sounds great when sung really loud!
Here are some tips from chant expert Ian… plus what he'll be looking for in the winning chants:
- A good chant is simple and memorable
- Rhyme helps, repetition helps, and rhythm is essential
- There's no point writing a complex chant because it has to be picked up instantly by thousands of people who've got their mouths full of pie! I'm looking for something that can be sung on a wet Tuesday evening during a nil-nil draw which will magically turn it into a 4-3 thriller…
- And finally… always say the chant out loud once you've created it to check it sounds great - try testing it out at a match to see if you can get others to join in!
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The Winning Chant
Football chants need to be memorable, short and rhythmic so that they can be easily learned and sung by the crowd. The best chants are the ones that get the crowd going and are performed with all of the love of the game.
Last year we received hundreds of entries. Our seven finalists won tickets from Coca Cola and the opportunity to compete in a live chant off in front of John Barnes and Ian McMillan.
The winner on the day was Terry Cockell, who received a signed England shirt and the opportunity to record their chant with John Barnes. His chant was about his team Southend United FC to the tune of The Wombles theme tune.
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Our Favourite Chants
Every week we will be showing you some of the great chants that we have already received.
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Competition Terms & Conditions
August-December 2009
- The competition is open to UK residents aged 16 or over, other than employees of the Learning and Skills Council, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, its agencies or their families.
- There are 10 sets of prizes to be allocated to winners:
- 10 sets of 2 tickets to see the Coca-Cola Championship, League One and League Two club of the winner’s choice, during the 2009/2010 season*
There are 2 tickets maximum per prize winner
*Championship, League One and League Two tickets are provided courtesy of Coca-Cola. Winners may request their preferred club for the tickets and the Promoter will aim wherever possible to honour.
- The prize is subject to availability.
- The Promoter reserves the right to substitute a prize of equivalent or greater value if this is necessary for reasons beyond its control.
- Entries must be submitted online via You Tube, via the online entry form at www.direct.gov.uk/geton or by post to the following address: Get On Campaign Office, c/o Fishburn Hedges, 77 Kingsway, London WC2B 6SR. Contact details and all other mandatory fields must be completed, and all entries to arrive or be submitted online by 5pm on 31 December 2009.
- Entries submitted via You Tube will be reviewed for suitability before being uploaded to the Get On Football Chants You Tube channel. The Get On team will contact individuals via their You Tube account for contact information to complete their entry.
- Entries submitted via You Tube must be tagged with "Get On Football Chants" and made public to ensure they are valid.
- The winners will be chosen by a panel of judges including Ian McMillan and John Barnes, the 2008-9 winner and selected on a range of criteria including originality, creativity, use of language, humour and topicality. Winners will be notified by the Promoter by telephone or email.
- Entries submitted containing any material considered to be obscene, including but not restricted to racism, homophobia, sexism or offensive language and swearing, will be disregarded and disqualified from the competition. The Judges’ decision as to what constitutes offensive language is final.
- Chants entered into the competition must be new and the original work of the person submitting the entry. By submitting a chant to the competition entry, entrants are attesting their chant is original and wholly their own work. Entries will be evaluated in good faith, based on this assertion, however the Promoter reserves the right to disqualify any chant felt to be copied or plagiarised from elsewhere.
- The Judges’ decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into. Entries that do not comply in full with any of these rules may be disqualified.
- A list of prize winners may be obtained by written request by sending an SAE to Get On Campaign Office, c/o Fishburn Hedges, 77 Kingsway, London WC2B 6SR on or before the 31st March 2010.
- The winner will be required to participate in publicity events after the draw and by entering the promotion acknowledge their consent to take part in publicity and for their name, photo and chant to be published where required.
- No cash alternative will be offered for the prize.
- By entering this competition you hereby transfer all copyright to the Promoter and confirm that you will from time to time sign all documents necessary to confirm such transfer.
- The Promoter reserves the right to alter, amend or foreclose this Competition without prior notice in the event that unforeseen circumstances make this unavoidable.
- Contact information submitted via You Tube, online and by post will be used solely for the purposes of the Competition, and will securely erased on the Competition’s termination. The Learning and Skills Council and its agencies will not pass on contact information to any third parties.
- The Promoter is the Learning and Skills Council, Cheylesmore House, Quinton Road, Coventry CV1 2WT.
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