How a football fan with his ear to the ground found chants to be a fine thing
Sports books for Christmas Scratching your head for a Christmas gift idea? Let The Sports Bookshelf guide you through the maze of possibilities to make the right choice. Here are a few of the more amusing sports books published this year: Who Are Ya? The talkSport Book of Football's Best Ever Chants , by Gershon Portnoi (Simon & Schuster) The excited buzz of a packed stadium is every bit as important as the competitors in making a sports event a genuinely big occasion and nowhere is that more true than football, where the crowd are participants as well as spectators. Indeed, football is unique in that not only do supporters cheer or boo in approval or otherwise, they turn their feelings, thoughts and observations into words and then set them to music, so that the action on the field comes with its own soundtrack, too. Over the years, British football fans in particular have developed a huge repertoire of songs and chants, from club anthems down to ditties aimed at i